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The announcement that the Environmental Protection Agency was scrapping Obama-era rules designed to protect small streams and wetlands made me recall a misty morning this spring on the Potomac River above Georgetown. I brought a striped…

The GOP's anti-urban agenda takes many forms, but it always tracks back to wealthy whites' fear of losing power.

The 11th Street Bridge Park in Washington, D.C.—a planned repurposing of the retired 11th Street Bridge across the Anacostia River between the East of the River neighborhoods and Capitol Hill into a vibrant city park—will connect…

A go-go music revival is celebrating Washington D.C.'s historic black culture and helping to fuel a movement for racial and economic justice.

Mark Plotkin, an impish D.C. radio commentator and statehood activist who helped return Washington’s historic city hall to municipal control in the 1990s, and who later spearheaded a campaign to get the slogan “Taxation Without…

Amen, protesters. Washington was in complete gridlock Monday thanks to marchers, shouters, interlopers and even a sailboat plopped in the middle of an intersection for the morning commute.

We’ll never see the likes of Mark Plotkin again.

When Brianne Eby goes to work, she bikes.

Climate change protesters shut down several intersections from Capitol Hill to downtown Washington during Monday’s morning rush, the latest of rallies around the world designed to force policymakers to respond to Earth’s rising…

The company offers scooters in the city and owns the operator of Capital Bikeshare

Beginning as early as 7 AM, climate activist protestors succeeded in snarling traffic.

An affiliate of Normandy Real Estate Partners has sold 950 L'Enfant Plaza SW for nearly $104.6 million, or nearly $331 per square foot, to an affiliate of Boyd Waterson Asset Management, according to D.C. property records.

A Metropolitan Police Department report describes a violent incident near Audi Field after Sunday’s D.C. United Game, which reportedly involved Washington fans and West Coast-based supporters of the Seattle Sounders.

That’s according to an official survey the city conducted over the summer

Whether it was a confronting Comcast over a confusing cable bill, loudly weighing in on the performance of George Washington University’s basketball team during its games, or expressing righteous indignation over D.C.’s lack voting rights…

The large-scale redevelopment of the Rhode Island Avenue Shopping Center is continuing to spark additional projects in the neighborhood.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of downtown Washington with a single goal: Bring traffic to a total, grinding halt in the nation’s capital.

The D.C. government found and remediated elevated lead levels at 17 playgrounds across the District, the city announced to residents last Friday. The findings come after the Department of General Services closed three playgrounds in early…

To achieve her goal of adding 36,000 housing units to the District by 2025, Mayor Muriel Bowser said the city will need to have difficult conversations.

Olivia Kerrigan begins in-class discussions about climate change by asking students to tell her what they know about the subject, what they don’t know, and what they’d like to learn more about.