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Happy Thursday. At the first House hearing on DC statehood in 26 years, Republican detractors brought criticisms ranging from constitutional arguments down to the nitty-gritty.

We’re finally getting more details on the Hakan Ilhan-owned restaurant that will replace the former Morton’s The Steakhouse restaurant on Prospect Street NW in Georgetown.

They will demonstrate at one of the city’s most dangerous intersections

It’s that time of year again: PARK(ing) Day, an annual event that makes the District come alive with decorative pop-up parks in parking spaces, returns from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 20.

The case for DC statehood is one that has been well-documented over the last decade. But with the first House of Representatives hearing on DC Statehood since 1993 in recess, UrbanTurf decided to take a look at some of the arguments being…

While Democrats at the D.C. statehood hearing sought to make the proceedings about the more than 700,000 District residents without full voting rights, Republicans on the Oversight Committee were interested in focusing it on a handful of…

With action around climate change planned for Friday and next week, here’s what the D.C. area can expect, in terms of traffic and responses from local school systems.

Callie Stapp can literally see the impact of climate change on her office walls. Stapp is the curator of collections for Gadsby’s Tavern Museum, a historic 18th-century brick and wood building in Alexandria. “When the boards move and pop…

The eight majestic willow oaks flourished for decades. Kids played hide-and-seek among their trunks. They shaded nearly a hundred years of first kisses, long talks and lazy afternoons. And they were the silent witnesses to the drug deals,…

The protests are timed to take place around the U.N. Climate Action Summit

An affiliate of Bethesda-based Stonebridge Associates and Walton Street Capital sold One Constitution Square in NoMa Wednesday for nearly $141.8 million after leasing the last big block of vacant space they got back from the federal…

Republicans kicked off a House committee hearing on D.C. statehood Thursday by calling the District too corrupt and financially dependent on the federal government to be the 51st state.

For the neighborhoods immediately east of the Anacostia River in Northeast, environmental challenges are hardly a new phenomenon.

The first congressional hearing in more than 25 years on whether D.C. should become the nation’s 51st state is underway, and began on Thursday with supporters claiming that the proposal has more support than it has had in a generation.

Among the complaints: roaches, mice, dirty carpets, and burnt out lights