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D.C. restaurateur Hakan Ilhan — whose restaurants include Mirabelle, Ottoman Taverna and Al Dente Italian — is opening Brasserie Liberté in the former Morton’s The Steakhouse location on Prospect Street in Georgetown.

Between planned unit development appeals and other hiccups and shelvings, it has been nearly three years since UrbanTurf last updated the large residential developments approximately northeast of North Capitol Street and Rhode Island…

The Washington Nationals and its concessionaire, Levy Restaurants, have partnered with a Rockville nonprofit to donate excess food from Nationals Park to people in need.

The District already offers some financial assistance to residents struggling to pay rent. Now your local barber shop could be next.

On a steamy summer day in late July, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser stood alongside a group of shovel-wielding developers to break ground on a massive new project along Rhode Island Avenue NE. The Bryant Street development will include 487…

David M. Rubenstein, one of Washington’s richest men, has lately been in the business of protecting and restoring many of the country’s historical treasures.

Neta Vaught said her unit inside Congress Park Apartments in Southeast, D.C. is making her children sick and management is not helping.

The Wharf has become one of D.C.'s most prized real estate areas, but some who live nearby don't like what's blowing their way.

Sports betting in D.C. is facing a new legal roadblock.

Generations of advocates have tried to make DC a state and failed. Now a group called '51 For 51' is trying a new strategy: changing the rules in the Senate.

It seems like everywhere you turn in the Nation’s Capital there are reminders of the DC statehood movement, poised to make noise Thursday during a Congressional hearing decades in the making.

Several D.C. Council members are asking whether the $215 million lottery and sports gaming contract the council approved this summer fulfills local business subcontracting requirements. This week, they got an answer from a high-level…

D.C. lawmakers on Tuesday proposed sweeping measures to curb the rise of youth vaping, including a ban on flavored e-cigarettes and requiring a prescription to buy other electronic smoking products.

In the next six years, DC Streetcar riders could travel east from Union Station to the Benning Road Metro station along a newly-expanded track.

With the mayor’s signature, medical marijuana could soon be administered inside D.C. schools. The D.C. Council passed emergency legislation Tuesday allowing kids to access their prescription in class.

Atlas Restaurant Group will open two venues in DC's Moxy hotel—each with rules about what to wear.

Following the lead of several other jurisdictions in the wake of increasing reports of vaping health risks, Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh on Tuesday introduced a bill to ban the sale or distribution of flavored e-cigarettes in the…

A Senate panel on Tuesday took a first step toward reimbursing the District for costs incurred as a result of President Trump’s Fourth of July celebration, his inauguration and other events in the nation’s capital.

Eighteen months after the rechargeable, dockless scooters began popping up in the city, they’ve evolved from an oddity to a ubiquitous presence on streets and sidewalks. The District Department of Transportation says seven firms (two…