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There’s no one right answer to the Rorschach inkblot test. What you behold is what you see, and almost certainly different from what someone else sees. In an odd experiment melding perception and expression, D.C.’s Rorschach Theatre, named…

Last month, the Washington Business Journal reported on the plans to redevelop the building Zara once occupied in Georgetown. Now, those plans have a tweaked design.

The District Department of Transportation has suspended scooter company Skip from operating in the District for at least 30 days after a lithium battery fire in the company’s downtown warehouse, multiple outlets have reported.

Activists are also concerned about how the Bowser administration has restricted information about hate crimes.

Fans of Call Your Mother will have another place to presumably queue up for giant bagel sandwiches: The the self-described “Jew-ish” bagel store is expanding with a Georgetown location.

The first of more than a dozen bus islands, which also provide a protected bicycle lane, is being built on 14th Street Northwest as part of a major project to improve transportation and livability.

Every organization or project starts with an exercise where leaders ask themselves: “what does success look like?”

Washington, DC has one of the highest rates of homelessness in the nation. The 2018 Youth Count DC estimated that more than 1,300 unaccompanied youth, youth separated from family, and youth heads of household were experiencing homelessness…

D.C.’s attorney general announced three lawsuits Thursday against some allegedly neglectful property owners and managers.

Few jobs are more thankless, or invite more cursing and murderous glares on any given workday, than that of a parking enforcement officer. But Washington, D.C., wants to find 80 residents to do the job for nothing.

Metro board Chairman Jack Evans “knowingly” violated ethics rules in “a pattern of conduct” in which he sought to help friends and clients rather than serve the interests of the transit agency, according to the outside law firm that…

Skanska USA has sold its recently completed NoMa apartment building, called Resa, for $141.55 million to Northwestern Mutual, according to a release.

Following an announcement in March that it would begin testing automatic train door operation, Metro is finally rolling out the practice on the Red Line starting July 7.

Since regulations were clarified on accessory dwelling units (ADU) in DC, UrbanTurf has taken interest in the ADU market, highlighting examples of units at various stages in different parts of the city. Today, we turn our attention to a…

During a hearing before a D.C. Council committee in late January, Katrina Barksdale looked at a panel of lawmakers and urged them to act quickly.

After insisting “the ethics committee at Metro found no violation of any ethics rules on my part,” Metro Board Chairman Jack Evans now says he did violate the ethics code.

Each year, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival brings performers, storytellers, artists, and chefs from around the world to the National Mall, filling its grassy expanse with a massive ensemble of international flavors, sounds, art, and…

Skanska has sold the first of three buildings at its NoMa mixed-use development just as it is nearing completion.

At long last, the D.C. Council looks set to take action on revisions to the city’s principal planning document, an outcome eagerly awaited by area developers.

Greater Washington needs to put together a regional approach if it wants to get folks back on buses, according to a firm the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority hired to study ways to improve Metrobus.