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A 30-year-old developer has grown his company with increasingly large projects across D.C., and now he is taking on his biggest one yet.

For the ninth year in a row, more tourists have visited Washington D.C. than ever before. The city attracted 21.9 million domestic visitors in 2018, according to Destination D.C., the city’s official tourism and marketing office. That’s…

Fresh off a wave of positive reviews for his first memoir, Notes From a Young Black Chef, and a nod at this year’s RAMMY Awards, chef Kwame Onwuachi’s good year continues: The chef of Kith & Kin took home the rising star chef award at…

Part of Rock Creek Parkway will be closed for all of Friday and Monday’s rush hours, as well as the weekend.

The Metro Board suddenly delayed any final action Tuesday on ethics issues facing Metro Board Chairman Jack Evans.

Happy Tuesday. The Bowser administration yesterday called a group of reporters to the Wilson Building to vent about proposed changes made by DC Council committees to the mayor’s spending plan.

The D.C. agency in charge of regulating everything from businesses to construction projects has failed to consistently track or collect fines for violations its inspectors find. The problem is so extensive that shoddy contractors or rogue…

Tony Lewis Jr., 38, is a community leader and the author of “Slugg: A Boy’s Life in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” in which he discusses growing up as the son of D.C. drug kingpin Tony Lewis. In his work at CSOSA (Court Services and…

How many DC playgrounds have dangerous levels of lead or other chemicals? DC City Council is set to spend more than $800,000 to find out.

If it felt crowded on the Mall or other tourist hotspots last year, that’s because it was: 21.9 million people from around the country visited the District in 2018 and spent $7.8 billion — both record numbers, the city’s official marketing…

Kwame Onwuachi, the D.C.-based chef behind Kith and Kin at The Wharf, is one of the most acclaimed young chefs in the country. Now he has a James Beard Award to prove it.

Kith and Kin's Kwame Onwuachi and Tom Cunanan of Bad Saint were both honored.

Eleven weeks ago, Ebonee Hill’s 12-year-old son was shot outside her family’s Northeast Washington apartment. After a long recovery, the sixth-grader was able to return to school, though he’s still too afraid to go outside.

One by one, the prospective charter school founders made their pitches.

D.C. police are investigating the discovery of a Tagg Magazine hanging from a rope in Adams Morgan as a suspected hate crime.

Mostly, it’s the young and ambitious strivers, the fired-up idealists, the aspiring disrupters who move to the nation’s capital.

Mayor Muriel Bowser has proposed several changes to make it easier for local alcohol manufacturers to sell their wares, including allowing wineries and distilleries to ship products directly to consumers and raising the allowable amount of…