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This is what accessibility looks like 30 years after the ADA passed.

Petra Development says it will help the restaurant find a new home.

Two members of the D.C. Council are calling foul on a city department’s approval of a $46 million tax abatement for the Line D.C. hotel — despite the fact that the project did not meet some of the legal requirements to receive that tax…

D.C. lawmakers are considering a proposal that could dramatically curtail access to public records, exempting from disclosure correspondence sent with government email in which public employees discuss matters not related to their official…

The International Spy Museum will reopen Sunday in a new building twice the size of its original location, and its founder hopes it will also bring in twice the number of people.

Jack Evans leads an extraordinary life. As the D.C. Council’s longest standing member, with boundless influence and reach, he sits in box seats, attends who’s who events and galas, and poses for photo ops whenever the opportunity arises. …

MRP Realty broke ground earlier this year on the first phase of a 1,500-unit Northeast D.C. development, and it has since secured a nine-figure loan for the project's construction.

The section will close to all traffic starting Thursday, to allow for the installation of a new pedestrian bridge that will connect the arts center to the riverfront.

The Metro Board will not discipline its chairman, Jack Evans, this week.

Happy Wednesday. Council members are holed up today around a conference table discussing changes made to the mayor’s budget proposal by committees. They're about to return from a short break so members could get lunch.

This time around, the license is up for renewal—and that may have consequences

The recently founded joint venture partnership behind the initial phase of the planned 13-acre Bryant Street project near the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station has landed significant funding to advance.

Last month, DC's Shepherd Park neighborhood witnessed the opening of one of the city's first small-format Target stores at a site previously slated for a 215-unit mixed-use development. Elsewhere along the upper Georgia Avenue corridor and…

One of the first objects visitors will see when they enter the International Spy Museum’s new L’Enfant Plaza location is a weapon. An Amber drone, a precursor to the widely-used Predator drone of today, hangs from the lobby’s ceiling.

The waters of the Potomac River, especially in the stretch where they form in the mountains and flow past Washington, are getting cleaner. But a new report says there’s still more work to do to get the river as clean as it was once upon a…

Activists in Washington say the mayor’s proposed budget would worsen disinvestment in black communities.

DOES wants the Line to get its $46 million tax abatement anyway.