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It’s sliding toward default on its bonds and is struggling to draw enough visitors.

A minor crash that occurred in the District on Monday night involving a vehicle registered to D.C. Council Member Trayon White Sr. is being investigated as a hit-and-run, according to the District’s police chief. No injuries were reported.…

D.C. Council member Brandon Todd (D-Ward 4) has been fined $4,000 by the Office of Campaign Finance for improperly using an email list to support a candidate in a school board race late last year. The list was culled from people who…

Increasingly, DC's workforce is comprised of either high-income or low-income jobs, with few middle-income jobs available. Among DC’s most common occupations, 40% are low wage jobs that do not pay enough to cover the city’s high housing…

Nearly two years ago, we got our first glimpse of Spring Flats as a redevelopment option for the historic Hebrew Home a few blocks from the Georgia Avenue-Petworth Metro station. Now, the development team has secured a land disposition…

Diapers will soon be a bit cheaper for parents in D.C.

DC will extend the Circulator bus to Ward 7, demolish the Wendy's at New York and Florida avenues NE, extend the DC Streetcar to Benning Road, and more under the proposed 2020 budget just released by Mayor Muriel Bowser.

D.C. Council Member Trayon White says his BMW which was involved in a hit-and-run crash Monday night had been borrowed by a friend.

One of D.C.’s historic active firehouses is hiding in plain sight.

Denis Crean swims in the Potomac River two times a week. He takes others in, too, to teach them techniques for traversing the open water.

Happy budget day. Mayor Muriel Bowser's proposed $15.5 billion budget makes new investments in affordable housing — as we already knew from her State of the District Address on Monday.

"The weight of the world is on my shoulders in my household. … I don’t want to bury my child because of asthma.”

Some Metrobus riders will now get a jump start on traffic during their commute thanks to newly installed “bus only” traffic signals.

The DC government isn’t known for great architecture. But its effort to revamp local libraries is creating some exciting spaces.

An affiliate of the Donohoe Cos. has sold a Tenleytown commercial building for $15.8 million as it seeks to avoid the potential loss of another office building nearby recently vacated by Fannie Mae.