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The D.C. Council put off a decision Tuesday on whether to skip competitive bidding and award a sole source contract for management of the city’s new venture into sports betting. Council members said they wanted to alleviate concerns about…

D.C. was home to the first-ever Dyke March in April 1993, when 20,000 self-described dykes from across the country joined together to march from Dupont Circle to the White House.

Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage, according to Frank Sinatra. But the government shutdown made a liar of Ol’ Blue Eyes in the District … until now.

WASHINGTON — D.C.’s attorney general is suing the operators of an area health club chain, alleging that customers were misled about cancellation policies and charged after they’d ended their memberships.

The annoying, high-pitched whoosh of hair dryers is being heard less often at Last Tangle in Washington. The popular 19th Street NW hair salon in the downtown Golden Triangle is normally busy seven days a week.

A real estate team that averages more than $100 million in luxury property sales annually and has sold some of the area's most well-known homes is moving from Washington Fine Properties to 7-year-old real estate upstart Compass Inc.

Happy Tuesday. The DC Council met for its first legislative meeting of the new session today, but an emergency measure on sports wagering was taken off the agenda, delaying its implementation.

Let the wedding bells ring again in the District.

WASHINGTON — The DC Council on Tuesday tackled one of the odder side effects of the partial federal government shutdown, unanimously passing emergency legislation that makes it possible for couples who want to get married in the District of…

In a city of 700,000 that continues to grow, there's nowhere to go, some say, but up—as in, physically higher, by building increasingly dense and tall apartment complexes that would increase the District's housing supply. That would also,…

If the District wants to be first out of the gate to offer wagering on sports, it also needs to be the first to ensure the integrity of a system that’s certain to be prone to ripoffs

The local author opens up about getting beyond the denial, blame, and shame of being an under or unemployed professional when you ordinarily would be eyeing retirement.

A D.C. taxi driver of 28 years who goes by Mr. Paul reports that the government shutdown has cut his daily pay by about 75 percent. “It’s hard to believe that some days I come home with $26,” he says. “Before the shutdown, I would be…

Legislation taxing and regulating recreational marijuana will “soon” be introduced in D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday.