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WASHINGTON -- A proposal to bring more public restrooms to D.C. has passed an important hurdle.

In the last act of a busy local election year, District voters Tuesday in Ward 4 picked Frazier O’Leary to represent them on the D.C. State Board of Education.

It turns out, legalizing pygmy hedgehogs was a more prickly issue than it seemed.

Despite the pleas of Metro and the leaders of its board, the D.C. Council gave final approval on Tuesday to legislation that reclassifies fare evasion in the transit system as a civil offense.

The Washington Area Bicyclist Association (WABA) has issued a new action plan on traffic safety that calls for building 25 miles of bike lanes a year and reducing the number of vehicles that come into downtown D.C., perhaps through…

Tens of thousands of American high school students each year flock to the National Mall to look up at the larger-than-life monuments to the Founding Fathers: the 554-foot Washington obelisk and the 80,000-square-foot temple to Jefferson on…

George Washington University Hospital is expected to pull out of a tentative deal to run a new Southeast D.C. hospital because of new provisions backed Tuesday night by many D.C. Council members, according to a source familiar with the…

The District is close to locking in a deal for a new transportation department headquarters in the Navy Yard area, where it will kick off the construction of a new office building to be developed by William C. Smith & Co. Inc.

When it was completed in 1855, the Smithsonian Institution’s Castle represented the grand ambitions of a revolutionary education organization. With its library, lecture halls, laboratories and exhibition spaces, the James Renwick-designed…

Belletrist, the online book club co-founded by the actor Emma Roberts and her best friend Karah Preiss, recently named Kramerbooks its indie bookstore of the month.

Today, the Washington DC Economic Partnership held its annual meeting, and in conjunction with the meeting, it released its 2018 development report.

The D.C. Council voted to decriminalize Metro fare evasion on Tuesday after considering the legislation for more than a year and a half.

WASHINGTON — A proposal to exempt children’s play groups from day-care type regulations is moving forward in the D.C. Council.

The race to save Initiative 77 is on.

The end is near. The agenda for the D.C. Council’s penultimate legislative meeting last Tuesday included more than 100 items, from firearm safety to campaign finance reform to turnstile jumping to building a new hospital east of the…

D.C.’s 2018 local elections are finally finished. Frazier O’Leary, the union-backed (and George Pelecanos-endorsed) candidate, won a special election to represent Ward 4 on the Board of Education on Tuesday.

Remember that idea to connect Georgetown and Rosslyn with an aerial gondola? Well, now some of the area’s powerful heads of business are calling to breathe new life into the plan.

The threat of appeal has delayed and deterred many planned-unit developments (PUD) in the District in recent years, although typically these appeals are associated with projects proposing hundreds of housing units in a construction-heavy…

The bill would also ban bump stocks, increase the penalty for high capacity magazines, and make it harder for some people to register a firearm.