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D.C. Council leaders say Wednesday they will work to keep Providence Health System open for at least the next three years, despite the Northeast D.C. hospital's announcement that it would shut down and transition to outpatient care by year…

Drag queens in pumps, platforms and stilettos will race down a Dupont Circle street later this month as they have for the past 32 years with one marked change — the District’s annual High Heel Race has been taken over by the mayor’s office.

According to a U.N. report released Monday, the future of the planet looks dire. Tens of millions of people flooded by sea level rise, hundreds of millions suffering through severe droughts. Mass die-offs of 70 to 90 percent of coral reefs.…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday opened the second homeless shelter to replace the dilapidated facility at the former D.C. General Hospital campus — part of her campaign promise to close D.C. General by the end of the year and to make…

The D.C. block where NASA’s headquarters is located is poised to be symbolically named “Hidden Figures Way” in the coming months thanks to a unanimously supported effort by District elected officials “to honor the historic women scientists…

If Taylor Swift has inspired you to register to vote, the time is nigh in the District. The main deadline for registering to cast a ballot in the general election scheduled for Nov. 6 is next Tuesday, Oct. 16, according to the D.C. Board of…

The District would adopt one of the nation’s most aggressive plans to cut carbon emissions, aiming to use entirely renewable sources of energy for the city’s power grid just 14 years from now, under new legislation proposed by five D.C.…

A D.C. Council committee is scheduled to hear public testimony on Wednesday about the plan to end acute-care services at Providence Hospital in northeast Washington, and how the closure will affect residents in the eastern part of the…

DC's Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) is designed to help tenants in multi-family apartment building stay put if their landlord decides to sell the property. So why is TOPA not working for tenants in several buildings put up for…

This spring, UrbanTurf reported on plans in the works for a residential building on the Masonic Temple-owned lot at 15th Street and S Street NW (map). Now, we're getting our first look at the by-right project. Perseus TDC has filed an…

Anders Pedersen, aka @DCSpokes, is the Batman of bike lanes. Pedersen and a slew of other District cyclists have taken it upon themselves to photograph, Tweet, report and talk to drivers who block bike lanes. It may seem like a small,…

WASHINGTON — Metro does not plan to raise fares next year, but it also does not necessarily plan to increase service, even as it hopes riders come flooding back to the system. Under previous practice, Metro would have raised fares next…

On a recent morning in the empty dining room of Equinox Restaurant, co-owner Ellen Kassoff Gray and her managers were sipping coffee and hashing out a plan of action in case protesters were to confront a customer in the high-end restaurant…

A new subsidy program in D.C. would give recipients a flat payment to help them make rent–and use the leftover money for whatever else they need.

Tenants could be spared from larger-than-expected rent increases under new legislation the DC Council is considering. Councilmember Anita Bonds (D-At Large) introduced a pair of bills that would update how rent increases are determined…