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One of a handful of low-rise, car-centric shopping centers remaining in the District is now being tapped for a redevelopment that will add new housing to Northeast D.C. Cedar Realty Trust announced Tuesday it acquired a 99-year lease with a…

At D.C. barbecue restaurant Hill Country, go ahead, get the spare ribs. Just don’t try to pay for them with spare change. That’s because the Texas-style barbecue market in Penn Quarter recently stopped accepting cash. Now, it’s plastic only…

WASHINGTON — The District provides plenty of good street-level sights. There are attention-grabbing monuments, fountains, and displays in store windows. Both locals and tourists alike, however, may not know there is a thriving rooftop…

The other day, Ehren Reynolds and his 4-year-old son, Theo, looked at a map of the Metro system, as they do each day during their commute to child care. “You can get on the Yellow and Green, the Orange, Silver and Blue,” Theo said, as he…

Houston, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Memphis, and Atlanta have one thing in common. They've all hosted a Black Restaurant Week to highlight black culinary and bar talent as well as black-owned restaurants. This fall, D.C. joins the movement…

An operator at the District’s 911 center failed to send police Monday afternoon when a parent at an elementary school in Northwest Washington called to report a man outside the building threatening to shoot, according to a city spokeswoman.

The crew from Wellington Park had been planning a drive-by shooting in rival Clay Terrace turf for weeks, police say, even buying a stolen car to use. On the afternoon of July 16, it was time to recruit some gunmen.

“Our office is reviewing the findings of the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s report and we will consider taking action if appropriate.”

Mayor Muriel Bowser tweeted a most intriguing question on Monday: “What qualities do want in your @dcpublicschools Chancellor? Let us know at tomorrow’s @OurSchoolsDC Chancellor Search Engagement Forum.”

One-hundred years ago, on Aug. 31, 1918, Congress preserved a stretch of land along the Anacostia River as a national park. On Friday and Saturday, to mark the centennial of that event and highlight Anacostia Park’s offerings, the National…

WASHINGTON — They’re naked, buck-toothed and nearly blind, but that isn’t stopping a colony of 17 naked mole-rats from trying to take the internet by storm at the Smithsonian National Zoo.

Officials from the General Services Administration may have misled Congress about the White House’s role in canceling a decade-long search for a new FBI headquarters campus in the Washington suburbs last year, according to a government…

If you've got 5,600 freshwater mussels, you could serve about 280 steaming plates of moules marinières. Or, you could deposit the bivalves in the Anacostia River. The Anacostia Watershed Society has opted for the latter as part of a larger…

Property Group Partners is gearing up to deliver nearly 1M SF of trophy office at Capitol Crossing, its $1.3B megaproject being constructed on a deck above Interstate 395, but less than 10% of that space is leased. In an interview with…