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The Fairfax at Embassy Row hotel's new owner is gearing up to turn it into a senior housing community —and the company hopes the historic property won't be its only purchase in Greater Washington.

D.C.’s unemployment benefits system became infamous during the pandemic for excruciatingly long hold times and delayed payments that affected thousands of desperate, laid-off workers. There are now signs that the troubled system enabled…

Scooters arrived in D.C. in 2018, adding a new layer of mobility to the District while exposing some poor parking habits by riders that often created obstacles and hazards on sidewalks.

Another marathon DC Council hearing on Tuesday documented frustration over faulty HVAC systems at dozens of public schools, with DC officials blaming supply chain problems for delayed repairs.

At the beginning of the summer, Hoffman & Associates applied for design review for their development of Parcel B, a plot of land adjacent to the DC United soccer stadium at Buzzard Point (map). Now, the Zoning Commission is poised to…

The newest Chase Bank branch in D.C. held a grand opening Tuesday, and an unlikely face was in town to help celebrate: JP Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon.

When Columbia Heights resident Sarah Nesbit, 25, lost her sense of smell, she joined more than 4,000 D.C. residents who have contracted COVID-19 despite being vaccinated.

The newly installed chief of the U.S. Capitol Police says the force, still struggling six months after an insurrection that left its officers battled, bloodied and bruised, “cannot afford to be complacent.” The risk to lawmakers is higher…

Faith Gibson Hubbard, a longtime high-level D.C. government employee, resigned her appointed position in Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s (D) administration last week to run for D.C. Council.

Temperance Alley Garden is giving neighbors a chance to gather in the face of COVID, but it won’t last forever.

In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

The D.C. Council got an earful in a marathon hearing about air quality and other issues in D.C. Public Schools.

A nonprofit serving LGBTQ youth is scrambling after the D.C. Department of Human Services informed it Friday that the city would not renew an $850,000 grant.

Before it was shuttered in 2011 and moved to a new location in Bethesda, Maryland, the Walter Reed Army Medical Center treated thousands of war-wounded veterans, including troops who served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and…

Group scrambles to raise private donations to prevent Oct. 1 shutdown

Members of a marching band launched the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Chase Innovative Branch in Skyland Town Center in Southeast D.C. Tuesday.