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The District’s newest elected advisory neighborhood commissioner is believed to be the first incarcerated person to win office in the nation’s capital.

An advisory neighborhood commission seat whose boundaries encompass the DC Jail, a women's homeless shelter and a residential building has been filled for the first time.

The National Park Service wants your input on the redesign of a portion of Anacostia Park in Southeast D.C.

D.C. police Chief Robert J. Contee III sat in front of a virtual D.C. Council meeting this month and defended the mayor’s decision to keep the school police program intact in next year’s budget -- despite the recommendation from the…

The D.C. Department of Human Services held an information session on June 8 for tenants, members of the public, and advocates to receive updates on reforms to the Stronger Together by Assisting You (STAY) D.C. program.

For years, many homeless residents in D.C. lived in Franklin Park, located on K Street NW. Not only were tents a permanent fixture on the park’s grassy lawns, but nonprofits such as Martha’s Table used the park as a base for homeless…

The Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services (DMHHS) coordinated a trash-only cleanup on June 8 at two encampments located on a bridge at the intersection of Q St. NW and Connecticut Avenue NW near Dupont Circle.

There’s a new elected official in D.C. — and he lives inside the D.C. Jail.

The long-fenced-off former home of the Latham Hotel in Georgetown could become a temporary outdoor dining and drinking lounge, if a developer’s pitch for the site can win over the neighborhood.

A new investment in the D.C.-area from Amazon includes millions of dollars toward affordable housing near Metro stations.

The D.C. Council had a lot to say about drugs on Tuesday.

Amazon will provide $125 million in financing to build or preserve an estimated 1,000 units of affordable housing on Metro-owned land in the D.C. region, the company announced Wednesday.

Felice Development Group is planning a mixed-use project east of the Navy Yard in Southeast D.C., filling in some of the city’s rare undeveloped land along the Anacostia waterfront.

Freelancers who depend on coworking spaces for their work and client meetings are returning as pandemic concerns ease, but just for added peace of mind, office building owner Tishman Speyer’s newest coworking space is a fresh-air pop-up.

One of the most interesting and potentially consequential rearrangements of human affairs in the post-coronavirus world will be people’s relationship to work, their workplaces and how they get there. The Biden administration is considering…

Five years after a large mixed-use development was initially approved, Gallaudet University is moving forward with its massive plans for six acres of its campus — and that isn't the only long-delayed project east of Union Market that's…

The D.C. Council on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to a bill that would ban the sale of flavored tobacco, including menthol cigarettes, and prohibits electronic smoking devices from being sold within a quarter-mile of any middle or high…