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Delivery of bill to Congress was held up due to protocols related to Jan. 6 riots

The Kennedy Street corridor is a section of DC that has seen a lot of development action in the past few years, and a new condo project looks to add more residences to the strip.

D.C.-based Eaternity — The Social Restaurant Group, which owns La Vie, Provision 14 and Bar Bao, has signed a lease for a waterfront restaurant at the recently completed RiverPoint apartment building in Buzzard Point.

Howard University plans to stand up a new hub for applied data sciences — and one of its first degrees will be shaped by Amazon Web Services, the school and company told the Washington Business Journal.

In 1966, the United Nations identified adequate housing as a fundamental human right as part of its International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. But, even as early as 1944, in his State of the Union address, with the…

Dr. Yolandra Hancock doesn’t have to read a medical journal to know how soda and other sugar-filled drinks destroy people, young and old, in the African American community and why people of color are disproportionately dying of COVID-19 at…

The DC Council opted Tuesday not to lift DC's moratorium on evictions ahead of a Friday hearing on the city's pandemic recovery.

Some Metrorail workers are ignoring safety rules they don’t agree with.

Metro rail cars that were sidelined in November after multiple incidents of cars separating while in service will stay off line, safety inspectors said Tuesday.

A massive development plan for D.C. that lawmakers revisit every two decades is now on its way to the mayor’s desk. The D.C. Council also extended the ban on evictions and utility shut-offs.

Advocates for the District’s hospitality industry are making a push for $200 million in aid to to support struggling hotel owners as the Bowser administration prepares its budget request for fiscal 2022 later in May.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser expects all 50,000 DC Public School students to return to school buildings in the fall.

On Tuesday afternoon, the DC Council unanimously approved the amended Comprehensive Plan, potentially clearing the path for a logjam of development citywide to move forward.

During a recent D.C. Council hearing, Patrice Sulton, a civil rights lawyer, began to scold Charles Allen, chair of the council’s judiciary committee. At issue was whether the District should create its own parole board, and Sutton, who is…

DC Council has been working for years to update the Comprehensive Plan, DC’s enormous zoning and land-use document. On Tuesday, those years of work concluded in a unanimous vote on an update to the document, which dates back to 2006.

George Washington University will soon begin searching for a new president.

The D.C. Council voted down a controversial measure Tuesday that would have allowed landlords to resume sending eviction notices during the pandemic, opting instead to revisit the proposal at a later date.

Neighborhood opposition previously killed Dacha's plans for a beer garden on the property

D.C. lawmakers have rejected a major change to the city’s Covid-inspired eviction ban in the face of staunch opposition — but some alterations to the moratorium are likely on the way within the next two weeks.