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The District Department of Transportation is ending one of its pandemic initiatives that had mixed reviews.

A lot of things have changed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, including how D.C. residents use their streets. Now, city leaders are considering what changes to keep in place in the coming post-pandemic world.

The person that launched Union Market in Northeast D.C., which kicked off a wave of food hall development in Greater Washington, is working on his next act: an 18-stall food hall in an office complex near the Farragut West Metro station.

Opponents of D.C. statehood argued their case in the U.S. House on Monday as Mayor Muriel Bowser and Council Chairman Phil Mendelson testified why the District should be the 51st state.

The tying shot at the buzzer in last week’s Virginia Tech-Florida NCAA basketball tournament game brought customers at Master’s Touch barber shop on Georgia Avenue to their feet. I was among them. But I felt the need to inform the…

Monday was a big day for policymakers trying to prevent D.C. from becoming a state. After living in D.C. for a decade, I thought getting representation in Congress was a good idea. But following the well-reasoned arguments from…

The Office of the D.C. Auditor released a report Tuesday taking a closer look at how D.C. police have handled fatal shootings involving officers over the past few years, pointing out the need for reform within the department.

An independent commission studying how to reinvent policing in the District stopped short of recommending specific cuts to the department’s budget or staffing but agreed to urge the city to divert resources to other programs while reducing…

The house has been in the same family since 1954. They weren’t about to give up on it now.

Last summer, DC Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 3/4G, which largely covers Chevy Chase, formed a temporary Task Force on Racism with the goal of studying and making recommendations around racial equity and social justice.

Congress held a hearing on D.C. statehood on Monday, and the chances of making the District the 51st state have never been greater. Perhaps because the odds are better now than ever before, the strategy to defeat statehood seems to be to…

The National Park Service will limit public access to the Tidal Basin and surrounding area in D.C. to prevent large crowds gathering to take in the region’s annual rite of spring, the cherry blossoms’ peak bloom.

Although it wasn’t the first time he was the target of racist vitriol during the pandemic, when Yunhan Zhang was attacked in his Dupont store last November, he remembers being shocked.

At least 375 brick-and-mortar businesses in D.C. closed permanently or temporarily during the pandemic, as DCist/WAMU recently reported. But a report published today by the D.C. Policy Center shows a surprising parallel trend: New…

Details are emerging for the temporary mixed-use activation planned for the St. Elizabeths campus.

A new report from the D.C. Auditor’s office identified “serious lapses” in the Metropolitan Police Department’s handling and investigation of four high-profile police killings, concluding that the department has “fallen short” of the…

The National Park Service may close the Tidal Basin and surrounding streets during the peak cherry blossom bloom period this year, in compliance with public health guidelines to prevent COVID-19 spread.

For more than three decades, Janet Denise Waddell worked as a special police officer at Howard University, keeping students and staff safe.