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The new year brings new laws into effect across the region: Starting Jan. 1, residents can no longer legally hold their cellphones to their ears while they drive in Virginia, sell foam peanuts in the District, or run in Maryland’s general…

This New Year’s, transportation agencies and companies want you to stay home. Metro won’t be running late-night hours for the holiday as it often has in the past, and Uber and Lyft are nixing their typical New Year’s promotions.

D.C. has begun accepting proposals to redevelop the Frank D. Reeves Center, on the northwest corner of 14th Street and U Street Northwest.

D.C. revenues could return to fiscal year 2019 levels by fiscal year 2022, as vaccines are deployed and the economy recovers.

Of course, COVID-19 looms large across this year’s annual Year in Review issue. From the shocking death toll, to the devastating impact on local businesses, to the cancellation of Pride, coronavirus upended all of our lives. Here are the…

At a press conference commemorating Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day on Dec. 21, leaders of the People for Fairness Coalition (PFFC) laid out their demands for D.C.: a $1.5 billion increase in spending on adding and maintaining affordable…

Mayor Muriel Bowser nominated her most recent political appointee to the Green Finance Authority Board (“Green Board”) based on the candidate’s bona fides in affordable housing and community development.

Happy Wednesday. The District’s pandemic-battered economy is projected to take a $461.8 million revenue hit over the next three fiscal years, the chief financial officer said late Wednesday. That’s actually a better forecast than the one…

Vaccine rollout has moved slowly in the Washington region and nationwide as the year comes to a close, though officials stressed Wednesday that they were moving to pick up the pace.

Protests planned in support of President Trump on Jan. 6 are multiplying by the week.

The District has begun accepting proposals to develop the Franklin D. Reeves Center at 14th and U streets, city leaders announced Wednesday, the next step in a years-long process to transform the facility at the heart of a historic and…

With the new year just around the corner, some D.C.-area jurisdictions have new laws on the books.

Paramount Group Inc. (NYSE: PGRE) has completed the sale of 1899 Pennsylvania Ave. NW nearly 10 months after the office building went under contract — and for $12 million less than the original contract price.

Karim el-Amin, 42, took shelter Dec. 8 in his tent near Thomas Circle in Northwest Washington. Temperatures were turning colder that week, with lows hovering near freezing.