Ward 4

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - People who live in the area near the former site of Walter Reed National Medical Center in Northwest Washington are concerned about their health due to an overwhelming odor.

Whispers of frustrations with Councilmember Brandon Todd float among the elected neighborhood commissioners, residents, and political onlookers in Ward 4. They criticize Todd for his close ties to Mayor Muriel Bowser and his positions on…

The development team behind The Parks, the overhaul of a 66-acre portion of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, has closed on construction financing and lined up its equity partners for the first two ground-up, market-rate buildings.

The much-ballyhooed Upshur Street has seen some surprising headlines in recent weeks: closings, rather than openings.

In the last act of a busy local election year, District voters Tuesday in Ward 4 picked Frazier O’Leary to represent them on the D.C. State Board of Education.

D.C.’s 2018 local elections are finally finished. Frazier O’Leary, the union-backed (and George Pelecanos-endorsed) candidate, won a special election to represent Ward 4 on the Board of Education on Tuesday.

When Ward 4 resident Andrew Hunt received a campaign email from Rhonda Henderson last week, he wondered: How did the candidate for the Ward 4 seat on the D.C. State Board of Education get his email address?

On Election Day in November, D.C. voters decided four surprisingly contentious elections for seats on the D.C. State Board of Education. Those races highlighted divides between the traditional public school system and the city’s robust…

On Nov. 13, the District of Columbia opened the third of its new short-term family facilities, The Triumph, in Ward 8. It was preceded by The Kennedy in Ward 4 and The Horizon in Ward 7. Ribbon cutting ceremonies for each short-term…

ELECTION SEASON in D.C. is not over yet. On Tuesday, voters in Ward 4 will go to the polls for a special election to pick their representative to the State Board of Education. The unusual timing — less than a month after November’s general…

There’s still one more election left in D.C. this year, and the results could turn on the enthusiastic endorsement of D.C. literary royalty George Pelecanos.

The votes have been counted, the election certified, the incumbents returning to their seats. So what’s going on in Ward 4?