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The National Building Museum will shutter its doors for a few months starting Dec. 2 to repair the flooring of its Great Hall.

From the outside, the Cheshire’s unassuming brick facade looks like any other garage space nestled behind 18th Street NW in Adams Morgan. It’s easy to overlook the far-out creations that lie within this nonprofit DIY arts space — music…

Mark Plotkin — a longtime WTOP contributor, analyst, political columnist and passionate advocate for D.C. statehood — will lie in repose at the John A. Wilson Building, the D.C. Council announced Wednesday.

District Links: Mayoral aides message on WhatsApp, raising open records concerns; emphasis on affordable housing in newly approved Comp Plan; and more

A lot of progress has been made on the conversion of the Buzzard Point Coast Guard headquarters into a mixed-use residential project, with 130 units delivering by next April. In the meantime, the development team is hoping to get a head…

The D.C. Council has voted to change the name of Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day — at least for this year.

Metro’s Rail Operations Control Center did not give a train operator permission to move a train immediately before it hit another train at low speeds early Monday morning.

Staff and aides to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser are using the message service WhatsApp to communicate, a practice that’s becoming more common among public officials across the country. But it’s also raising concerns among open-government…

Popular New York restaurant Mexicue will open a D.C. outpost in Northwest.

The D.C. Council has voted unanimously to limit U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s ability to enforce immigration law in the nation’s capital.

A Metro train operator moved his train forward despite having received an order to stop, causing it to crash into another train outside the Farragut West station, the safety oversight commission overseeing the investigation said Tuesday.

District officials said Tuesday that a city-owned psychiatric hospital will be without potable water until next week after a strain of bacteria that can cause a fatal illness was discovered in its water system.

A block of Columbia Road NW near the Ace Hardware. A block of M Street NW in Georgetown. And a block of Chinatown near Capital One Arena.

The D.C. Council faced a full agenda Tuesday, taking up a proposed new tax on sodas and sugary drinks, a ban on noncompete agreements for workers in low-wage jobs and tougher new restrictions on cooperating with federal immigration…

Modern Luxury, which owns DC luxury magazine Capitol File, announced a plan Tuesday to stop printing the glossy magazine and transform it and its West Coast sibling LA Confidential into “national digital destinations” in the beginning of…

The D.C. Council has voted to rename Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the District.

United Bank is planning to open a second branch in Georgetown — this one at 3030 M St. NW.

Other parts of the Comprehensive Plan will be updated in the coming months

Back in July, when the D.C. Council was deciding whether or not to strip Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans of all of his committee assignments in light of a growing ethics scandal, the close vote was ultimately decided by one person—Evans…

Lawmakers passed emergency legislation Tuesday to make the change