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D.C. is increasing its investment in public safety, announcing additional funding for ballistics testing at the city’s forensics lab to connect bullet casings from shooting scenes to the person who fired the gun.

Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans still hasn’t filed for reelection, but the scandal-plagued legislator made his first 2020-related Office of Campaign Finance filing this week: to establish a legal defense committee.

Leaders in the D.C. region want to soften resistance to development. Some tactics may work better than others.

The Dupont Underground arts space is hosting an open house

Jamel Kirkland completed a five-month residential youth military program in June with a new a sense of purpose.

In 2008, DC became the first city in the country to establish a bikeshare system, laying the groundwork for what would become Capital Bikeshare. The shared transit landscape has changed considerably since then, with the system expanding…

Parachute will be located in the Liz building.

Climate protesters shut down multiple key D.C. intersections Monday — and they want to do it again on Friday morning.

At the end of July, the Zoning Commission set down the new application for a mixed-use sister building to the Union Market building for a public hearing in accordance with a recommendation from Office of Planning (OP) staff. Now, the…

Good Tuesday morning. Mayor Muriel Bowser has been talking about adding more housing in Upper Northwest, where many residents in low-rise and single-family-home neighborhoods resist tall buildings.

D.C.’s unique political commentator Mark Plotkin dies

The announcement that the Environmental Protection Agency was scrapping Obama-era rules designed to protect small streams and wetlands made me recall a misty morning this spring on the Potomac River above Georgetown. I brought a striped…

The GOP's anti-urban agenda takes many forms, but it always tracks back to wealthy whites' fear of losing power.

The 11th Street Bridge Park in Washington, D.C.—a planned repurposing of the retired 11th Street Bridge across the Anacostia River between the East of the River neighborhoods and Capitol Hill into a vibrant city park—will connect…

A go-go music revival is celebrating Washington D.C.'s historic black culture and helping to fuel a movement for racial and economic justice.

Mark Plotkin, an impish D.C. radio commentator and statehood activist who helped return Washington’s historic city hall to municipal control in the 1990s, and who later spearheaded a campaign to get the slogan “Taxation Without…

Amen, protesters. Washington was in complete gridlock Monday thanks to marchers, shouters, interlopers and even a sailboat plopped in the middle of an intersection for the morning commute.

We’ll never see the likes of Mark Plotkin again.

When Brianne Eby goes to work, she bikes.

Climate change protesters shut down several intersections from Capitol Hill to downtown Washington during Monday’s morning rush, the latest of rallies around the world designed to force policymakers to respond to Earth’s rising…