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The D.C. Council is considering a bill to fully legalize marijuana and regulate the retail marijuana market. The council decriminalized minor marijuana possession in 2014 ; later that year, voters approved an initiative that removed…

Two years ago, I wrote a book detailing how African American leaders in the District and elsewhere helped, sometimes unwittingly, to usher in the mass-incarceration era. Many black judges, mayors and legislators who served during the…

The D.C. Council’s myopic handling of embattled member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) could be dismissed as an exercise in klutziness were the situation not so serious. Lawmakers seem too shortsighted to see the urgent need to resolve the problem…

Mike Dixon left his first visit to his son’s new school deflated. The Dixons had scored a seat at a Chinese-language charter school in the District that families clamor to attend.

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in D.C. has unveiled its most recent acquisitions, which include a billionaire, a legendary music group, a Pulitzer Prize winner, a fashion industry giant and more.

There's no need to rush to the Panda House.

In a couple of weeks, DC will join other jurisdictions which have implemented new regulatory systems in response to the short term rental market embodied in the rise of platform Airbnb.

“Southeast is nowhere for you to be trans. There’s no resources, there’s no help for you there,” Bela Muney, a trans woman and LGBTQ advocate, told DCist last December.

The National World War I Memorial slated for D.C.’s Pershing Park has received final approval from the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, five years after Congress authorized the memorial and its downtown site.

Officials will hold a meeting about the highly anticipated project next week

It’s not only the inside of the Washington Monument that’s getting an upgrade.

DC’s Comprehensive Plan sets the course for how the city will grow, and the Framework element sets the tone for the rest of this important planning document. Right now the DC Council is in the process of updating the Comp Plan, starting…

TGIF! Muriel Bowser continued the week’s statehood theme by unveiling mayoral-commissioned statehood art at noon:

About a year after 20-year-old Carlos Sanchez-Martin died — the first person in D.C. to be killed while riding an electric scooter — local officials gathered at busy Dupont Circle to remind people about safety on roads and sidewalks.

Big residential plans are on the boards for one of Georgetown's most recognizable blocks.

Currently, one legal strategy for a suspect in the District accused of a violent crime, including murder, is to blame the victim’s identity as an LGBT person.

The city is also expanding the hours that the lanes will be in effect

At least four former teachers at the elite, private Maret School in Northwest D.C. are suspected of sexual misconduct or inappropriate behavior involving students between the 1970s and 2008, according to an independent investigation.

Over the summer, the District tested bus-only lanes downtown on H and I Streets in hopes of improving the speed and reliability of buses in one of the region’s busiest corridors.

Parking and gambling were among Republican fixations. Racism was top for Democrats.