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Every now and then comes a reminder that The System works precisely as everybody suspects it does and wishes it didn’t. The situation now roiling the youth sports scene in the Nation’s Capital is one of those. The D.C. government recently…

D.C. resident Regina Williams has dropped a lawsuit she filed in June against JBG Smith Properties (NYSE: JBGS) in which she alleged representatives for the Chevy Chase-based developer refused to accept housing assistance at its Atlantic…

The Blackstone Group has cashed out of 815 Connecticut Ave. NW.

A 55-year-old office building near the White House that underwent a significant renovation in 2013 has just traded hands.

District officials are moving ahead with a study of the redevelopment of the Reeves Center, kicking off a search for a firm to help chart the future of the aging government building in the heart of the U Street corridor.

One of the city’s most well-known alleys will be the site of a free festival featuring food and more next month. On September 14, Bethesda-based design firm Streetsense will host the six-hour event in Shaw’s historic Blagden Alley, where…

On a recent Wednesday night at the Quality Inn on New York Avenue in Northeast—which the city uses as an overflow homeless shelter—parents and children poured into the motel’s community room for a back-to-school drive.

On a recent Wednesday, Renee Hines sat at a table in D.C.’s Northwest One Library near Mount Vernon Triangle, ready to greet people experiencing homelessness who had lined up to see her.

Limited resources put providers in competition with one another.

“We have one gentleman who’s 67 years old who gets disability. Maybe $800 a month. Where’s he going to live? That’s what we’re up against.”

The NoMa BID wants homeless encampments gone so that area pedestrians feel more comfortable.

The few black businesses owners whose shops still inhabit Shaw and U Street NW storefronts have had a front-row seat to gentrification.

The underpasses at K, L, and M Streets in the NoMa area of Northeast D.C. give off an unpleasant odor. Put bluntly, they reek of urine. And the rotting piles of garbage strewn up and down their sidewalks do little to mask the smell.

It was the first day of construction. A new short-term family housing project was going up in Ward 1.

The Greek company Intralot, which last month received a $215 million contract to bring sports gambling to the nation’s capital and to continue running its lottery, says more than half the work will go to a small D.C. firm — a condition…

Muhammad Al-Qaabil has been driving a cab in D.C. for 46 years, so he knows something about picking up passengers — like, when you pick someone up, it’s best to go where they actually are.

An organization that promotes development in a fast-gentrifying District neighborhood is defending a letter critical of homeless encampments that some advocates called insensitive.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Wednesday expressed confidence in the city agency that failed to act on reports of “life safety violations” at a rowhouse months before a fire tore through the building on Aug. 18 and killed two tenants,…

Would you get out of your car and take public transit for money?

An eight-year conflict has engulfed a narrow slice of Woodley Park, pitting residents against bicyclists in the Northwest neighborhood — and their struggle reflects similar tensions in other parts of the District.