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When he smokes marijuana, a pastime he has indulged in “every day, all day” for four decades, Tyrone Gathers says he makes sure to leave his apartment and the grounds of his public housing complex in the District.

Ever wondered just how clean the water is in the Potomac River, the Anacostia or Rock Creek? Starting May 1, it will be a lot easier to find out. An army of volunteers will be testing the water weekly at nearly two dozen sites, and posting…

Demand for D.C. hotel rooms fell short of expectations in the first quarter, a trend experts and tourism officials attribute to the longest U.S. government shutdown in history.

The best place to see them is right at the bank of Rock Creek near Peirce Mill in Northwest D.C. At the right time of year, there might be hundreds of fast-moving shadows slipping through the water, chasing one another upstream.

Aniya Cox is sure she wants to be a dermatologist. What she’s been less sure about is what she needs to do to get there — she’s just 16, a sophomore at Eastern Senior High School in Washington, D.C.

That extremely unlikely outcome is just one aspect of an intriguing scientific effort.

Sweetgreen, the D.C.-born fast-casual salad chain, is doing away with its two-year-old ban on cash transactions. The company announced Thursday that all of its 94 locations—expected to grow to 110 by year’s end—will begin accepting cash…

A $200M mixed-use development in NoMa is moving forward after an appeal delayed it for more than a year.

D.C. residents gathered together yet again this week at the site of car crash fatality—this time, at the corner of V and 16 streets Southeast to remember Abdul Seck.

The 33rd iteration of the festival kicks off today.

Good Thursday morning. Progressive activist group DC for Democracy is beginning a new campaign today to further restrict campaign donations and end constituent service funds.

I was disappointed by the April 17 front-page article “Housing vouchers roil a pricey D.C. building.” The article’s characterization of an increase in tenants with housing vouchers at a Northwest D.C. apartment building as a “high-stakes…

K Street NW’s parking and service lanes would go away under a proposal from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.

There are redevelopment plans in the works for a 7-11 store in DC.

Verizon Wireless has been testing its 5G network in Chicago and Minneapolis, and announced that D.C. will be one of the 20 markets that will get it next.

After three years, Grilled Oyster Company is closing the doors at their Newark Street location in Northwest D.C.

A critical federal subsidy for Metro would increase to $200 million a year on condition that the agency adopt new oversight and safety measures, under legislation the region’s senators plan to introduce.

The new and imposing museum hopes to draw crowds and establish a new cultural hub in the District.

A vigil in D.C.’s Anacostia neighborhood Wednesday night honored Abdul Seck, a pedestrian who was killed in a crash on Easter Sunday. It’s the second vigil in a week in which people mourned life lost through car accidents on D.C. roads.

The building's owners want to raise rents by as much as 60 percent over four years.