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The Smithsonian Institution has canceled this summer’s 10-day Folklife Festival celebrating the music and culture of Benin and Brazil and will replace it with a smaller event.

D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) faces the threat of a recall election as political fallout from an ongoing federal probe into his business dealings continues to grow.

Metro will increase service on the Yellow and Red lines next year, doubling the number of trains at a dozen stations in hopes of boosting ridership as the system continues to undergo substantial rebuilding and truncated hours to address a…

A D.C. woman has filed suit against the District of Columbia Housing Authority for cutting her voucher benefits after she divorced her allegedly abusive husband, despite several attempts from her and her legal counsel to advise DCHA of her…

Controversial former Ward 5 Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Kathy Henderson put out the call: “We will meet on the steps of the Wilson building on Thursday at noon, in support of clear cut rules and Councilmember Jack Evans,” she wrote…

Cosmetics retailer Sephora has a whopping three new stores planned for Greater Washington.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) made a surprise visit to the White House on Wednesday to discuss judicial vacancies and urged President Trump to replace the city’s troubled hospital for veterans.

Metro plans to add some service back this summer at stations on Yellow, Green and Red lines without raising fares, after the Metro Board unanimously gave preliminary approval Thursday to the agency’s $3.5 billion budget.

Following years of anticipation, the wait is finally over. After holding a series of local hiring fairs, Busboys and Poets opened its doors in the first week of March on the ground floor of 2004 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE, in a…

In 2017, UrbanTurf reported on the sale of the former Medhane Alem Eritrean Church at 150 S Street NW (map). Now, following the edifice being razed under potentially illegal circumstances, plans for the future of the site are coming into…

The last time D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser met with President Donald Trump, they talked about preparations for a winter storm. But at a meeting this week, the conversation touched on more serious topics.

The Metro board gave unanimous preliminary approval on Thursday to its $3.5 billion fiscal year 2020 budget, which starts in June of this year. The board will vote one more time later this month to finalize the proposed budget, which…

Happy Thursday. Four council members, including Chairman Phil Mendelson, oppose emergency approval of a bill from the mayor to extend the private Lab School's lease beyond 2023 at a city-owned site in Ward 3. The debate has become charged…

Hoffman-Madison Waterfront plans to award as many as four different general contracts for the next phase of The Wharf, the 1.25 million-square-foot follow-up to its Southwest waterfront mixed-use development slated for completion in 2022. …

The development train continues to slowly chug along around Tenleytown, American University Park and along the Wisconsin Avenue corridor, perhaps exemplified best by the lot zoned for mixed use that was granted a permanent special…

A new outdoor venue across from Audi Field in D.C.’s Buzzard Point is ready for its close-up.

When the D.C. Public Charter School Board voted in December to initiate revocation proceedings for National Collegiate Prep, a Ward 8 charter high school founded 10 years ago that educates about 250 students, few could say they were really…

DC’s longest-serving councilman is in trouble. With the US Attorney’s Office and a federal grand jury investigating his suspect dealings, Jack Evans' days as a top DC powerbroker are over. That conclusion seems inescapable now that Evans’…

The team behind the redevelopment of McMillan Reservoir is applying for a two-year extension on a portion of the project as it remains mired in appeals years after its approval.

The films playing at the 27th annual film fest are an awe-inspiring and sobering look at a planet in peril.