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Good Thursday morning. City Paper reports on how DC mismanaged a lead remediation grant from the federal government that was first awarded in 2012. Until four months ago, a DC program called Lead Safe Washington gave assistance to help…

Planet Word, the new language museum taking over D.C.’s historic Franklin School, will feature a talking tree.

The Washington jazz scene barely resembles Duke Ellington's day, but younger artists and smaller venues keep the legacy going.

If you’re a resident of the Washington, DC area, chances are you’ve been following the debate over late night Metro service – or have been affected by the cuts. In 2016, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) cut late…

A new biography of Hope Ridings Miller looks at the journalist's life and legacy.

In 2005, Malissa Freese took an eye-opening trip in search of a new home. Coming off DC’s Interstate 295, she hit the block of Benning Road NE that houses an unsightly Pepco facility and made a left turn on Anacostia Avenue into River…

Looks like it's too little, too late

More and more members of Congress are declaring their intentions to run for president next year. While John Delaney is already from the region, most hail from out of town and have to start fresh when they establish District digs. So what…

Last September, the Zoning Commission (ZC) granted approval to a second-stage planned-unit development (PUD) for the two remaining sites at the Waterfront Station development just steps from the Waterfront Metro station. Now, the project…

Convene, a meeting and event space provider moving into the coworking sector, has just made a big splash in the D.C. office market.

When the call came in to cover a Dupont Circle snowball fight, I didn’t blink.

The MPD has no official policy guiding release of information following an officer-involved shooting, an MPD spokesperson says.

Still missing the Tommy Show? Well, now there’s an app for that.

Several D.C. lawmakers are urging the University of the District of Columbia to revoke an speaking invitation to Joshua Lopez, a former city official who was involved in an anti-Semitism scandal last year.

The experiment of tying teachers’ evaluations and pay to student test scores is over. It captured the imagination of decision-makers in D.C., Denver and nationwide a decade ago. As Post columnist David Von Drehle pointed out, the demand to…

Over the last six years residents of Forest Hills may have noticed regular late fall bulletins from the National Park Service (NPS) announcing a “window of opportunity” for sharpshooters to kill deer in Rock Creek Park. NPS claims that the…

Tommy McFly and Kelly Collis, two of the hosts of a beloved local morning radio show that was canceled in October, are branching out on their own with an independent, internet-streaming morning broadcast set to launch Monday.

Another historic district could be afoot for the District of Columbia.

This fall, when you pick up a 24-ounce can of Pabst Blue Ribbon at the store, take a close look at the label: It might bear the work of local artist Tenbeete Solomon. PBR announced Monday that the 26-year-old graphic designer is one of the…

WASHINGTON — Nando’s Peri-Peri reopened its Dupont Circle location Feb. 20 after a two-month renovation, and will hand out free chicken one day next month at the D.C. location to mark the reopening.