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‘Painstaking’ process may finally be paying off, says Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton

WASHINGTON — Novel South Capitol, a new luxury apartment development sandwiched between Capitol Hill and Capitol Riverfront, with an on-site coworking space, has begun leasing with first move-ins expected in February.

This month, members of the Ward 8 community will celebrate the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy during a peace walk and parade along a major corridor named for the martyred civil rights figure who championed nonviolent…

To this day, the sting of defeat continues to burn for the young people who, on several occasions, spoke to the D.C. Council about their sense of powerlessness against the societal ills affecting their generation, only for the city’s…

Members of the D.C. Council began 2019 by introducing key bills that they hope will improve the lives of city residents.

Hawah Kasat, co-founder and executive director of One Common Unity (OCU), is the recipient of Georgetown University’s 17th annual John Thompson Legacy of a Dream Award.

Metro is bleeding money as the longest federal government shutdown in history rolls on, $400,000 on the average weekday and it will only get worse, the transit agency told Virginia and Maryland’s U.S. Senate delegation Thursday.

During her Second Term Outlook Address on Tuesday, postponed due to Monday’s snow, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced renewed priorities for her next four years in office as well as a series of organizational changes within the D.C. Government.

Plans are underway to give the Howard Center a much needed makeover, adding available housing to students, university officials announced.

(CNN)The Department of Labor on Thursday denied a request from Washington's mayor to make more federal employees who are working without pay eligible to collect unemployment benefits, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday.

“Racial equity” sounds so much more polite and positive than the ugly ill it’s trying to address—a history of deep structural and institutional racism.

Marc Edwards helped expose dangerous amounts of lead in the water in Flint and D.C. Now, some of the activists he worked with have turned against him.

At the main intersection is what residents call the “historic” McDonald’s. Down a side street is the Faith United Church of Christ. Surrounding the small collection of businesses and institutions: acres of semi detached houses.

On a regular day at lunchtime, the streets around Gallery Place are crammed with tourists and office workers. But these are the days of the shutdown, and things are far from normal.

Metro wants to fetch at least $2.15 million by selling a large corner lot in Columbia Heights. The catch? The land, covering more than 7,000 square feet, is currently home to a dog park.

The loss of federal workers is cutting into ridership, and the agency could be forced to scale back service, or ask local jurisdictions for more money.

A D.C. restaurant will pay $7,000 as part of a settlement after an employee tried to stop a transgender woman from using a women’s restroom last summer, D.C.’s attorney general said this week.

A majority of commissioners on the D.C. Housing Authority board voted Thursday afternoon to establish a plan for abating the dismal conditions in thousands of the Authority’s public housing units—a plan that some attorneys and nonprofit…

Picture this: You’re sitting at a busy District intersection with your turn signal on waiting to turn left. Traffic from the other direction is heavy. You’re poised to find your opening. Maybe your phone goes off. Or your kids are screaming…

We now know who will be providing concessions and catering services at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center for at least the next 10 years: Philadelphia-based Aramark Corp.