The government's partial shutdown has turned Washington's National Mall into a bleak place. Trash cans are overflowing, museums and historic sites are shuttered. Park Service rangers and Smithsonian employees are furloughed as the shutdown…
The founders of DMV Black Restaurant Week are introducing a new event series with the Metropolitan Police Department to nurture mutual respect and improve day-to-day interactions between restaurants and bars and the police. The move comes…
Whispers of frustrations with Councilmember Brandon Todd float among the elected neighborhood commissioners, residents, and political onlookers in Ward 4. They criticize Todd for his close ties to Mayor Muriel Bowser and his positions on…
WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - Environmental inspectors began enforcing the District’s new plastic straw ban Tuesday, and so far, there’s a lot of room for improvement.
D.C. public and charter schools are required to perform more robust background checks before hiring new teachers under a new law passed by the D.C. Council.
Good Thursday morning. Hear Green Teamers talk about themselves, and you too might feel warm and fuzzy inside. In a City Paper story about Brandon Todd’s potentially fading popularity in Ward 4, former Council member Bill Lightfoot talks up…
“I have to meet this guy and have sex with him. If I don’t, then he and his friends are going to rape my little sister,” a student at Frank Ballou High School in Ward 8’s Congress Heights told her teacher. The teacher was trying to persuade…
Providence Health System has received conditional regulatory approval for its closure plan, pushing off the District's immediate efforts to block the Northeast D.C. hospital from shutting down.
In late 2017, UrbanTurf reported on likely plans by Howard University to seek to convert part of the Howard Center into residences. Now, those plans are in motion.
On the corner of 12th and Monroe streets NE a Nativity scene rests near the base of a stone church, as a mother and her three children walk past a statue of the Virgin Mary draped in blue Christmas lights.
Bars, event venues and other retailers in D.C. could soon offer sports betting inside their walls under a new law the D.C. Council passed in December, and everyone from independent entrepreneurs to popular D.C. bar owners to MGM Resorts is …
A Wednesday in the middle of January during a government shutdown is probably a better time than most to close Third Street NW and move an entire building.