John G. Laytham, the co-owner and chief executive of Clyde’s Restaurant Group who joined the business 55 years ago as a dishwasher and helped build it into a $135 million-a-year operation with 13 restaurants in the Washington area, died…
D.C. Council members are moving to ensure the city’s most vulnerable students get the help they have been promised following disclosures that money for at-risk students was used for routine school system expenses.
WASHINGTON (ABC7) — DC Mayor Muriel Bowser sat down with ABC7's Alison Starling at her home to talk about the next four years and lay out her vision for her second term in office.
Attorney general nominee William P. Barr said Tuesday that if confirmed, he would not interfere with the District’s decriminalization of marijuana, giving a boost to advocates who want to fully legalize pot in the nation’s capital.
Earlier this week, Washington, D.C., councilmember Brandon Todd proposed legislation that would dramatically increase the number of dual language immersion (DLI) programs in the nation’s capital. This is hardly a surprise. In a city like…
It’s perhaps no surprise that Mayor Muriel Bowser selected Lewis Ferebee to be the next chancellor of D.C. Public Schools. His work at Indianapolis Public Schools made him a rising star nationally. His five-year tenure (above average for…
LGBT members of the city’s Advisory Neighborhood Commissions have formed a Rainbow Caucus, which they say will serve as a forum for sharing ideas and concerns and possibly advocating for issues and legislation.
There are only 18 buildings in the entire District of Columbia with as much historical preservation protection as the Franklin School, a stately and beautiful building on K Street NW erected in 1869 as the District’s first high school. Both…
Atlas Brew Works still has a tank full of beer it can’t sell in kegs, thanks to the federal shutdown that has shuttered the agency that approves its labels. Now, the Ivy City brewery has filed a suit against the acting U.S. attorney…
A year ago, plans emerged for one of the final parcels at the Waterfront Station redevelopment. Now, as the development team prepares to go before the Zoning Commission, we're taking another look at the somewhat-tweaked design of the…
The District government is looking for companies who could design and build a new 375-unit homeless shelter for men on the St. Elizabeths East Campus in Southeast, which is currently undergoing major redevelopment into a mixed-use…
Although some millennial residents of the District and its inner suburbs have left the area in search of affordability or job opportunities, the majority plan to stay in the city. That’s according to a recent survey by ULI Washington, which…
Good Tuesday morning. The DC Council will presumably ask some hard questions today over what went wrong during the renovation of the historic Franklin School, where workers transforming the building into a museum trashed its interior,…
A Bowser administration official has approved the long-planned transformation of the West Heating Plant in Georgetown into about 80 luxury Four Seasons condominiums, a key step toward ending a protracted debate over the World War II-era…
Once again, D.C. police were standing on a familiar stretch of Benning Road. It was midafternoon on Saturday, a winter storm imminent, another young man shot and killed on this road.