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José Andrés, chef, restaurateur and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, will focus his humanitarian efforts on his hometown this week, when his nonprofit organization launches a relief kitchen to feed furloughed federal workers in Washington.

Perhaps don’t read this before going to sleep: In a report released last year by Atlanta-based Orkin Pest Control, the D.C. area ranked second among U.S. metro areas, behind Baltimore, for the worst bedbug problems. Now, District lawmakers…

As the shutdown stretches into its third week, the Nobel Prize-nominated chef is going beyond free sandwiches.

The development pipeline waits for no one, so UrbanTurf is starting early with its 2019 rundown update.

World Central Kitchen will provide meals during the shutdown, similar to areas hit by natural disasters.

Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners' $60 million eNvy condo project is set to come online by the end of the year, offering the only for-sale residential product as close to Nationals Park as you can be without sitting in right field.

José Andrés is as famous for his high-profile D.C. restaurants as for his efforts to serve meals to communities affected by disasters. With hundreds of thousands of people going without a paycheck in the D.C. region, those two worlds are…

The federal government shutdown is having one collateral effect—it’s blowing a hole in the District’s latest effort to promote statehood for itself.

Perhaps one of the biggest policy no-brainers on its merits that apparently remains politically unfeasible is statehood for the District of Columbia, which has a population larger than Wyoming and Vermont but still has no voting…

Owners of hundreds of buildings across D.C. will soon be required to make investments to improve their energy performance under a sweeping new law.

The Rachel Whiteread sculpture show at the National Gallery of Art ended its four-month run this weekend, but because of the partial government shutdown, no one had been able to see the major survey since Jan. 2.

The D.C. Council will resume its quest to limit noise in the city, a mission that led to an uproar from local musicians over the summer.

At dusk on a brisk Saturday afternoon in Washington, when the government shutdown has muted the Mall and scared away tourists, the capital’s recently unwrapped stretch of waterfront is a rare spot of liveliness. A curving pier unfurls,…

When there's a significant snow, we can see where motor vehicles are driving on the roads because they push the snow aside. The spots where this doesn't happen shows us where there's extra pavement that might be better used in other ways.…

Happy snow day. Call it trial by fire — on Saturday, the DC Office of Planning's new director came before a hundred land-use activists, including some of the most vocal critics of the city's development policies. 

Residents near the intersection of 11th and C SE say that despite 160 signatures (many from customers of the adjacent dry cleaner) opposing the installation pictured above, DDOT brushed aside their concerns and installed the Bikeshare rack…

This spring, construction is expected to begin on a 60-unit affordable senior building as part of the redevelopment of Ward 7's Meadow Green Courts Apartments. Now, a much larger plan is in the works for the existing apartments at Minnesota…

Coffee table books often feature photos of wild, pristine places. But there’s a new coffee table book dedicated to a landscape closer to home — one often not associated with natural beauty. Local photographer Krista Schlyer spent the past…

Get free food, apply for utility assistance, help your struggling neighbors, exercise, clean your closets, volunteer, shout your anger into a phone.

Every day after school, children impatiently wait their turn to enter the homework help room at Horton’s Kids Community Resource Center. As they fidget in line, they can’t help but notice the high school diplomas and graduation pictures of…