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An advocacy group plans to appeal a court order that foiled its effort to hold a new election on a wages for tipped workers that had been approved by D.C. voters but overturned by the D.C. Council.

As far as official government reports go, this one might be a collector’s edition.

The balancing act between providing service to late-night riders and doing preventative maintenance is getting a deeper look after the D.C. members of the Metro board demanded a return to 3 a.m. weekend and midnight weeknight closures.

D.C. Public Schools are intentionally falling short of providing the required science and social studies instructional time in at least four middle schools, a violation of its own standards, a News4 I-Team investigation found.

While DC has traditionally hosted a large share of residents who moved here from across the country, there is the mistaken impression that it is a city of transplants rather than a place with a distinct culture where people have…

Here’s something most everybody living in D.C. already knows: This city looks very different today than it did in the relatively recent past. In the last 10 to 20 years, large numbers of newcomers have dramatically changed the landscape of…

Exactly one year and one day after former “Top Chef” star and restaurateur Mike Isabella opened a 41,000-square-foot multi-restaurant concept in the Tysons Galleria, he announced he is shutting down his entire company — once, one of the…

WASHINGTON — A plan for an aerial gondola connecting Georgetown with Rosslyn over the Potomac was first floated more than five years ago, and a feasibility study in 2016 seemed to give the idea some credibility.

Federal Judge Christopher Cooper had fun with this one. Cooper, of the U.S. District Court for D.C., issued a pun-filled ruling Wednesday on the case pitting J&J Sports Productions Inc. against Tesfit Kiflu, owner of D.C.’s Cloud…

A D.C. court has rejected an activist group's appeal of Foulger-Pratt's $200 million planned development near Union Market.

A group of elected D.C. neighborhood commissioners is asking campaign finance authorities to investigate allegations that D.C. Council Member Brandon T. Todd (D-Ward 4) used government resources to promote a school board candidate.

Earlier this year, UrbanTurf opined about the complexities of building an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in DC and the lack of easy tools that can help determine whether a structure is feasible. Now, just such a feasibility tool has come to…

“I think people often forget or don’t recognize that urban areas are actually part of nature, too."

The riders' group hopes new rules and a liaison to the board will make things different.

Critics say it's too onerous for contractors and too out of step with the economic landscape of D.C.

The crisis line saves lives, but can be a difficult stop on mental-health survivors' journeys toward hope.

Local music venues hope D.C. will rival Austin, Nashville and New Orleans for live music.

D.C. Council Member David Grosso (I-At Large) on Wednesday urged Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), the city’s nonvoting congresswoman, to do all she could to block what he called a “backdoor attempt” to pave the way for the Washington Redskins to…

Mike Isabella’s restaurant group is going out of business and many of its restaurants could close as early as the end of the year, according to new filings in the disgraced chef’s bankruptcy case.

The District has always been home to a large contingent of transplants. Some of these new residents never leave, while others remain here for only a short period of time. D.C.-born residents have never accounted for a large majority of the…