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None of the bartenders with political ambitions got the "Nightlife Mayor" gig. No surprise there. Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser named Shawn Townsend to the position, whose official title is "Director of The Mayor's Office of Nightlife and…

Three senior officials at the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs were fired this week, less than 10 days after the agency’s director,  Melinda Bolling, announced that she was leaving for another job.

What's it like for a retiree on a fixed income to live in a place where everything new seems geared toward millennials?

Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White has asked Jack Evans, Ward 2 Councilmember and chairman of the Council's finance and revenue committee, not to mark up a bill that would divert some $60 million in tax increment bond financing to a…

One of Capitol Hill’s most-beloved used bookstores is shuttering after 17 years consigning rare books, giving out dog treats to neighborhood pups, and serving afternoon tea for a loyal band of local customers. Riverby Books on East Capitol…

Former director Melinda Bolling and three high level employees leave behind a FOIA lawsuit and lingering problems.

For a long time, the Anacostia River didn’t even have a name. It was just the Eastern Branch, the other, less promising section of Washington, D.C.’s better known and more distinguished river, the Potomac. But it was always known as a…

WASHINGTON -- A D.C. high school with an historic past will soon get a new building in the heart of the city, but not without some controversy.

The District has struggled to recruit candidates to fill the city’s top education job, which has sat vacant nine months, according to a top elected official.

WASHINGTON — D.C. is set to see a surge in dockless scooters and bike-share bicycles after a dozen companies applied for the city’s new permits.

The historic Takoma Theatre, redeveloped by Rock Creek Property Group and soon home to a satellite clinic for Children’s National Hospital, has signed two retail tenants: Lost Sock Roasters, a small-batch coffee roaster, and Turning…

A unanimous D.C. Council gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a major climate change legislation with some last-minute revisions that worry environmentalists.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to legislation that would move the District’s power grid to entirely renewable energy sources by 2032, a goal that places the city in the vanguard of local governments seeking to tackle…

The effort is the most ambitious renewable energy goal of any city or state in the country.

For the first time in human history, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities, a shift that is resulting in new challenges. The Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Community Museum, with its 50th anniversary exhibition, A…

One Hecht of a redevelopment: Brewers and distillers have moved into Ivy City and brought life to the once-sleepy northeast neighborhood. A massive redevelopment project on the New York Avenue corridor seems sure to accelerate the…

Earlier this month, D.C.’s Office of the State Superintendent (OSSE) quietly released an update on the school residency fraud case at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

A neighborhood advisory panel in Washington that typically focuses on liquor license applications and other local concerns is inserting itself into the international furor prompted by the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last month at…

The Scottish Rite Masonic temple in Dupont Circle plans to build apartments on some empty space behind its building. One element of the project is two levels of apartments below the ground level. This has raised the question: is underground…

The Initiative 77 chess match continues.