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For the latest in adventurous urban living, look no further than the proposed development in Washington’s Dupont Circle neighborhood, where a builder plans to offer tenants the rare opportunity to reside underground.

At some point soon, as early as this week, the Council will vote on legislation for an education research collaborative—an independent research body that will conduct studies on the city’s public schools. The idea is to better determine how…

The former Fannie Mae headquarters will be renamed City Ridge as it undergoes a transformation into a mixed-use urban village, anchored by Wegmans’ first D.C. store.

Multifamily construction has continued at a rapid pace in recent years as the D.C. region looks to house its growing population. With Amazon now planning to create 25,000 new jobs over the next decade, significant housing development will…

Rigorous research on public education systems can be revelatory: Knowledge that researchers generate through their study of school data can change education practices, policies and schools. But to do so, researchers must be able to hold an…

The votes have been counted, the election certified, the incumbents returning to their seats. So what’s going on in Ward 4?

Four times a day, each and every weekday, a choreographed dance of the streets happens across the District. A number of lanes of traffic, and in some cases entire roadways, change direction for the duration of rush hour.

The Greater Washington Partnership — a group of high-profile CEOs representing the Baltimore-Washington-Richmond corridor — is out with its long-bandied report on how to pull the three cities together into a powerful super region with an…

An alliance of the region’s top chief executives is urging ambitious, costly steps to improve commuter rail, bus networks and other transportation systems to reduce chronic traffic congestion and bind together the “super region” stretching…

The Anacostia River used to be a dumping ground for Washington’s trash, sewage and industrial waste. Now there’s a massive cleanup effort, and the city has declared 2018 “the year of the Anacostia.” But for D.C. musician Brent Peterson, the…

How much was a single vote worth in this month’s D.C. State Board of Education elections? Maybe $3? $5? Even $8?

From the Mall to Lincoln, Neb., planners across the United States are pushing slow-rolling roboshuttles as a way to dip their toes into greater automation.

WASHINGTON — Metro’s Yellow Line falls off the map for two weeks starting the Monday after Thanksgiving (Nov. 26) as the transit agency shuts down the bridge over the Potomac River for repairs.

The Little Free Library went up a week after the inauguration, its wooden walls painted to evoke the White House eight blocks away. But if the book box coincided with President Trump taking office, its tiny plaque pined for the previous…

Robin McKinney wasn’t wearing the right shirt. She also didn’t have all of her supplies. But the night was warm for mid-November, and that had gotten her worried. So she went anyway, pulling up to a Southeast Washington park hit hard by…

It wasn’t quite Bush v. Gore and the Case of the Hanging Chad, but as Tommy Curtis reminded Answer Man recently, the District once had its own drawn-out, contested election. It was not dissimilar to this month’s lengthy, laborious and…

There is a cautionary tale for the expansion of the District’s streetcar system in a recent think-tank report: Don’t expect that streetcars alone will bring renewed prosperity to the neighborhoods they serve.

Housing and poverty gaps in the District of Columbia remain imperative topics discussed by local Black residents as little seems to be done policy-wise about the issues. This past Wednesday the Urban Institute released an interactive tool…

Taahir Kelly may be a track star at Roosevelt High School, but nothing makes his face light up more than when he’s talking about all the cooking he’s done at the school through his culinary arts classes.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s decision to express annoyance about a condiment beloved by many in the nation’s capital on a week when people were planning their holiday spreads was perplexing for many reasons.