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WASHINGTON — Across the Metro system, some tunnels are completely dark, which could make emergency evacuations difficult. Whack-a-mole efforts to contain water leaks are only partially making progress with some steady flows remaining, and…

Ward 8 Council member Trayon White recently convened a State of the Ward Summit during which citizens from all corners of Southeast, not White, did most of the talking, making known their concerns about government response, senior services,…

Howard University has received $500,000 from the National Park Service (NPS) Foundation to implement handicap accessibility renovations at Founders Library. Eighteen institutions received a total of $8.6 million in grant funding to support…

Meredith Kinner dashes across Rhode Island Avenue, Northeast, to perform a weekly ritual familiar to many D.C. residents — moving the car for street cleaning. It’s annoying and it can be hard to find parking, but Kinner knows there’s a…

If you ever wanted to go to a bar that serves pizza and hosts TEDTalks, this is probably your best opportunity. Local chain &pizza and event programmer Broccoli City are collaborating to open a bar in Shaw that wants to be a gathering…

The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) voted 29-2 Wednesday to approve Visualize 2045 — a regional plan for $291 billion worth of projects to optimize transportation for the additional 1.2 million people projected to live…

D.C. Council members ramped up pressure on Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to halt the controversial closure of a hospital in Northeast Washington, unanimously approving legislation this week that empowers her administration to force hospitals…

The District’s public school system is partnering with Bard College in New York to open a school next fall that will allow students to graduate from high school with a two-year college associate degree. The city hopes a liberal arts college…

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced a series of lawsuits on Wednesday targeting the owners and managers of buildings in wards 7 and 8 for issues ranging from building neglect—resulting in vermin and mold, among other conditions—to a…

WASHINGTON — Optimism and a sense of urgency surround a move to legalize sports betting in D.C., where leaders hope to beat Maryland and Virginia to the punch. “Sports betting is going to happen and I believe we should act before our…

A proposal to legalize sports betting in Washington is moving forward after the bill sponsor again affirmed he has secured the necessary support. If passed, Washington would join eight states that have legalized the activity. Five of those…

It’s been almost seven months since the epic spring hearing on the DC Comprehensive Plan, a planning and land use document that guides how the city will grow for years to come. Yesterday, October 16 the DC Office of Planning (OP) released…

UrbanTurf has learned that Brooklyn's Other Half brewery will open a DC outpost at the former Pappas Tomato Factory at 1401 Okie Street NE (map). The Douglas Development-owned property will also be home to a Compass Coffee and a Kick Axe…

After missing more than two months of coursework, senior Sherwayne Carter is back in the classroom at Duke Ellington School of the Arts. But his mother could still face a $12,000 fine in the residency fraud case that has turned their lives…

Opaline Bar and Brasserie at Washington D.C.’s Sofitel Hotel was too crowded, so I’d gone out to find another breakfast spot. I wasn’t dressed for the autumn morning chill—the temperature must have dropped 30 degrees from the day before,…

The Oct. 12 editorial decrying a rise in homicides in the District, “A rising D.C. death toll,” praised the D.C. police for “dispatching extra officers and doubling down on seizures of illegal guns” in Ward 8. The editorial went on to…

This year, in an unusual showing, some D.C. State Board of Education candidates have raised a considerable amount of money ahead of the Nov. 6 election. State board members have had limited authority in the District, but given the scandals…

It was nearly a month ago that fire drove about 160 residents from their homes at the Arthur Capper Senior Apartments near the Navy Yard, and the displaced seniors are yearning to know where they'll have new places to call home.

D.C. residents are some of the most burdened by student debt in the country. Now, a new bill seeks to lighten some of that load. The legislation, called the Student Loan Authority Establishment Act and introduced today by At-Large…

Some time in 1992, Dale Johnson started noticing an odd assemblage of items on the basement workbench of her husband, James McMahon: broken shards of mirrored glass, mainly. “I was like, ‘I don’t know what this is. I’m not asking any…