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A recently released study of Census data tracks where upward mobility is most likely to be enjoyed by a child born into various circumstances. For the District of Columbia, some of those results may be surprising. Today, UrbanTurf explores…

On Tuesday, D.C. officials will ceremonially début a new family homeless shelter at 5004 D St. SE in Marshall Heights as part of the plan to close and replace the derelict D.C. General shelter. The soon-to-open facility will house 35…

Two large developments planned in D.C. could get a significant financial boost with the approval of two pieces of recently introduced legislation that would provide the projects with more than $100 million in tax-increment financing.

After Areeg Abu El Hawa and a friend were hit by a car while in a Tenleytown crosswalk, all she could think about was her suddenly numb arm. She is studying medicine with dreams of being a surgeon. After being sent airborne by a car as she…

Sexist slurs referring to female dogs and prostitutes, with a few letters replaced by asterisks. Crude references to bodies and sex. Cracks about racial and ethnic groups. Those were some of the glaring problems with the initial version of…

On the day that Christine Blasey Ford described her alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh and testified about his “uproarious laughter,” Jessica Raven was compelled to step up in a way she’d never expected. At…

Just four months after District voters approved an initiative to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers, the D.C. Council voted to overturn it. It might seem like an odd fate for Initiative 77, which got 55 percent of the popular vote in…

Ronald Mason, president of the University of the District of Columbia, is once again the highest-paid person on the District payroll, according to data provided by the city and compiled by the Washington Business Journal. With a 2018 salary…

Metro’s leaders have said publicly that they have no clear solution to the system’s ridership decline, but an internal document dated May of this year shows otherwise; it lays out a detailed plan for increasing riders on the nation’s…

The Coalition for Smarter Growth, a pro-transit group that backed Metro’s dedicated funding push, said the time has come to increase service.

Among Karl A. Racine’s duties as the District’s attorney general, prosecuting crimes committed by juveniles can be the most challenging — especially sex offenses. As we all learned after watching last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee…

Just when you thought DC’s boom of celebrity chef-driven steakhouses was waning, here’s another: Cut by Wolfgang Puck. The “contemporary twist on the classic steakhouse” will open inside Georgetown’s Rosewood hotel in Spring 2019. In…

Another planned-unit development in DC bites the dust. Last month, the development team behind the PUD intended to replace the Rhode Island Avenue Shopping Center (map) requested that the Zoning Commission "extinguish" the approved plans…

A short walk directly north from the National Mall sits Washington, D.C.’s famed Carnegie Library. Opened in 1903, the District’s first central library is named for Gilded Age steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. Just four years earlier, in a…

America’s drug problem continues to evolve in startling and dangerous ways, and the District of Columbia remains at the forefront of those changes. Drug overdose continues to be a leading cause of death in the United States; according to…

Imagine if each year a company lost about a quarter of its staff, and after five years over half the employees were new. That’s what’s happening with teachers in public schools in D.C., according to a new report commissioned by D.C.’s State…

While summertime, particularly the month of August, is notoriously slow for the housing market, local real estate experts suggest that the fall market is picking up steam in the District. “Across the board, in every price range in the city,…

One of the first things Vanessa Drumm-Canepa did after becoming principal of Langley Elementary in the District three years ago was redesign the school’s tiger mascot. The old tiger was a fearsome beast. Drumm-Canepa wanted the new one to…

WASHINGTON — The Caps are poised to start their 2018-2019 season, which means it’s time to raise the Stanley Cup Champions banner at Capital One Arena. And even those who can’t get inside to see the history firsthand Wednesday night will…

WASHINGTON -- Mayor Muriel Bowser's office had some big news Tuesday for a major mixed-use development east of the Anacostia River. The office announced that it introduced a bill to provide tax increment financing for the Reunion Square…