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Call it the wage increase that wasn’t. In June, 10 percent of registered D.C. voters supported Initiative 77, a ballot measure to raise the base wage for tipped employees by 200 percent. Proponents of the measure portrayed this low-turnout…

This fall, the D.C. Council is expected to join other local jurisdictions in considering regulations for short-term, Airbnb-style rentals in which homes and apartments function as hotels. Council members should learn from the…

Next week, the Council will reconvene until this legislative period concludes in December. Over the coming months, my colleagues and I will work feverishly on a wide range of legislative topics. One piece of legislation that I will focus on…

For thousands of D.C. children, the week after Labor Day means the thrill of a new soccer season and hours spent preparing for opening weekend games. But this year, as last year, there has been a jarring surprise: shuttered fields and…

The D.C. Department of Public Works will send out some of its officers on bikes to "better understand the issues District cyclists face, and address these issues in real time," DPW Director Chris Shorter says.

DCW50 News at 10, a local news broadcast in Washington, is folding at the end of this month. The last broadcast will be on September 28, and all of the station's photographers and reporters will lose their jobs. NBC4's Mark Segraves was the…

Students always have jitters at the start of the school year. But for children of immigrant families, going back to school means overcoming a unique set of fears that others may not share.

Henry David Thoreau, America’s nature writer, once wrote, “Live the life you’ve dreamed.” Steve McKindley-Ward, arborist and urban forester for DC, is following this solid advice. Steve says he has been blessed to follow his dream of having…

City investigators have concluded their examination into whether the former chancellor of D.C. Public Schools and the former deputy mayor for education — both of whom resigned this year amid controversy — violated the District’s code of…

DC's Department of General Services announced Thursday night that 15 recreational fields across the District failed testing. The reason — the artificial turf fields, which are filled with tire rubber crumbs, are too hard.

Wouldn’t you know? Just as low-income and middle-class residents began breathing the slightest sighs of relief thanks to federal tax cuts, the District’s progressive pickpockets are raising taxes. Beginning Oct. 1, the start of the fiscal…

Thanks to the District’s growing economy, the city is collecting a lot more tax revenue this year than expected, creating an immediate opportunity to meet some of the city’s most urgent needs, like housing and schools. This is a chance to…

One of the busiest corners in the fast-growing NoMa neighborhood could soon be developed into a mixed-use project.  Aria Development Group bought the Exxon property at the corner of Florida Avenue and North Capitol Street for $25.5M from…

The D.C. Board of Elections is scheduled to hold a hearing Friday on allegations of signature fraud that could derail the candidacy of S. Kathryn Allen, the business community’s pick for an at-large seat on the D.C. Council.

A spokesperson for Mayor Muriel Bowser confirms that the majority of staff members in the Mayor's Office of Community Relations and Services––including 13 Ward-based liaisons and the agency's director––have been reassigned to different city…

Most conventional debates over gentrification in DC position the process as one that replaces long-time black residents with newer, wealthier white residents. Given the context, this framing makes sense: DC has a well-established black…

Since his release from prison weeks ago, Kareem McCraney has spent time wandering around Washington, barely recognizing the places where he grew up. The apartments and homes he knew have been replaced by upscale shops and condos.

WASHINGTON — Why should anyone care about a restaurant that closed 24 years ago? In the case of one Duke Zeibert’s, it’s because the restaurant holds a unique place in the history of the nation’s capital — and, to an extent, a unique place…

“Hold this. How much do you think it weighs?” Will Crane hands me a plastic garbage bag, the kind you buy at grocery stores, careful to have me grasp it by the top. The bottom hangs low and limp. I think I know what’s inside. I don’t think…

Washingtonians: Meet the first baby of the District — and on national television, no less. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) introduced her daughter Miranda to a national audience on Thursday in an interview with “Today” host Hoda Kotb.