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The planned sale of Metro’s hulking downtown headquarters could be a game-changer for Penn Quarter. As the agency’s rezoning request for the property heads to a public hearing in two weeks, residents and officials have started imagining…

Metro acknowledges service is a key factor driving its ridership decline. A new analysis provides insight into who is abandoning the system.

The word had been on the streets since 2017 about a documentary that would chronicle the development of go-go – D.C.’s homegrown musical creation. Now, the wait’s finally over. On Monday, Sept. 10 at the historic Lincoln Theatre in…

Facing a court battle, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) moved this week to alter the composition of the panel advising her on finding a schools chief — a decision that underscores the high stakes involved with installing a chancellor.

A top aide to D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) who has been caught up in multiple ethics investigations over the past 18 months is stepping down, city officials announced Friday. Courtney R. Snowden, the deputy mayor for greater economic…

Guess who's back! The D.C. Council returns from its summer recess on September 17 with no shortage of issues on the docket. These next few months are particularly important because they're the final ones of this two-year council session.…

Nearly six months ago, UrbanTurf reported on the plans filed for a mixed-use redevelopment of Tenleytown's former Dancing Crab restaurant. Now, we are getting a more detailed look at the project.

A recent land deal in D.C.’s flourishing NoMa neighborhood could help transform a long-untapped intersection where two major thoroughfares meet into a hub of housing and retail. Inked at $25.5 million, the deal makes way for a mixed-use…

The fate of a wage hike approved by voters for servers, bartenders and other tipped workers in the nation’s capital comes before the D.C. Council on Monday. A majority of the council wants to repeal the measure, which was passed by 56 …

Ahh. With fall just around the corner, what better way to introduce a season-opening show titled B 22-913 Tipped Wage Workers Fairness Amendment Act of 2018 and starring the same Democratic lawmakers who take longer summer breaks than most…

The District could halve its emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change if the DC Council passes clean energy legislation that was introduced over the summer, according to internal DC government numbers.

The fountains at Meridian Hill Park are off, again, due to a leak in a pipe that provides water to the cascades. The good news is that work is underway to repair them, but residents are beginning to wonder just how frequently they'll have…

On Friday, September 14, DC Superior Court will hear a preliminary injunction on a case that challenges the legality of the panel established by Mayor Muriel Bowser to find a new District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) Chancellor.

On Thursday, the District and developers opened the inaugural affordable housing project in the city to contain apartments designated for “grandfamilies,” or households headed by grandparents who are raising grandchildren. Plaza West, as…

When hurricanes and other extreme weather events head towards the District, there's a focus on preparing the city's most flood-prone areas. But what about places that are already pretty wet, like D.C.'s neighborhood of houseboats?

Metro wants to start charging rush-hour prices during high-attendance public events such as the Women’s March and the March for Our Lives, and they’re seeking input from riders about the idea.

Just a year after sluggish household income reports in the District of Columbia prompted speculation that the city’s boom years were ending, new numbers from the Census Bureau released Thursday suggests District household income has swung…

The American rite of passage known as a traffic ticket can ruin a good day and tank a bad one. But in D.C., where tickets top off at $300, double if unpaid after 30 days, and are issued in perverse abundance via automated cameras, traffic…

Some might have called it irreverent, and others will praise it. But in an era where students are challenging the icons of American history, none of that was lost on the Hamilton stage. Across the United States, the cast of Hamilton has…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser held an inaugural summit on maternal and infant health Wednesday, marking almost a year since two maternity wards in the District’s poorest wards shut down amid increased attention on health disparities among…