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In an email to members this week, Capital Bikeshare announced that it was updating its terms of service as of Sept. 5. But beneath the legalese was a brief preview of new bikes. “We have some exciting additions coming to the Capital…

The bulk of Providence Hospital's 12-member board of directors was abruptly fired last night via an email sent on behalf of the hospital's managing body, according to a copy of the email obtained by City Paper. 

The District’s 30-year-old Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, or TOPA, is designed to prevent tenants from being kicked out by landlords planning to sell their properties. It gives renters an opportunity to buy the properties with the…

The D.C. police top brass and leadership at the Fraternal Order of Police have reached a new collective bargaining agreement. This is the first contract that did not require impasse or arbitration since 2001, per Mayor Muriel Bowser's…

Last month, they showed up outside her house. But tomorrow, advocates for the homeless will go to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office at the John A. Wilson Building to demand that her administration pause demolition work on the campus of the…

Melissa Esposito walked two miles in the snow to get to her third prenatal appointment. It had been so hard to get a time with the doctor, she was scared to reschedule. Danielle Lloyd endured pregnancy in the food and maternal care desert…

The housing cooperative model is an attractive proposition for many in fast-developing Washington, which is experiencing one of the worst shortages in affordable housing in the country

In a city of monuments, the Franklin School is one of just 18 buildings with both its interior and exterior designated for historical protection — the highest level the city can bestow. It’s also a National Historic Landmark, a distinction…

The District announced it is extending its dockless bike and scooter pilot program through the end of the year — with one new wrinkle. Starting in September, riders will have to lock dockless bikes to racks or street signs. More permanent…

Just hours after breaking ground on a $489 million project to transform the barren parking lots surrounding RFK Stadium into playing fields for the city’s children, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Wednesday left no doubt about the…

The charges that Phyllis Black outlines against her landlord in a sworn affidavit are sweeping and shocking. But if there’s one thing she wants him to know, it’s this: She isn’t leaving her home. In the nearly two years she’s lived at 711…

If only this house could talk. For 180 years the small, stone “miracle” has witnessed the passing of history on the southwest corner of 17th Street and what is now Constitution Avenue. Battered by time, nature, and neglect, the onetime…

FROM AFFORDABLE housing to Metro to the occasional water-supply glitch, the District has its share of issues and problems. It is our job to hold the city accountable on those subjects but, just now, we’d like to focus on the bigger picture:…

Curiosity led Vernesha Poindexter to walk outside when she heard the gunfire. She didn’t know then that 42 bullets had been fired down a nearby street in Southeast D.C. She didn’t know that at least eight of those bullets had hit a…

WASHINGTON — The District’s bright red fleet of Capital Bikeshare bikes will soon be joined by pedal-assist versions. D.C. Department of Transportation officials won’t comment publicly, but the social media account for the program has been…

The first red flags seemed obvious: Row after row of signatures written in the same handwriting. Some appeared twice. A few belonged to a rival candidate’s staffers. Now, three of the people listed as signature collectors for S. Kathryn…

As the D.C. Republican Party fields three candidates this November, the party announced a fundraiser that will feature Sean Spicer, the former press secretary for President Donald Trump.

For more than 70 years, a mansion on 16th Street has housed one of D.C.’s lesser-known art gems on its walls. Roberto Cueva del Rio’s Embassy murals line the elaborate staircase and three stories of the Mexican Cultural Institute of D.C.,…

The owners and occupants of a property in Northeast D.C. have violated city environmental laws repeatedly by spilling oil into neighborhood streets and threatening local waterways for the past 10 years, according to a lawsuit Attorney…

Last spring, EDENS-affiliate EAJ 1309 5th Street, LLC applied for a two-year extension for plans that would expand and construct a companion building to Union Market. Now, with the exit of development partner Great Gulf, plans may be…