ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Chesapeake Bay watershed received an overall grade of C+ on its latest report card, released Monday by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
Pierre Charles L’Enfant’s DC street design resembling the spokes of a wheel was built to move carts, horses, and, later, trolleys. Overlaid on L’Enfant’s wheel spokes was a network of wide streets that were designed to move cars in and out!-->…
A set of last-minute changes to D.C.’s proposed new boundaries for the city’s Advisory Neighborhood Commissions are prompting furious pushback by critics who say that they undo months of painstaking work, largely to mollify small yet vocal!-->…
The DC Council may end up debating in some detail tomorrow how Ward 3's neighborhoods and commercial districts should be grouped into advisory neighborhood commissions.
The Armed Forces Retirement Home is moving ahead with a nearly 5 million-square-foot redevelopment of part of its campus — what will be one of the largest projects of its kind in Greater Washington once it finally gets underway.
When D.C. voters look at their ballots for this month’s Democratic primary, they’ll have to choose one candidate in each race, sometimes from a long list — in Ward 3, nine people are on the ballot for the council seat; in Ward 5, seven!-->…
In the middle of October in 1962, a nondescript office building in a not-great part of Washington suddenly became very, very busy and very, very important. The future of the world depended on what was going on inside 501 K St. NW.
Guests can now book a room in the Waldorf Astoria Washington D.C., the new hotel brand that’s taken over the Old Post Office Building that once bore the name of former president Donald Trump.
A U.S. Capitol Police officer has been indicted by a federal grand jury after allegedly crashing his police car into a motorized cyclist, injuring them, and then fleeing the scene and trying to cover up his involvement in the incident. The!-->…
The production staff at Shakespeare Theatre Company has filed for union recognition, citing labor issues including low wages compared to other regional theaters and unfair treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic.