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A year ago, the District of Columbia Housing Finance Agency announced funding for an all-affordable development across from the Anacostia Metro station. Now, the project is poised to deliver this year.

The diminishing financial clout of deep-pocketed donors was on display this week in public campaign finance reports, as top candidates turned to public financing and hundreds of small donors.

The “gray” marijuana market in the District is out-competing the city’s regulated medical cannabis marketplace, according to council members who want to rescue dispensary businesses.

Nine-year-old Yafet Solomen and 40-year-old Fitsum Kebede lost their lives during a fire inside 708 Kennedy Street, NW. The building was formerly a pharmacy before being transformed into an unlicensed boarding house.

On a chilly Sunday, Robert White, the at-large council member running for mayor, managed to find that rare voter willing to answer the door during a pandemic and listen to his pitch that the city needs a new leader.

A D.C. Council member is calling for changes in oversight at Duke Ellington School of the Arts just days after a News4 I-Team investigation raised questions about how the school, the school district and police handled sex abuse claims…

A new program gives some residents of D.C. who are studying for a degree in some “high-demand” career fields up to $8,000 in annual tuition assistance.

For the third time in just a month, Howard University warned its campus on Tuesday of a bomb threat. Each time, a law enforcement search found no sign of the threatened explosives.

D.C. lawmakers have passed a bill to raise the wages of those who care for the District’s youngest residents.

After spending weeks last year trying to clear up a fraudulent unemployment claim made using his personal information, D.C. resident Scott Wallace thought his problems were resolved.

The transit agency has been short of drivers this year because of a labor shortage and the omicron coronavirus variant

The council also voted to allow any senior citizen to buy medical marijuana without a doctor’s note.

Metro is digging deeper into its pocketbook in an effort to hire more bus drivers.

A new program launched Tuesday by the District will help cover the costs of college tuition for residents seeking a degree in high-demand fields at three local universities.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday approved a $309 million contract to upgrade the city’s 75,000 streetlights with high-efficiency LEDs and Wi-Fi access points, signing off on what will be the first and so far the only public-private partnership…

The Amazon co-founder donated $2.7 million to the D.C. Public Library Foundation.

The District gives up roughly $86 million in potential real property tax revenue annually from just 10 properties owned by tax-exempt organizations.

D.C. residents pursuing a degree in certain “high-demand” career fields are now eligible for up to $8,000 in annual tuition assistance under a new city program D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Tuesday.

The Ward 3 councilmember drew online outrage following her dubious assertions about a shooting at the neighborhood’s Days Inn.

Authorities are investigating a string of bomb threats affecting four historically Black universities in the Washington region.