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D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson’s efforts to cut into D.C.’s blanket eviction moratorium failed yesterday with an amendment largely backed by the body’s most progressive members.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg joined D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser at the construction site of the new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge on Wednesday. They toured the bridge, and Bowser delivered a speech about the American Jobs…

Nearly 90 former federal prosecutors are asking Attorney General Merrick Garland and the acting U.S. attorney in Washington to abandon a Trump-era policy of charging certain gun crimes in federal court amid concerns about long prison…

The General Services Administration has backed off a plan to move three federal agencies from their decadeslong home after it had sparked back-to-back lawsuits from their current landlord. The GSA filed notice in the U.S. District Court…

Head’s up D.C. — or maybe heads down.

Engaged citizens and government gadflys, take note: while can get a drink in a bar or go into a business in most of the Washington region, it may still be a while longer before you’ll be able to march into a county building or city hall…

Delivery of bill to Congress was held up due to protocols related to Jan. 6 riots

The Kennedy Street corridor is a section of DC that has seen a lot of development action in the past few years, and a new condo project looks to add more residences to the strip.

D.C.-based Eaternity — The Social Restaurant Group, which owns La Vie, Provision 14 and Bar Bao, has signed a lease for a waterfront restaurant at the recently completed RiverPoint apartment building in Buzzard Point.

Howard University plans to stand up a new hub for applied data sciences — and one of its first degrees will be shaped by Amazon Web Services, the school and company told the Washington Business Journal.

In 1966, the United Nations identified adequate housing as a fundamental human right as part of its International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. But, even as early as 1944, in his State of the Union address, with the…

Dr. Yolandra Hancock doesn’t have to read a medical journal to know how soda and other sugar-filled drinks destroy people, young and old, in the African American community and why people of color are disproportionately dying of COVID-19 at…

The DC Council opted Tuesday not to lift DC's moratorium on evictions ahead of a Friday hearing on the city's pandemic recovery.

Some Metrorail workers are ignoring safety rules they don’t agree with.

Metro rail cars that were sidelined in November after multiple incidents of cars separating while in service will stay off line, safety inspectors said Tuesday.

A massive development plan for D.C. that lawmakers revisit every two decades is now on its way to the mayor’s desk. The D.C. Council also extended the ban on evictions and utility shut-offs.

Advocates for the District’s hospitality industry are making a push for $200 million in aid to to support struggling hotel owners as the Bowser administration prepares its budget request for fiscal 2022 later in May.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser expects all 50,000 DC Public School students to return to school buildings in the fall.

On Tuesday afternoon, the DC Council unanimously approved the amended Comprehensive Plan, potentially clearing the path for a logjam of development citywide to move forward.

During a recent D.C. Council hearing, Patrice Sulton, a civil rights lawyer, began to scold Charles Allen, chair of the council’s judiciary committee. At issue was whether the District should create its own parole board, and Sutton, who is…