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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is bringing a DC statehood bill to the House floor for a vote on April 22. We chatted with him about how the fight has changed since a similar bill was passed last year.

After years of public debate, the D.C. Council advanced amendments to a massive blueprint that guides development and growth for the city. The Comprehensive Plan, or Comp Plan, as it’s called, was last re-written in 2006 and amended in…

Trinity Washington University will require students and employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19 before the fall semester, the school announced Tuesday.

An affiliate of JBG Smith Properties (NYSE: JBGS) is exploring the sale of 500 L'Enfant Plaza, a nearly fully leased office building it developed in 2019, as it seeks to raise more capital for future investment opportunities.

The sun is setting on Friday night at D.C.’s newest national memorial along Pennsylvania Avenue. Earlier in the day, as part of a ceremony, a U.S. flag was raised for the first time signifying that the World War I Memorial in Pershing Park…

The university said classes offered in the department will be dispersed to other academic units

Six years after Mayor Muriel Bowser committed DC to the goal of ensuring that “no lives are lost on our streets or at our intersections,” DC is on pace for its deadliest year of traffic violence in over a decade.

The city-owned site that was the subject of DC's first EquityRFP may be redeveloped using an equity-focused model.

The owner of the popular Madam’s Organ blues bar and restaurant in Adams Morgan, said he has asked D.C.’s mayor for permission to fully reopen, by requiring every person in the club provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19.

Legislation that would make the District the 51st state is scheduled for a House vote on Thursday — and the prospects of the federal city achieving statehood received at least a ceremonial boost on Tuesday.

Downtown D.C.’s travel and leisure industry is slowly but surely recovering from the depths of the pandemic, but it could take until next year for hotel occupancy in the city's central business district to inch past the halfway mark…

The DC Council moved forward proposed revisions to the Comprehensive Plan on Tuesday, amending Mayor Muriel Bowser's proposed version of the planning document.

(CNN) — Capitol Hill security forces abruptly reversed plans to reinstall outer perimeter fencing on Capitol Complex grounds meant to protect against potential unrest related to the high-profile trial of former Minneapolis police officer…

D.C.’s Woodrow Wilson High School may soon have a partial name change.

London Williams and Stephanie Toledo were on a date when they saw the crowd at Black Lives Matter Plaza. The couple stopped and crouched around an iPhone, streaming the scene from Minneapolis. Williams anxiously clutched his masked face.

Rep. Nancy Mace on Tuesday offered reporters her opinion on why D.C. should not be granted statehood.

The jury has made its decision and found a former Minneapolis police officer guilty in the killing of George Floyd, whose death last summer sparked worldwide protests calling for police reform.

A deep sense of relief rippled across the nation’s capital shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday as the guilty verdicts in the trial of Derek Chauvin were announced in a Minnesota courtroom. George Floyd died 1,100 miles from Washington, but his…

The D.C. Council on Tuesday advanced amendments to the massive blueprint that will shape city development in coming years, though several lawmakers voiced concerns that the changes do not adequately address systemic racial and…

Gingkos are one of D.C.’s iconic trees — second only, perhaps, to the famous blossoming cherry trees. The ginkgo’s unique, fan-shaped leaves turn a shocking yellow in the fall, creating corridors of autumnal color, then drop all at once,…