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There’s little traffic out front of The Rise Building at Temple Courts on an overcast Friday, save for an occasional polished sedan with darkened windows rolling by.

When Le’Greg Harrison was growing up in Congress Heights, people would warn him against riding his bicycle through the neighborhood. Back then, he says, many thought of Wards 7 and 8 as unsafe.

The Bowser administration is presenting two downtown events on Monday to commemorate Juneteenth 2023.

House Republicans fell short yesterday in their effort to override President Joe Biden's veto of a resolution disapproving the District's police reform law.

New store, who dis? The new Lidl grocery store coming to Columbia Heights has set an opening date: Wednesday, June 28. It will join another first: the Whole Foods coming to The Parks at Walter Reed, which opens the same day.

The House of Representatives on Tuesday evening failed to override President Joe Biden’s veto of a Republican-sponsored resolution that would have blocked a police discipline and accountability bill passed by the D.C. Council. The vote was…

A former executive of D.C.'s sports gambling operator tried to blow up the city's $215 million contract and sideline the firm overseeing its troubled app.

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) joined the side of Delta Airlines in supporting expanding long-haul flights out of Reagan National Airport.

The D.C. Council voted Tuesday to keep duties of the city’s embattled crime lab independent of the D.C. police, rejecting Mayor Muriel Bowser’s budget proposal that would’ve transferred the lab’s crime scene sciences division to the…

The days of cars blocking bus-only lanes may soon be coming to an end.

The DC Council voted unanimously this afternoon to approve an amended version of the Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Support Act after opting to maintain an exemption from the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act for any new office-to-residential…

City leaders marked progress Monday in the multimillion-dollar transformation of a former sand filtration facility in Northwest Washington that has been the subject of multiple lawsuits and protests into a hub of community amenities and…

Two years after a messy fight over how the city gives grants to arts groups, some commissioners fear the new budget would move things backward.

For years the McMillan Sand Filtration Site along North Capitol Street NW was fenced off and largely inaccessible. Large concrete silos punctuated a grassy expanse whose plans for redevelopment were mired in legal and political squabbling.…

The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH) is once again butting heads with D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson over arts funding. With the council’s final vote on amendments to the 2024 D.C. budget taking place on Tuesday, the…

After a months-long emergency closure, the Wilson Aquatic Center in Tenleytown — one of D.C.’s largest public pools — reopened on Monday, June 12.

D.C. regulators say Intralot isn’t meeting the terms of its deal to run the city’s sports wagering system. The company blames a politically connected subcontractor.

As construction proceeds on the long-controversial redevelopment of the shuttered McMillan Sand Filtration Plant site, Mayor Muriel Bowser and city leaders today held a "beam signing" ceremony to highlight progress on a community center,…

Education requirements for D.C.’s early childhood caregivers introduced in 2016 are set to begin this year. But within the already strained workforce, some educators are still holding out.

The D.C. Public Library’s archival work is preserving more than a century of the city’s history, and City Paper’s as well.