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Howard University has announced its next president, Ben Vinson III, a current provost, vice president, and history professor at Case Western Reserve University. Vinson, a historian of the African diaspora in Latin America, will take over…

The D.C. Council unanimously passed emergency legislation Tuesday that aims to ensure that food delivery companies like DoorDash and UberEats don’t overcharge restaurants for basic services.

District officials have stopped placing migrant families arriving on buses from Texas and Arizona and by other means in hotels meant as temporary lodging, telling those people that there is no more room, the city’s Department of Human…

With the District's program to house migrants in area hotels having reached capacity, the chair of the DC Council's Housing Committee is urging the mayor to use contingency reserves so the city can provide temporary shelter to new…

Ben Vinson III is now provost of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland

D.C.’s leaders are again divided over how to fix downtown’s decline amid the rise of teleworking and the absence of federal workers.

Two hours after the doors of Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library opened on Monday to residents on the city’s waiting list for public housing, 53-year-old Michelle Jennings was still inching along the first floor.

DC's enforcement of its traffic laws is drawing scrutiny, with newly reported data indicating that hundreds of drivers — most of them from Maryland and Virginia — have racked up repeated tickets but remain on the roadways.

Charles Allen’s plans to fund free Metrobus service by raiding the downtown project have gradually attracted more support.

You may be paying a little more for that pasta primavera or bacon cheeseburger at your favorite lunch spot in D.C.

Georgetown University is pitching a significant redevelopment of its Gewirz Student Center building near Capitol Hill.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday pushed back against a pair of budget proposals from the D.C. Council which she decried as “downtown killers” that would hamper the city’s plans to help revitalize the ailing area.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Monday criticized the D.C. Council’s plan to pay for free Metrobus service at the expense of a long-planned downtown transit project that she said is critical to rejuvenating the downtown corridor amid…

The H Street NE AutoZone and its large surface parking lot would turn into 200 apartments under a new redevelopment proposal.

As DC Council members work to finalize a budget proposal for initial consideration in two weeks, Mayor Muriel Bowser is decrying two proposals that she casts as detrimental to fostering a resurgence in downtown DC.

A D.C. council member is advocating to include a $2 surcharge on rideshare trips, hoping to encourage more people to use public transit and decrease traffic congestion.

The retirement of D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III — who plans to take a top-level position with the FBI — is the latest in a string of high-profile departures from the administration of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), who is months into…

People incarcerated in D.C. and their advocates filed a federal lawsuit against the District this week, alleging that the city’s Department of Corrections does not provide prisoners the medical care that the Constitution demands.

D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III announced this week that he will leave his post on June 3, after just two years in the top job, to become an assistant director at the FBI. It’s a blow to the community that in part follows his…

Jose Chaj looks unhappy when told that his preferred bus may not show up anymore. “That’s not good,” the 52-year-old laborer said. He frequently rides the red D.C. Circulator bus between Columbia Heights and downtown — and he’ll often let…