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Longtime D.C. Council member Jack Evans announced Tuesday that he will resign Jan. 17, ending a 29-year political career that helped revive a foundering city but in the end was deeply tainted by ethics violations.

Jack Evans, the D.C. Council’s longest-serving member, resigned from office on Tuesday, preempting a likely vote by his colleagues later this month to expel him.

Facing probable expulsion by his colleagues and an ongoing federal investigation, Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans announced his resignation Tuesday afternoon from the D.C. Council.

Councilman Jack Evans, D-Ward 2, has resigned, ending his tenure as the District’s longest-serving lawmaker amidst a series of ethics scandals and condemnations from his colleagues.

The District’s top ethics investigator has stepped down amid criticism of the agency’s failure to promptly investigate complaints.

Jack Evans to resign: The question all morning had been whether Jack Evans would testify at his expulsion hearing — but minutes before the scheduled start, the embattled legislator instead announced that he will resign on Jan. 17.

Signs point to yes.

Congress’s reauthorization of a program that provides tuition assistance for low-income District students to attend private and charter schools has been hailed by the Archdiocese of Washington’s superintendent of schools as “incredible…

Rochelle Ford takes over as acting director while the board searches for a permanent replacement.

Two of the immersive “Infinity Mirror Room” installations by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, which drew hundreds of thousands of people to the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 2017, will go back on exhibit there in…

Between the imminent delivery of two projects, and following last year's delivery of 1111H and The Baldwin, the pipeline for the one-time crane-covered H Street Corridor has shrunk considerably.

When David Henson’s son wanted to join the Boy Scouts, it made him incredibly uneasy. Wanting to fulfill his son’s wishes, Henson said yes, but every meeting, every camp-out and every troop activity “would tear me up,” he said.

D.C. Council member Jack Evans will have a chance Tuesday to publicly argue that he deserves to stay in office, after his colleagues decided to remove him in light of repeated ethics violations.

The D.C. Council is poised to broaden bans on expanded polystyrene foam, commonly known as Styrofoam.

A man who stayed at a D.C. homeless shelter has been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease, prompting the city to test the shelter’s water supply for potential contaminants that could have caused the illness.

A relatively new hotel brand with a growing presence in New York and Miami is lobbying to set up shop next to one of the District's oldest surviving apartment buildings.

The National Building Museum, it seems, is growing up. Where the museum once played around in a ball pit or rolled down a giant hill, this summer it will study Shakespeare and put on a play.

Just six days into the new decade, D.C. has already recorded four homicides, all of which occurred over the past weekend, according to D.C. police.

The mirrors are officially coming: The Hirshhorn Museum announced Monday that it is launching a mini exhibit of the work of artist Yayoi Kusama. One With Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection is set to open in early April.

A DC agency is considering changes to the city's floodplain regulations which would restrict construction in areas expected to be underwater in 2100.