Lauren Bell is a communications manager at an education nonprofit and a policy nerd who has called DC home for six years. Now a resident of U Street, she spends her weekends exploring the city, ...

Townhomes could support broader Reston redevelopment. Rockville office campus could become housing. Brookland residential ...

DC Safe and Beautiful” sounds lovely in a press release, but it’s a hollow promise when “beautiful” requires a steel ...

Rachel Shaffer works as an environmental health scientist, but all opinions expressed here are entirely her own. She lives in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC, where she alternates between dodging cars ...

A recent petition calls on DDOT to develop safe Mount Pleasant-Metro-Columbia Heights bike connections. In addition to a future connected bike network, the authors also seek responsiveness to emerging ...

Red Line stations reopen after construction. Executive director to depart National Capital Planning Commission. Goats to eat invasive plants at Alexandria park.

Check out the DC Family Bike Fest. Talk public restrooms at our monthly happy hour. Learn more about potential changes to Arlington’s system of local government. Don’t forget to buy your ticket to the ...

A dense, truly urban city, relatively small ring of low-density development, and well-preserved countryside all work in concert. Limiting density doesn’t limit development; it just spreads it out.

Storm damage affects Metro service. Townhouses approved near Innovation Center Metro. Temporary Wisconsin Avenue bus lanes to ...

That was some storm last night! Hurricane winds, down trees, leaky rowhouse bathroom ceiling vents. It was really coming down ...

More than a century after Congress set Hains Point aside for the “recreation and pleasure of the people,” plans for a major golf course overhaul raise an old question: Who gets to decide how it’s used ...

In which contributor Pete Rodrigue makes some choices to learn how rooftop solar panels are made. Don’t try this at home.