By examining 1,000 businesses and $8 billion of contracts, researchers found inequalities in the results of the city’s contracting process.

A spate of burglaries and window smashing at local businesses has the community on edge. Neighbors want accountability for that and other property crimes, but don’t agree on what kind.

Employment took a major hit during COVID-19. But new data suggest that startups are forming at a fairly fast rate, laying the groundwork for a recovery.

Earlier this week, the city imposed a 14-day self-quarantine requirement for people traveling to Washington from states deemed as “high-risk” by health department officials.

Poke Papa (806 H St. NW) is one of a new batch of restaurants introducing Washington to the Hawaiian dish.

When local food vendors bring a little bit of character to an otherwise bland city park, you’d think the community would rejoice, right? Wrong.

In case you didn’t believe us regarding that whole “95 percent of the city’s legal fireworks vendors are located in Wards 4, 5, 7 and 8” thing, here’s the visual proof.

The Fourth of July is right around the corner. And you know what that means. That’s right — a whole evening of people setting off fireworks at all hours, leading some to believe that their apartments are being overtaken by guerrilla forces. (Oh, and look at that — it falls on a Monday this year! How nice.)

Sure, it might have been rodent-infested, but the old Safeway on Rhode Island Avenue NE was still the grocery of choice for many Brookland residents before it closed in March 2010. And even though a Yes! Organic Market on 12th Street NE is a fine option for some, the residential neighborhood could certainly support a supermarket. How about Harris Teeter?

The District’s bag tax has often been hailed as a massive success — so much so that our neighbors in Montgomery County citing it when installing their own version of a similar five-cent fee on disposable bags. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t scofflaws out there.