Over his ties to a digital sign company.

Improving health care access is one of Yilin Zhang’s biggest priorities for the ward and the city overall.

D.C. Councilmember Jack Evans is facing new allegations that he tried to leverage his office for personal gain.

$100,000 in stock, illicit signs, a suspended ethics inquiry … what you need to know about the scandal swirling around the city’s longest-serving councilmember.

Last June we reported that the Georgetown waterfront, which has never been much of a gem, was finally starting to take shape. Specifically, the Georgetown Waterfront Park, three decades in the making, had finally jumped through the last of its bureaucratic hoops and would soon see a parking lot coverted to green space. But for what was left of 2006, nothing much happened. The parking lot remained. Late last week we saw that the parking…

Like it or not, the details of the personal lives of the rich and famous intrigue us. We like to know what exists behind that public facade, what quirks make the celebrity, pol, athlete or rock-star just a little more human. And just as we once found out that mayoral candidate Linda Cropp owns an iPod and stocks it with audio books and that D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams enjoys bird watching, today the Examiner brings…

Mayor Williams has made it known: He is not happy with Fannie Mae, the home mortgage loan giant that pulled out of an agreement to develop a new office complex at the Waterside Mall site in Southwest D.C. In fact, Williams and other city officials are trying to figure out if the District has any way get some money back. And one member of the D.C. Council says Fannie Mae could potentially pay $200 million…