Come Oct. 1 the D.C . Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs will be broken up into two separate agencies, which advocates hope will lead to more aggressive enforcement of the housing code and consumer protection laws.

The Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington is accusing D.C.’s food trucks of “visually misleading” customers about the effects that the city’s proposed regulations would have on mobile vending.

A coalition of food truck industry groups from the United States is taking up spatulas with their D.C. counterparts over the District government’s proposed regulations.

Among the ideas proposed by the food truck lobby to D.C. regulators is allowing mobile food vendors to buy parking permits that would free them from the burden of having to constantly feed the meter.

Uber has a new trick planned for Friday, but this one seems wholly unobjectionable. It’s going to deliver ice cream. Here’s a quick lesson for Uber on how to navigate the District’s food truck regulations.

The Department of Regulatory and Consumer Affairs revised its proposed rules governing secondhand stores to include furniture and jewelry dealers.

The District’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs released today its proposed changes to regulations governing secondhand shops and announced it will not take any enforcement measures against the affected businesses during the public comment period.