The new contractor rating system from DCRA assesses whether their plans have been accurate and if their work passed inspections.

Officials are asking organizers to include anti-COVID-19 measures in their event plans, such as wearing masks and practicing social distancing.

The Public Space Permit Viewer app — available for Android, iPhone and Windows 8 users — can pull up recent construction and occupancy permits in the city.

Cyclists anticipating that warm spring day when they can enjoy 24 miles of car-free roads through Arlington and D.C. will have to look elsewhere this year, because the annual Bike DC organized ride has been called off.

A family in the quiet, wooded Wesley Heights neighborhood in Northwest D.C. is upsetting its neighbors with the construction of a backyard ice rink, but there’s very little they can do to block it.

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.

Shaw’s Back Alley Waffles made national news this week when it accused online coupon giant Groupon of driving it out of business. But the restaurant’s problems ran deeper than that—it lacked the necessary permits to serve food.

This week Wal-Mart received building permits for two of the six stores it has planned in D.C., reports the Washington Business Journal.

It’s been a banner week for D.C. autonomy—one Republican wants to ban all abortions in D.C. after 20 weeks, and now another wants to exempt all military personnel from the city’s gun laws.

Some residents of Georgetown are feeling smothered. Not by air pollution or construction or stress, but by the cyclists and runners who sometimes go through their neighborhood during races.