Local and federal officials are butting heads over the possibility of changing building-height limits in Washington, D.C.

Should you rent a home in the D.C. area or buy? A report says its significantly cheaper to buy, but that may be changing with mortgage rates on the rise.

Mayor Vincent Gray has ordered the cancellation of dozens of sales of homes for unpaid tax bills a week after a report detailed how some homeowners were losing properties over relatively small overdue bills.

A Washington Post investigation found that hundreds of D.C. homeowners lost their homes to foreclosure over unpaid tax liens.

For several decades now, the D.C. government has sold the debts of homeowners behind on tax bills to private investors, who can then charge sky-high interest rates and fees and pursue forecloses on the properties.

One Montgomery County town claims it was the U.S. capital for nearly 15 hours during the War of 1812.

According to the real estate website Zillow.com, the White House would list for $319 million, if it were on the market.

Investors from Abu Dhabi to Norway, Qatar to Korea are buying office buildings and development projects in D.C. We explore what booming foreign investment means for the city.

Langston Terrace, D.C.'s first public housing project designed and built by African Americans, recently turned 75 years old.

We visit two of Maryland's "kinship communities," which were settled by former slaves after the Civil War.