Jeff Clabaugh

Starbucks workers at the Old Keene Mill location in Springfield, Virginia, and the Shipley's Grant location in Ellicott City, Maryland, have voted unanimously to join Starbucks Workers United, among almost a dozen other Starbucks locations in the D.C. metro that have now unionized or filed to.

Firehook Bakery, whose first artisanal bakery opened in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1992, has been acquired by Greenwich, Connecticut-based private investment firm Forward Consumer Partners for an undisclosed sum.

Listen now to WTOP News Pennsylvania Avenue is no longer the most expensive office address in D.C. It has been replaced by Maine Avenue, located at The Wharf on the Southwest Waterfront.

One D.C.-based group has a database of thousands of options to keep children engaged and learning during the summer.

Duke's Grocery, the self-proclaimed East London-inspired gastropub, will open its newest restaurant at Potomac Village this fall.

More than half of surveyed D.C. restaurant owners said economic conditions for their industry are poor and expect conditions to stay the same or get worse.

Virginia-based beer company Crooked Run Fermentation will host the second annual Mr. Leesburg Pageant on June 1 at Leesburg's Market Station.

The NoMa Farmers Market, one of the newest in the D.C. area, will relocate to Third Street, Northeast, between M and N Streets — and it's expanding.

Chicago-based Foxtrot Market, which grew from one outpost to more than a half-dozen locations in the D.C. area in less than three years, has abruptly closed all of its D.C.-area stores.

Unemployment rates in Maryland and Virginia both rose modestly in March, and when compared to states, the District had the second-highest unemployment rate last month.