2019

Supporting statehood for the District is a no-brainer for Democrats, including those running for president. Indeed, all of them support it, and those now serving in Congress have all co-sponsored bills to make the District a state.

Local activist Adam Eidinger has nearly one-third of the signatures needed to trigger a recall vote on council member Jack Evans, and he is confident he can get the rest by the November deadline.

The tweets are brutal in their cluelessness: On Tuesday, WTOP credited an Alexandria man crucial to the Apollo 11 launch as a “brilliant German-American rocket engineer.” Then, a correction: “We have updated this story to explicitly state…

His bed was snugly made, and four pair of sneakers formed a neat line beneath his extra-long twin bed. An iron that Dajon Duvall borrowed from his dorm’s residential adviser sat on a wooden desk that was crammed on his side of the room.

Two D.C. firefighters were arrested and charged with assaulting police officers outside an &pizza on Connecticut Avenue NW over the weekend, court documents show.

Three-quarters of D.C.’s residential tax lots allow only single-family homes by right

There’s a new statue outside the Spanish Embassy in Washington and though it honors someone who died more than 230 years ago, it seems oddly relevant today.

It’s been especially hot and humid this week, and today the National Weather Service issued a heat advisory from 11 a.m. through 8 p.m. for the District and a number of surrounding counties. In response, the city is keeping some of its…

Their opening may not have drawn as much attention as their co-tenant, a little tech company from California called Apple, but the DC Historical Society is poised to support Washington’s history buffs and culture enthusiasts like never…

Wesley Pruden would have wanted to spend his final hours at his keyboard, deftly deflating the pompous, entitled and arrogant of the political establishment, and he came awfully close.

The District’s early plans for a new Banneker Academic High School will have their first review by the federal Commission on Fine Arts on Thursday.

Metro is hoping that the underused garages at some of its stations can instead be a source of revenue and promote sustainability. The agency is looking for a company to add solar panels to some of its parking lots and garage roofs.

Kylie, a 6-year-old German shepherd, was sniffing while searching for possible bones a passerby had reported seeing off a Northern Virginia highway.

A medevac helicopter stopped traffic Tuesday afternoon on the George Washington Parkway to rescue an injured D.C. Fire and EMS canine, and now, a well-respected cadaver dog is heading home from the hospital.

Sterling Tucker, a Washington-based civil rights organizer and politician who in 1974 became chairman of the first popularly elected D.C. Council in more than a century, died July 14 at his home in the District. He was 95.

An early and influential leader in the fight for civil rights and D.C. Home Rule

If you walk along Adams Mill Road NW, just a few blocks north of the main drag in Adams Morgan, you’ll come across an odd sight. At the intersection of Adams Mill and Clydesdale Place there’s a mysterious structure with stone walls, a…