2019

At the request of gay Dupont Circle Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Randy Downs, city officials have approved the installation of 20 rainbow and transgender flag banners to be hung from light poles along 17th Street, N.W. near Dupont…

DC Superior Court got a four-legged addition to its ranks on Wednesday, when two-year-old black Labrador Pepper started work in Magistrate Judge Mary Grace Rook’s courtroom.

As they prepare for a student-led march scheduled for Thursday afternoon, friends, family and members of the Somerset Prep DC Public Charter School community remember slain teenager Maurice Scott as an honor roll student and rising high…

In the weeks leading up to what would be an emotionally charged D.C. Council hearing, droves of community members took to group email lists, social media, local radio programs and the streets in support of a bill that would alleviate…

An ad hoc group of African-American entrepreneurs have organized to request the D.C. government produce a study on how many Black businesses and firms are getting city government contracts.

June 5, 2019 Contact: Jack Miller Norton Praises House Action on DREAMers, Pathway to Citizenship WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that House passage yesterday of the American Dream and Promise…

The 14th Street restaurant is done with declining sales and feuding with upstairs residents

The board of Monument Academy Public Charter School voted Tuesday to close the school at the end of the academic year — a stunning turn for a weekday boarding campus that has attracted big named-donors and received national attention for…

But Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration has touted the shrinking number of homeless families.

When it’s working, the multi-tiered cascading fountain at Meridian Hill Park is the longest of its kind in North America. But in recent years, it hasn’t been working all that frequently.

Starting next month, D.C. will begin collecting taxes from businesses to fund its new paid leave program, which is scheduled to go into effect next year. But some businesses say there’s been confusion about how the tax is being assessed.

Four days before he climbed aboard the airplane that would drop him over Nazi-occupied France, Pvt. Delmer D. Linaburg sent a letter to his mother back home in Winchester, Va.

Last summer, plans for an expanded Union Market were a bit in flux after a development partner dropped out. Now, as the city gears up for tennis atop the market building, EDENS is back with a new development partner and a new plan.

John Fanning, an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner chairman in Logan Circle, thinks it’s time for Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans to go. And, despite two challengers already throwing their hats in the ring to unseat the longest-serving,…

London and San Francisco have legislation that protects live music venues from consequential noise complaints. Could D.C. be next?

The fields are multipurpose and part of the 190-acre site’s overall redevelopment

Spanish restaurant Xiquet will open at the current Slate Wine Bar space at 2404 Wisconsin Ave., in D.C.’s Glover Park neighborhood, in August and will feature a rotating selection of paellas from Slate chef and partner Danny Lledo.

Residents and businesses around town are gearing up for Capital Pride 2019, with pride decorations already brightening up commercial corridors like 17th Street NW in Dupont Circle, the District’s historic gayborhood. This Saturday, Dupont…

Washington has one of the richest deposits of jazz music and musicians in the United States — a fact to which, in recent years, jazz connoisseurs from around the world have finally caught on. Or so suggest the steadily rising attendance…