2019

Liane Carrascoso was headed to pick up her 5-year-old son at Harriet Tubman Elementary School in Columbia Heights on Friday when she saw police officers urgently closing down nearby streets.

Current Arts Editor Matt Cohen is heading to Mother Jones.

Two years ago, D.C. opened an inclusive startup incubator and co-working space, in partnership with Howard University and Clearly Innovative’s Luma Lab, with the goal of supporting diverse entrepreneurial activity and giving the community…

The D.C. Board of Elections ruled Monday that an effort to recall embattled D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) from office can proceed. That leaves organizers free to start collecting the 5,000 signatures from Ward 2 voters required…

The extension of Yellow Line service to Greenbelt is starting more than a month earlier than expected.

The German grocery chain Lidl has announced it will open a supermarket in the long-awaited Skyland Town Center development. It will be only the third full-service grocery store in Ward 7.

The Skyland Town Center development team has reached a deal for a grocery store anchor, the first new supermarket to open East of the River in over a decade.

The Unsuck D.C. Metro blog and social media account began a decade ago as one of the few ways that residents could learn about delays and other issues on the WMATA rail system.

Privacy experts call them “Little Brothers.”

Jordan Grossman is looking to unseat Ward 2's entrenched incumbent

The leafy neighborhood surrounding Holy Comforter Saint-Cyprian Roman Catholic Church has transformed in recent years. Longtime parishioners have watched as the African American families who found a spiritual home at this church for more…

Population growth in the District of Columbia is slowing and migration patterns are changing.

The $480-million project, the District’s largest infrastructure project, will deliver a modern crossing over the Anacostia River in 2021.

New York-based coffee chain Bluestone Lane Cafe likes the D.C. market. Just a year and a half after opening its first D.C. location in the West End, it is set to open its fifth D.C. location — on 14th Street NW — this summer.

The White House grounds are getting an upgrade, with two new buildings designed to meet the demands of a "growing presidency" — and to, let's face it, look and function better than they do now.

The ghost bike was installed last month to honor Dave Salovesh, one of the city’s most active cycling advocates, after he was killed at the intersection of 12th Street and Florida Avenue NE. It wasn’t even in place for a month before it…

Brick and mortar retail can thrive. Retailers are just rethinking some of the details. Size is one of them.

As Democrats look for ways to overhaul the political system, statehood advocates in the nation's capital see opportunity.

Happy Monday. A new pro-statehood coalition, “51 for 51,” will kick off tomorrow to press statehood as an issue during the Democratic presidential primary.