2019

The founders of DMV Black Restaurant Week are introducing a new event series with the Metropolitan Police Department to nurture mutual respect and improve day-to-day interactions between restaurants and bars and the police. The move comes…

Whispers of frustrations with Councilmember Brandon Todd float among the elected neighborhood commissioners, residents, and political onlookers in Ward 4. They criticize Todd for his close ties to Mayor Muriel Bowser and his positions on…

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - Environmental inspectors began enforcing the District’s new plastic straw ban Tuesday, and so far, there’s a lot of room for improvement.

D.C. public and charter schools are required to perform more robust background checks before hiring new teachers under a new law passed by the D.C. Council.

Good Thursday morning. Hear Green Teamers talk about themselves, and you too might feel warm and fuzzy inside. In a City Paper story about Brandon Todd’s potentially fading popularity in Ward 4, former Council member Bill Lightfoot talks up…

“I have to meet this guy and have sex with him. If I don’t, then he and his friends are going to rape my little sister,” a student at Frank Ballou High School in Ward 8’s Congress Heights told her teacher. The teacher was trying to persuade…

Providence Health System has received conditional regulatory approval for its closure plan, pushing off the District's immediate efforts to block the Northeast D.C. hospital from shutting down.

In late 2017, UrbanTurf reported on likely plans by Howard University to seek to convert part of the Howard Center into residences. Now, those plans are in motion.

On the corner of 12th and Monroe streets NE a Nativity scene rests near the base of a stone church, as a mother and her three children walk past a statue of the Virgin Mary draped in blue Christmas lights.

The 143-year-old little synagogue that could was rolled down the block, where it will become a museum.

Bars, event venues and other retailers in D.C. could soon offer sports betting inside their walls under a new law the D.C. Council passed in December, and everyone from independent entrepreneurs to popular D.C. bar owners to MGM Resorts is …

Showplace Icon is out at The Yards.

Howard University is continuing its strategy of redeveloping its properties with a new project on Georgia Avenue.

A Wednesday in the middle of January during a government shutdown is probably a better time than most to close Third Street NW and move an entire building.

Six years after the 1961 debut of “It’s Academic,” Washington’s high school quiz show, Giant Food signed on as its chief sponsor. Israel “Izzy” Cohen, owner of the supermarket chain, thought it was important to offer support.

The people who have been calling the Washington region’s largest food bank this month sound different from before. More timid. More unsure. Less familiar with how the food bank system works.

Three rows of second-graders stand facing the front of the classroom. A speaker emits sounds. First, a door creaking. Then, footsteps thudding and a wolf howling, all followed by the unmistakable opening riff of Michael Jackson’s…