2019

A 132-year-old former elementary school building in D.C.'s Shaw neighborhood will soon be given new life.

Four years after Bei Bei stole Washingtonians’ hearts, the National Zoo’s beloved giant panda is readying to depart the Smithsonian institution for China next month.

D.C. is a transient city, they warn you.

Supporters say a bill being considered by the City Council in the nation’s capital would protect prostitutes. Critics say it would be a boon to sex traffickers.

Bei Bei, one of the National Zoo’s giant pandas, is set to go to China on Nov. 19, zoo officials said Friday.

The ghost of DC Council hearings past was present at Thursday night's Zoning Commission (ZC) meeting, as the body received testimony on how the zoning code should clarify the definition of short-term rentals and where they can operate in…

Is Airbnb legal in D.C.? Well, it’s complicated.

After a groundskeeper working for the District government was robbed and fatally shot while on his lunch break last week, his father drove more than 200 miles from North Carolina to identify and claim the body.

The sun shone on Catholic Charities, literally, on Oct. 17, as Archbishop Wilton Gregory blessed a solar array being installed on five acres of the agency’s land surrounding the Missionaries of Charity’s Gift of Peace home. The array of…

MPD’s Human Trafficking Unit doesn’t make many human trafficking arrests. But officers do expose their penises to sex workers and have them undress.

A D.C. firefighter was convicted of armed robbery Wednesday after he robbed a man of sneakers last December, prosecutors said Thursday.

Five hours into a Thursday hearing on a controversial bill that would decriminalize the sex trade in the nation’s capital, D.C. Council member Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) implored the crowd to settle down. He hammered his gavel. He called for…

D.C. leaders are considering legislation that would take criminal penalties off the table for those taking part in sex work in the District. But, in an emotional hearing at city hall Thursday, the majority of more than 180 witnesses…

A new project has turned unused emergency-call boxes into works of art

Peggy Robin may have expected this week to be like any other, but instead, she’s scrambling to deal with an unexpected crisis that could impact the thousands of people that have, in one way or another, come to rely on her on a daily basis.…