2019

A large potential development opportunity west of Rock Creek Park has hit the market.

The D.C. government plans to sharply increase low-cost housing in some of the District’s most affluent neighborhoods to spread it more equitably throughout the city and correct what officials called a history of “racially discriminatory”…

After her son’s friend was shot dead in a robbery attempt, Lisa McNair wanted to send the teen to high school in South Carolina, where his paternal grandmother lives.

Longtime Adams Morgan club Heaven and Hell is so named for its dual-bar concept: Climb the stairs for an angelic dance club, or descend below for a more infernal vibe. But now, the latter part of its moniker is just as apt in describing…

On “Trenchtown Rock,” Bob Marley sang, “One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.” Saturday’s first-ever Down in the Reeds festival takes the message behind those lyrics one step further, aiming to promote music’s profound…

Having apparently solved all the urgent problems besetting D.C. – crime, poverty, traffic, homelessness, public schools that don’t educate, etc. – the D.C. Council - whose city is actually named for Columbus! got down to the important…

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day. It is the first time Columbus Day has been renamed in DC, after the DC Council passed emergency legislation last Tuesday. The change took effect for 2019 when Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the bill on Friday.

On Monday in the nation's capital, there is no Columbus Day. The D.C. Council voted to replace it with Indigenous Peoples' Day in a temporary move that it hopes to make permanent. Several other places across the United States have also…

You want it to come off the page or come off the surface as having a life," Akili Ron Anderson says. "That’s what I tried to do."

Transformer is hosting its 16th annual silent auction and benefit on October 26.

Once a week, in the basement auditorium of the MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C., a group of men gather to discuss the various struggles and triumphs of life in a wheelchair.

Drivers should expect parking restrictions and some street closures west of the White House.

Monday is Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the District after the city council approved emergency legislation last week to rename Columbus Day.

The District will increase education funding by at least $20 million for the current academic year after the traditional public school system struggled to balance its budget for the previous fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30.

WHISTLEBLOWERS, AS the country has become all too keenly aware, help serve the public interest when they stick their necks out to report wrongdoing in government. That, though, assumes that their complaints are actually investigated and…

It seems an unlikely subject for a movie: the battle over school vouchers in the nation’s capital.

As the number of victims climbed during a week of murders that left eight people dead in the District, the city’s police chief expressed frustration that more isn’t being done to deal with repeat gun offenders.