August 2020

John Thompson, the Washington native who elevated Georgetown University basketball to national prominence, earned Hall of Fame honors and carved a place in history as the first African American coach to lead his team to the NCAA…

For a second consecutive night, police employed chemical irritants and other tactics to disperse crowds of protesters near Black Lives Matter Plaza early Monday morning.

Some of the largest hotels in D.C. that closed at the beginning of the pandemic are reopening their doors: The Conrad Hotel, Hay-Adams and Mandarin Oriental all reopened in late August. But the future is unclear for others.

Hall of Fame basketball coach John Thompson Jr. has died at the age of 78.

It’s an unseasonably cool day in early May, and a little girl is celebrating her fourth birthday at her mother’s grave.

Police moved in on dozens of protesters in the District early Monday, deploying a chemical irritant in the crowd and tackling some demonstrators as officers moved quickly to clear Black Lives Matter Plaza.

The D.C. Superior Court has granted a temporary restraining order preventing Washington Sports Club from collecting fees on September 1 from customers that canceled their membership between March 17 and June 22.

Police said five officers were injured and the union said at least one officer was hospitalized after the latest confrontations in the nation’s capital.

Washington Post reporters answer questions to help parents and guardians navigate the pandemic school year.

Friday’s March on Washington brought massive crowds to downtown D.C. and ended without any significant confrontations between police and protesters. But as demonstrations bled into the weekend, the response from authorities took a…

Courts ruled in favor of the District on Friday in its case against Washington Sports Club for charging membership fees during its coronavirus closures in the spring.

Barely a week after Metro restored nearly normal service for both bus and rail, transit officials say they could be forced to consider severe cuts unless the system receives more federal money.

D.C. is the first U.S. city to test a system that sends real-time information about curbside parking availability to delivery drivers — a move its developer hopes will make food deliveries more efficient and reduce driver stress.

Mel Krupin, who presided over the dining room of Duke Zeibert’s, one of Washington’s leading power restaurants of the 1970s, like a drill sergeant and later battled his former boss in the “Matzoh Ball War” after opening a competing…

Marchers protesting for racial justice confronted police and toppled newspaper boxes and set some of them on fire Saturday night in the Adams Morgan section of Northwest Washington, before converging near the White House and prompting a…

Now that the March on Washington has come and gone, youth leaders are calling on their generation to continue the movement for real change. One of those leaders — Ty Hobson-Powell — had the chance to share his message at the march Friday. …

The coronavirus pandemic has inspired a number of rent strikes in the D.C. region, including in one of the city’s largest and most notable buildings.

If you ask Joy Jones what excites her about jumping rope, she'll tell you “double dutch incites joy, when people start jumping.”

Every city is a palimpsest, the new put down over the old, just as the old was put down over the even older.

Before the world became familiar with actor Chadwick Boseman and his portrayals of Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, James Brown or as the Black Panther in the movies, he was a Howard University Bison.