2020

While D.C. was busy breaking the record for most 90-degree days in a month (thanks for nothing, July), some locals decided to dip their toes — or entire bodies — into Rock Creek, a shallow and mostly shaded waterway that runs through…

The twin crises of pandemic and recession are straining the region’s philanthropies and could force as many as a third of nonprofits to close or merge before the economy recovers, according to top executives in the sector.

Unable to open anytime soon, local independent concert venues are looking to Congress for help.

Flash flood watch issued; tropical-storm-force wind gusts may occur in eastern areas.

The odds are increasing that the D.C. region will see significant flooding due to Tropical Storm Isaias late Monday into Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.

On Friday, D.C.’s first official sportsbook opened at Capital One Arena. It’s the first of its kind in a professional sports arena or stadium.

With American sports stirring back to life, sports gambling in the nation’s capital entered a new phase Friday with the opening of the District’s first sportsbook.

The pastor of a Catholic church on Capitol Hill who urged people not to “cower in fear” of the novel coronavirus has contracted covid-19, the disease the virus causes, prompting D.C. health officials to tell about 250 staff and…

National Farmers Market Week begins Sunday and D.C. has been awarded the Number 1 spot on the 2020 American Fitness Index rankings list of the nation’s top 100 cities with access to farmer’s markets.

A beloved school bus driver who enjoyed making friends with children from different cultures. A young woman following her mother into a career in the culinary arts. A man killed nine days after his father died of cancer.

Months after being forced to close due to the pandemic, independently owned music venues in DC continue to call on Congress to pass relief measures.

D.C.-area lawmakers are pushing a measure that would create a centralized system to track complaints about helicopter noise in the region similar to ones used to collect information about airplane noise.

More than two months after the Black Lives Matter protests kicked off in D.C., the demonstrations continue. While the camera crews and extremely large crowds may be mostly gone, protestors say they still want their demands heard.

He had five days to move out of the house in Brightwood Park, and now Daniel Vought stood looking at the plastic crates stacked in the living room holding his things. T-shirts. Power cords. Pokémon cards and stuffed animals. His beloved…

Curtis Justin Hillyer drew his last breath at 3 p.m. on Aug. 5, 1906, on a southbound train returning to Washington from Nova Scotia. The 78-year-old lawyer had traveled to the Canadian province for his health, but had told his son he…

A day after Carmen Garner drove across the Washington region to visit five boys at their homes, he is still thinking of the walk to one child’s front door.

Two protesters outside a Planned Parenthood facility were arrested and charged with defacing public or private property early Saturday, according to D.C. police and video footage.

The region’s top transportation board has endorsed a proposal for a network of trails stretching across the greater Washington region, from Frederick, Md., to Prince William County, Va., that would expand the amount of off-road bicycle and…