2020

Jaevion Walker, 13, told the middle and high school students arrayed before him about his best friend. They had been typical teens, texting constantly. Then, his friend stopped answering when he started dating someone.

Approaching from the National Mall, the U.S. Botanic Garden looks like many federal buildings from the outside:

Kuwait is committing $10 million to the effort to build a memorial on the National Mall honoring the Gulf War of the 1990s.

Every Wednesday during the warmer months, volunteers test the water for bacteria at sites up and down the Anacostia. But what if you want to go paddleboarding on Saturday? The results from three days earlier could be completely irrelevant,…

After a long saga of closures and reopenings, the National Children’s Museum officially opened to the public on Monday in its new home.

The long-shuttered museum has reopened in a new, 33,000-square-foot space inside the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, just a short walk from the National Mall.

Happy Monday. Mayor Muriel Bowser defended her support of Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg in a WaPo interview posted over the weekend, saying no candidate is perfect.

It may be mammoth, but it’s actually a mastodon. With scooped tusks, a firm jaw, and powerful hind legs, the 14,000-year-old skeleton looks like it could walk right out of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Currently, 1 percent of D.C.’s electricity is supplied by solar. Some are already concerned that the city can’t make it all the way to 10 percent solar by 2042.

Mailers sent to at least 5,000 D.C. voters in recent weeks incorrectly stated that the city’s primary election is on the “3rd Tuesday in June,” when in fact it will take place on June 2.

Hundreds of people gathered to celebrate the founding 44 years ago of the only public university in the District. A student choir sang the black national anthem — “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” — and graduates paid homage to the school they…

Calvin Bright had spent more than two decades imprisoned for a double murder he maintains he did not commit when new evidence surfaced in the case. He learned authorities had withheld a tip that another man was the killer.

D.C. firefighters gathered Saturday to honor 150 year of history at a Northwest D.C. fire company that was the first all-African American fire company in the District of Columbia. It just so happens its anniversary falls within Black…

Clifford B. Janey, a former superintendent of Washington’s troubled public schools who began his leadership amid high hopes for a turnaround in 2004 and left in 2007 at the behest of a new mayor who said he wanted a change at the top, died…

Ask D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser if she encountered sexism in her rise to power, and her response is immediate: “Yes.”

The D.C. Board of Elections sent out voter registration cards with an incorrect date for the city’s primary elections in June.

The rebranding comes after recreational sports league DC Fray bought the magazine in 2019.