2020

D.C. has been making progress cleaning up the Anacostia and Potomac rivers, to the point where those long-polluted waterways could soon be safe to swim in. But recently, management at D.C.’s water and sewer authority has been considering…

Owner Said He's Retiring; Customers Say It's Tantamount to Gentrification

What country music is to Nashville and Jazz music is to New Orleans, go-go music is to DC. And on Wednesday, the living legends of go-go music came out to Culture House DC to witness history.

Former Metro Transit Police officers testified before the D.C. Council that they were pressured to meet a certain amount of tickets and arrests, calling it a quota system.

Alice Carter, a Street Sense Media vendor and artist who called the District home for 13 years, died on Dec. 18, 2019 at the age of 35.

An unsanctioned competition between some Metro Transit Police officers to make arrests has D.C. lawmakers questioning the transit agency’s policing practices.

D.C. Council members on Wednesday questioned Metro Transit Police Chief Ronald Pavlik Jr. about his department’s use-of-force policies after officers last week handcuffed a 13-year-old at a station and the agency confirmed that some…

In Philadelphia and Chicago, school librarians looked with dread as their positions were slashed. Now, librarians in the District are fighting to make sure the same fate does not befall them.

Two D.C. Council members are introducing a resolution supporting the creation of a civilian oversight body for Metro Transit Police.

D.C. Council members want Metro to create a civilian review board to investigate claims of abuse, selective enforcement and excessive force by its transit police officers.

The music stopped as the mayor made her way across the stage, past bongo drums and keyboards, timbales and amps.

A development that would add nearly 400 units to Northeast D.C.'s Brookland neighborhood appears to be moving forward.

Andrew Huber parks himself at Kitty O’Shea’s pub most Monday nights. He usually has a meal and some drinks. But while most patrons end the evening with a tab, Huber walks out with $40 in his pocket.

Union employees of D.C.-area Safeway grocery stores could strike as soon as next month as contract negotiations with Safeway parent company Albertsons have reached an impasse, according to United Food and Commercials Workers Local 400.

Thousands of Safeway workers are ready to strike if they don’t get what they consider a fair contract by March 5. If a deal isn’t reached, Safeway stores across the D.C. area could be forced to close.

After more than three months of renovations to its colossal Great Hall, the National Building Museum in Penn Quarter will reopen on March 13, museum officials said Wednesday.