2020

Events D.C., the District's conventions and sports authority, has lined up the first major sponsor dedicated to the Entertainment and Sports Arena at St. Elizabeths in Congress Heights.

In just a few short years, D.C. could be a city divided — by little more than a three-digit number. The supply of phone numbers with the city’s (202) area code is shrinking, raising the possibility that in a few years regulators will have…

President Donald Trump’s 2021 budget released Monday would give more funding to the District to provide security at rallies and other events, although the amount included was still less than the city asked for.

D.C. statehood advocates plan to storm Congress on Tuesday to witness one of the final hurdles before a first-in-a-generation floor vote on a measure that would turn the nation’s capital into the 51st state.

An investigation by federal prosecutors into the District’s crime lab raised questions about “integrity and competence” and revealed lapses in ballistics examinations, including some that lacked supporting documentation and an instance in…

Neighbors of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and D.C. business owners attended a community meeting Monday night to share their concerns about the chaos that broke out during last year’s holiday ZooLights festival.

Black workers in the nation’s capital earn significantly less than their white counterparts with unemployment rates that eclipse prerecession numbers, despite a strong national labor market and flourishing District economy, according to a…

For the first time since 1993, a House committee will mark up a proposal to make D.C. the 51st U.S. state.

Historians are hopeful that one of the four human skeletons recently found in the basement a Georgetown home could belong to one of the most famous slaves in the history of Washington, D.C.

In the early 1960s, as a child, I would accompany my parents on errands in downtown Washington, D.C. A lasting part of these memories is the sight and sound of an older woman singing and playing slide guitar on Seventh Street NW. Her name…

In the nearly six years since Palena, an early contributor to DC's then-burgeoning dining scene, closed on Connecticut Avenue, the Cleveland Park space has remained vacant. Now, it looks like a bank is slated for the site.

President Trump upped funding for the District to provide security at huge rallies and other events in the budget proposal released Monday, but still fell short of the amount the city says is needed.

As D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser stepped off a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign bus Sunday night and darted through the dark into an Arlington, Va., field office, she passed a crowd of angry protesters jeering at her on the sidewalk.

Donroy Ferdinand and his friend were leaving the Shaw-Howard U Metro station Thursday night when they saw a 13-year old boy in handcuffs, surrounded by three Metro Transit Police officers.

As DC continues its efforts to drum up support for Mayor Bowser's housing production goals, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development has released a graph* showing how — or whether — approval of housing units has…

Happy Monday. Can campaigning for Michael Bloomberg give Muriel Bowser a path to becoming a national figure? Will it put a spotlight on DC's mayor not seen since the days of Adrian Fenty?

WMATA has picked the team to redevelop its longtime headquarters building in Chinatown as the transit agency plans its move to L'Enfant Plaza.

Human remains were found in a Q Street basement in Georgetown on Feb. 4.The discovery may have surprised a few. But many Georgetowners, especially those who live on the 3300 block of Q, know that this place still has history to reveal.