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Natasha Tynes, an award-winning Jordanian American author who lost a book deal following claims of online racism, is suing her publishing house for $13 million. The lawsuit, filed in California on Friday, alleges that Rare Bird Books…

In late 2017, WAMU broke the story that dozens of students at Ballou High School had been allowed to graduate despite high rates of unexcused absences, violating the city’s graduation requirements.

New evidence recently emerged in the cases of Sandra Bland and Oscar Grant, two black victims of police violence. The police departments in Texas and Oakland, Calif., where these incidents happened, kept the video footage away from the…

Plans for the retail-centric redevelopment of one of Georgetown’s oldest parking lots are changing, with the project now being floated as a largely residential building.

Built in 1911, the Takoma Park branch was the very first neighborhood library in the D.C. Public Library System (it took an act of Congress and funding from Andrew Carnegie). It was also the first building to be renovated under the…

If your heart swelled when you saw the guys from Queer Eye taking photos by the cherry blossoms, take a look at our beloved, banana-loving Big Bird yukkin’ it up with all the other tourists down by the national memorials.

OF THE 12 traffic deaths that have occurred in the District this year, three happened in just one weekend. The deaths of a bicyclist, a pedestrian and a motorist over Easter weekend in April prompted a flurry of proposals from D.C. Council…

The Hirshhorn Museum’s Sculpture Garden is now one step closer to a full overhaul, as planners just signed off on the outlines of a proposed redesign.

A new exhibit, “Deep Time,” follows a $110 million renovation that took five years

District of Columbia regulations require the public schools to provide an equal educational opportunity for all of the city’s students.

Years after approval and in the midst of ongoing legal limbo, the developer behind a mixed-use project at Congress Heights Metro station is seeking to keep the development alive.

The partnership seeks to aid nonprofit housing developers and service providers

For much of the District’s history, the term “East of the River” was simply a geographical description without particular significance.

The Department of General Services says further soil testing is the hold up. Meanwhile, D.C. just established an urban agriculture office under a different agency.

They’ve been zipping around the District for more than a year, becoming a source of both convenience and consternation. But their ubiquity raises the question — how many people are using electric scooters, and who are they?

Most people in the Washington region drive their own car to get around on a daily basis, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll, indicating that the region’s love affair with the automobile isn’t waning despite worsening traffic…

After complaints from residents in Virginia, Maryland and D.C., the Government Accountability Office will conduct a study of helicopter noise in and around the nation’s capital.

Virginia on Thursday formally called on the Metro board to make public the findings of its ethics investigation into board chairman Jack Evans, saying the disclosure was necessary for “accountability and transparency.”

Here’s an alert for D.C. taxpayers and other stakeholders — and that includes you. D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced Wednesday morning that the city is suing six Maryland parents for fraudulently claiming D.C. residency so they…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Thursday a city partnership with the private sector to help end homelessness in the District and create 36,000 affordable housing units by 2025.