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The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is being drained to repair a broken water line, according to the National Park Service.

Is it time to rebrand “East of the River”?

D.C.’s Florida Avenue Market is alive, an ecosystem unto itself. Boxes of produce exit trucks and enter warehouses, where they await chefs with discerning eyes. An electric saw rends chickens in two. People shop for Mother’s Day gifts,…

The stories are stitched or scribbled onto squares of red fabric, sometimes a single word, sometimes many, sometimes just a symbol: “I was raped by two or three men while I studied abroad.” “It wasn’t my fault.” “I’m still afraid to be…

There’s no mistaking when you’ve entered Navy Yard — Nationals Park is by far the D.C. neighborhood’s most distinguishable landmark. But long before there was a venue to root for the home team, the area was the city’s busiest hub for queer…

The House Committee on Oversight and Reform will hold a hearing on D.C. statehood on July 24, marking the first time in about a quarter century that the issue will be formally reviewed by a House committee, officials will announce…

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has a lot of details to work out with regard to the Reach, it’s three-pavilion expansion, but one thing is for sure: It will be a big, long party when it opens in September.

The latest Washington Teachers’ Union election is reviving a bitter rivalry as president Elizabeth Davis faces a challenge from Nathan Saunders — the man she ousted from the role in 2013 to win one of the District’s most powerful labor…

The historic appointment of Lonnie G. Bunch III as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution creates a leadership vacuum at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, where he has been founding director since 2005.

Mid-way through the opening number of the Cappies, I found myself wishing I had followed one event organizer’s advice and worn earplugs.

There’s a lobbying campaign underway to grant hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax relief—not for a tech giant, but for a small bookstore and cafe near Howard University.

A day after 15-year-old Maurice Scott was shot and killed a few blocks from his Washington D.C. charter school, Demont Pinder got to work.

The District government has filed more than 1,100 administrative charges resulting in nearly $500,000 in settlements after a “ban the box” law made it illegal for businesses to screen job applicants based on their criminal records.

Attorney General Karl Racine has made a name for himself fighting slumlords. But there are limits to how swiftly his office can enforce housing code violations.

The city is running a pilot program through September to increase bus ridership

DC’s private sector is now a larger share of the economy, and the City cannot count on increased federal spending to offset negative impacts

Good Wednesday morning. After much pontificating about Muriel Bowser not being able to sway the DC Council, the mayor got a key triumph with yesterday’s vote to approve the fiscal 2020 budget.

In the latest episode of his CNN show United Shades of America, comedian W. Kamau Bell travels to our fair District. He notes that the anger people feel towards the nation’s capital is separate from the local city. “If you hate Washington,…

The redevelopment of the Walter Reed campus continues to gain steam.

The six men gathered on a porch in Southeast Washington were reminiscing. Buddies since childhood, they were now in their late 70s and have been getting together at least once a month for the past 30 years.