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It was the morning after the election of America’s first black president, and Kwame Onwuachi was hungover. He’d been partying all night. He was dealing drugs to survive after he dropped out of college. He was, he says, lost.

A children’s hospital in the District has reported an outbreak of norovirus, saying three of its patients showed signs of the illness last week and have tested positive.

D.C. leaders are searching for answers and proposing policy changes to quell the violence as the city’s homicide rate continues to climb.

From shirts, to signs, to decorations, the color pink was prominent along the Wharf as D.C.’s Cherry Blossom Party moves to the Southwest Waterfront on Saturday.

The National Children’s Museum ’s anticipated new home opens Nov. 1 in the Ronald Reagan Building in downtown Washington, signaling a new chapter for a beloved institution that has been closed for more than four years.

Beginning Monday, D.C. Superior Court jurors will receive a little more cash for their service.

In 1998 Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was beaten, tortured and left to die on a fence in Laramie, Wyoming. After he died, there was a vigil, national outrage and a call for legal action against hate crimes.

Roughly 200 D.C. residents who are members of AARP went to the John A. Wilson Building on Monday to let their lawmakers and Mayor Muriel Bowser know they want their needs met and won’t be easily fooled by false promises.

Philip Pannell, one of Ward 8’s most effective political and civic activists, raised eyebrows at a recent meeting when he said that the number of development projects and new residents coming to Anacostia will turn the Southeast…

A children’s hospital in Northeast D.C. is being impacted by an outbreak of norovirus, health officials confirm.

APPEARING BEFORE the D.C. Council at the start of its consideration of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s (D) proposed fiscal 2020 budget, the city’s independent chief financial officer, Jeffrey S. DeWitt, warned of “yellow flashing signals” in the…

The D.C. Public Library is looking to add books written and self-published by local authors to their online collection.

The day it all began, in late March of last year, Kenneth Holmes had been at Howard University for about two years. During that time, Holmes, Howard’s vice president of student affairs, had spoken with students about their needs and…

From her wheelchair, Anna Landre can only see the top half of the ad, but it’s enough to make her stop in the middle of a walkway on Georgetown University’s campus. It shows a boy with one leg wearing a baseball uniform.

You can still purchase cheese and charcuterie at the Dean & Deluca in Georgetown, but no wine to go with it. The local outpost of the gourmet grocery chain was hit with a 35-day liquor license suspension and a $30,000 fine for selling…

Miriam Sutton likes to wander around her neighborhood in Northeast Washington with secrets in her pocket: palm-size handmade stickers, decorated to look like Japanese paper cranes. She started making them for a friend who'd fallen ill — in…

The new report highlights past, present and future challenges the city must address to keep the arts alive in the District

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine on Friday said an investigation found that a 10-year-old boy shown in a video that went viral after he was handcuffed by police and accused of robbing another youth near Union Station is innocent and…

Ward 5 resident and DCPS graduate Sarah Jackson entered the My School DC lottery this year, hoping for an outcome much different from her prior attempts to secure a proximate and quality public education for her daughter.

Is your March Madness bracket busted? Are you allergic to cherry blossoms? The 2019 Washington Auto Show opened Friday at the Washington Convention Center in downtown D.C.