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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has long expressed concern about returning citizens in the District of Columbia, going back to her days as a Ward 4 council member.

For decades, experts have been predicting the death of small, independent bookstores. In the 1990s, the villains were mega-stores, like Barnes & Noble and Borders. The new millennium saw the rise of online bookselling, which offers far…

WASHINGTON — Monumental Sports & Entertainment, which completed a $40 million renovation of Capital One Arena last summer, is investing another $15 million to make the arena more of a digital experience, including the largest…

With their days of street beef well behind them, a group of millennials, many of whom will soon enter their 30s immersed in the career field of their choice, reflected on their former lives and where they fit in efforts to quell the…

Next week, hundreds of prospective lawyers will sit down to take the D.C. bar exam. But while they do, hundreds more are still stuck in limbo, waiting on the D.C. Courts to give them permission to practice law after passing the bar exam…

Three years after launching an expensive education experiment, the District is eliminating extended school years at 13 campuses after city leaders said there was scant evidence of improved academic achievement, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D)…

WASHINGTON — Food insecurity — or the state of being without reliable access to affordable and nutritious food — affects nearly 40 million Americans, and can lead to a number of negative health outcomes, including hypertension, diabetes,…

Planet Word, the new language museum taking over D.C.’s historic Franklin School, will feature a talking tree.

The Washington jazz scene barely resembles Duke Ellington's day, but younger artists and smaller venues keep the legacy going.

If you’re a resident of the Washington, DC area, chances are you’ve been following the debate over late night Metro service – or have been affected by the cuts. In 2016, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) cut late…

A new biography of Hope Ridings Miller looks at the journalist's life and legacy.

In 2005, Malissa Freese took an eye-opening trip in search of a new home. Coming off DC’s Interstate 295, she hit the block of Benning Road NE that houses an unsightly Pepco facility and made a left turn on Anacostia Avenue into River…

Looks like it's too little, too late

More and more members of Congress are declaring their intentions to run for president next year. While John Delaney is already from the region, most hail from out of town and have to start fresh when they establish District digs. So what…

Last September, the Zoning Commission (ZC) granted approval to a second-stage planned-unit development (PUD) for the two remaining sites at the Waterfront Station development just steps from the Waterfront Metro station. Now, the project…

Convene, a meeting and event space provider moving into the coworking sector, has just made a big splash in the D.C. office market.

When the call came in to cover a Dupont Circle snowball fight, I didn’t blink.

The MPD has no official policy guiding release of information following an officer-involved shooting, an MPD spokesperson says.

Still missing the Tommy Show? Well, now there’s an app for that.