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D.C. neighborhood commissioners on Tuesday urged At-Large Council Member Robert White to consider providing them with additional resources and further training in a strategic plan funded in this year’s budget.

Researchers say structural racism has left D.C. with stark differences in health outcomes, and a new study takes a deeper look into the issue.

New senior housing may be in the works adjacent to the National Arboretum.

Discount grocer Lidl will open a store at D.C.’s big DC USA shopping complex in Columbia Heights, its first store in Northwest D.C.

A World War I-era unexploded shell discovered in July 2020 by the National Park Service during construction of a trail through Northeast D.C.’s Fort Totten could be a prequel to the decadeslong cleanup of a former World War I chemical…

In an excerpt from his new memoir, “Bird Brother,” Stotts recounts his transformation from drug dealer to environmentalist, and the restorative power he discovered in wildlife.

A group of Union Kitchen employees from the company’s 3rd St. NE, 9th St. NW, and Eckington locations is pushing forward with a unionization attempt.

District residents are blasting the agency in charge of garbage collection, leaf cleanup, and towing abandoned vehicles over its management and claims of slow service.

D.C.’s progress in ending the HIV epidemic slowed in 2020 despite drops in new diagnoses, per a new report out Monday.

A House subcommittee is set to hold a hearing Wednesday on the problem-plagued D.C. Metro transit system.

The nation’s third-largest transit system has struggled through one of its most challenging periods in recent months

Black prisoners sentenced in D.C.'s local court face harsher prison conditions than White people with similar criminal histories sentenced in the District’s federal court, according to a federal class-action lawsuit filed by the city’s…

A month after the grocer broke ground on its first location in DC, Lidl Food Market is moving toward opening a second.

The census showed record growth in the Greater Washington region between 2010 and 2020, ballooning from 5.6 to 6.4 million people, according to a new report from Urban Institute fellow Peter Tatian.

Every time I think of Jim Saah — the Maryland photographer who last year published a coffee-table book full of pictures of the D.C. punk scene — I can’t help but feel a twinge of pain.

An underused portion of Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling immediately south of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge may become a new headquarters campus for the National Park Service, according to documents released by a federal planning…

A company accused of offering predatory online loans with interest rates up to 42 times higher than the legal limit in D.C. has agreed to pay nearly $4 million to D.C. residents as part of a settlement announced by D.C. Attorney General…

The president of George Washington University has said it was a mistake to have posters on campus critical of the Chinese government taken down, but the artist who made the posters said that’s not nearly enough.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced tens of millions of extra dollars for education in her next budget, which city education leaders say will help schools manage rising costs.

The pandemic has been chaotic for the DMV’s food and service workers, as they whipsaw from finding enough work earlier in the pandemic to being overworked while short-staffed.