Editor 25036 posts 0 comments

The 21-year-old from D.C. has attracted attention from across the world for poems like "We Just Trying to Grow Up."

More than 1.3 million Washington-area residents are getting outta town for the Fourth of July holiday.

D.C. lawmakers want to send another $30 million in relief grants to businesses after Mayor Muriel Bowser’s 2022 budget proposal was light on direct assistance for struggling companies.

Last month, we organized the first ever “Sidewalk Palooza” to draw attention to pedestrian infrastructure and pedestrian safety issues in DC and the disparity between the city’s response time to these problems versus road infrastructure…

Georgetown’s small experiment with wider sidewalks that it launched in January to accommodate more outside restaurant seating proved popular enough that it’s been greatly expanded, and the sidewalk additions will remain in place through at…

The Library of Congress is our national library, yet its name does not embody that fact. It is our oldest national cultural institution, and debates about its name have swirled since its founding. The headline of an 1897 article in the…

Vaccines are helping us protect ourselves from the coronavirus, but what will protect our children from a widening opportunity gap and the mental health challenges exacerbated by all that we’ve lost over the past 15 months?

The drag races started at midafternoon in the pothole-pocked parking lot in Northeast Washington. The temperature was in the mid-90s. The asphalt shimmered. In the near distance, the decaying hulk of RFK Stadium loomed.

Work on a new bridge and trail in D.C.’s Rock Creek Park will require some midday road closures for nearly the rest of the calendar year along Beach Drive NW.

A five-story building under construction in Northwest Washington collapsed amid a heavy storm Thursday afternoon, trapping one worker in the rubble for about 90 minutes and sending him and four others to hospitals with injuries, according…

The National Mall will be busy this weekend for the Fourth of July fireworks and D.C. police say they’re ready for it.

Metro Transit Police can’t demonstrate that officers investigated thousands of reported robberies, assaults, sex offenses and property crimes over a span of several years, according to the agency’s internal watchdog.

The D.C. government activated its Heat Emergency Plan this week as the heat index reached as high as 105 degrees in some parts of Washington between June 27 and 30. Despite publicly advertised cooling sites, general knowledge of which…

A construction worker has been rescued after being trapped for about an hour and a half in the collapse of a building under construction Thursday afternoon in Northwest D.C.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Five workers were injured Thursday when a building under construction collapsed in the nation’s capital, trapping one man for more than an hour as firefighters worked feverishly to free him from layers of debris.

The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB), an agency charged with setting funding and project priorities for Greater Washington’s transportation sector, voted last month to commit to a new long-range plan that better…

The District’s only general hospital east of the Anacostia River faces major spending cuts — a decision both employees and patients say feels like a betrayal.

Members of the Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH) shelter capacity working group met June 23 to discuss last winter’s shelter numbers and plan bed-capacity recommendations for this winter’s hypothermia season.

The Anacostia Community Museum's new outdoor exhibition highlights 12 local changemakers who work on nutrition, health, and food justice.

He'll pay $2,000 a month for the next two years.