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One of the D.C. region’s largest youth sports organizations is rebranding itself, removing the name of a revolutionary figure with a racist past, as it prepares to recommit to provide soccer to area youth following the pandemic.

You’ll see some modernized faregates the next time you’re headed to catch a Metro train.

The latest DC institution to rebrand itself due to a problematic moniker is long-running youth-sports league DC Stoddert Soccer, which was named after the first Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin Stoddert. Like the blandly named Washington…

When the Enik Alley Coffeehouse opened in a brick-lined carriage house near H Street in the early 1980s, the crack epidemic was ravaging the surrounding communities, and AIDS had left so many dead that the pages of the Washington Blade…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal freeze on most evictions enacted last year is scheduled to expire July 31, after the Biden administration extended the date by a month.

A D.C. police officer and a Maryland woman have been indicted for a scheme in which the officer is accused of giving out identifying information of traffic crash victims in exchange for cash payments.

And that's not the only good local news on the pandemic.

Even Pride Month hasn’t been enough for some of Greater Washington’s gay bars and clubs to really recover from the pandemic — but the problem is no longer the volume of foot traffic.

Casa Ruby, the multicultural nonprofit organization that provides housing and other support services to D.C.’s LGBTQ+ youth, has gone international.

D.C. can’t seem to get money out the door quickly enough to help everyone who has asked for assistance with rent.

As though they didn’t have enough pressing national issues on their plates, five Republican congressmen — Glenn Grothman (Wis.), Ralph Norman (S.C.), Bob Gibbs (Ohio), Pat Fallon and Ronny Jackson (both of Texas) — have introduced…

Sarah, 46, recalls a recent date where she met a guy from a dating app for drinks on the balcony of his apartment. The date went fine: they had an unremarkable conversation, Sarah says, until she was getting ready to leave.

The graduation ceremony for Ballou High School on Wednesday was suffused with reminders of the pandemic. Speakers praised the students’ perseverance through a senior year conducted entirely online. When more than 130 proud graduates lined…

Eight years ago, the 111 houses at The Hampshires development in the DC neighborhood Lamond Riggs started delivering. Developer Comstock Homes had approval for more housing, however, and now another developer hopes to pick up where…

EastBanc and Mitsui Fudosan America’s soon-to-be-completed D.C. residential building The Silva is now pre-leasing.

Annapolis, Maryland-based Mason’s Famous Lobster Rolls holds a grand opening for its new Georgetown location July 1, and someone will win free lobster rolls for a year.

The D.C. Council is considering banning the sale of all flavored tobacco — without any public review or testimony. This lack of transparency is bad enough, but when you look at what this bill would do to small businesses and neighborhoods,…

The redevelopment of Grimke Elementary School on U Street NW is nearing a big milestone nearly a decade in the making.

The Library of Congress will reopen the doors of the Thomas Jefferson Building to the public with timed entry passes beginning on July 15, the library announced Thursday.

D.C. leaders say they are thankful that the collapse of a pedestrian bridge over DC-295 was not deadly, and now they want to know what plans are being made to offer pedestrians a safe way to cross the busy highway.