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Thanks to warmer-than-expected temperatures last weekend, D.C.’s cherry blossoms popped out ahead of schedule and swathed the Tidal Basin in their famous pink-and-white hues.

Ward 7 Councilmember Vincent Gray is urging D.C. to use eminent domain to seize land from a company that plans on opening a halfway house off Benning Road NE, according to a draft of the bill obtained by DCist/WAMU. The proposal is the…

The D.C. Chamber of Commerce just picked up a win in court in a long-running legal dispute with some of its former attorneys, though the case isn't over.

D.C. police have a new second in command. Officials announced Thursday that ATF veteran Ashan Benedict has been appointed Executive Assistant Chief of Police.

Gray wants to use eminent domain to take the land out from under the Bureau of Prisons and its operator, CORE DC

We look at the legislation Christina Henderson, Janeese Lewis George, and Brooke Pinto have introduced.

In a not-so-distant future, fewer armed police would patrol D.C.’s streets, social workers could respond to many 911 calls for service, and a strengthened social safety net would quickly help vulnerable residents get everything from drug…

Casa Ruby, the iconic Shepherd Park nonprofit serving LGBT youth in D.C., is searching for a new location.

On my first day living in Washington, I crossed the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge and saw the best of the city laid out like a panorama of postcard views — the Kennedy Center, the Washington and Lincoln memorials, and the necklace of green…

In a not-so-distant future, fewer armed police would patrol D.C.’s streets, social workers could respond to many 911 calls for service, and a strengthened social safety net would quickly help vulnerable residents get everything from drug…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials in the nation’s capital are watching the crowds as cherry blossom season begins in earnest.

There may have been a chill and clouds overhead on March 24, 2020, but it was a bright day for Justin Cox. He had finally gotten all of his permits in order to open a new Navy Yard tap room for his Atlas Brew Works, its first expansion…

Mini-golf is trending in D.C. For the second time in a month comes news of an upscale indoor mini-golf bar and restaurant coming to D.C.

The new top federal prosecutor in Washington is standing by a Trump-era Justice Department policy of charging certain gun crimes in federal court instead of locally, continuing an initiative that draws stiffer prison sentences and has…

Despite the reopening of most private museums in Washington, the Smithsonian and the National Gallery of Art have no set date to reopen from pandemic-related closures that began in November.

Chioma Oruh's two sons have autism. She said this incident shows the need for better supports when working with students who have special needs.

Half a century before the civil rights movement, Barbara Pope boarded a train and challenged Virginia’s Jim Crow law. Soon, her story was mostly forgotten.

On his way to The Fields at RFK Campus on Saturday, Evan Ross Solomon was thinking about a single musical note: an A. Ross Solomon, the artistic director and a principal conductor of the D.C. Youth Orchestra, was getting ready to lead his…

The D.C. Council’s public safety committee Wednesday unanimously supported Robert J. Contee III as the District’s new police chief, saying his wrenching personal story of growing up amid drugs and crime makes him sensitive to overreaches…

The company that owns fast-food chain Wendy's has a bone to pick with the Bowser administration.