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Dozens of restaurant workers demonstrated Wednesday outside the high-end Capital Grille, demanding wage reform as their industry and their livelihoods have been decimated by the coronavirus pandemic.

NoMa has another new park on the way. The NoMa Parks Foundation announced Wednesday that it has acquired a vacant lot that will be turned into an 8,400 square-foot public park.

On the day I spoke to author Lawrence Roberts about his new book on the 1971 Mayday protests in Washington, news broke that the Defense Department had inquired whether a heat ray might be available to use against Black Lives Matter…

The $38.5 million loan for the mixed-use project "disregards the city's enormous need for affordable housing," they say.

Washington’s chief financial officer presented a revised revenue report Wednesday showing the coronavirus did not damage the city’s bottom line as much as previously feared — but will likely hurt worse than expected in 2021, as the…

The number of new coronavirus infections this week has fallen to levels last seen in mid-July across the Washington region, although leaders and health officials worry that the return of colder weather could reverse the trend.

Alberto, a server at a restaurant in Shaw, is already preparing for winter.

D.C. officials will face a daunting fiscal picture over the coming years as the financial fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic continues to hit city coffers.

The bad news for District leaders is they have a $782 million budget gap to close over the next four fiscal years, as revenue projections have grown gloomier while the pandemic drags on.

A heated dispute over whether to endorse the Democratic opponent of a popular gay candidate running for the Ward 2 D.C. Council seat as an independent resulted in a decision on Monday night by the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club not to…

In 2003, Bella Evangelista, a respected performer and transgender woman was shot to death on a D.C. street. Five years later, Tony Hunter, an openly gay man, was on his way to a bar when he was assaulted and ultimately died due to a…

When it comes to D.C.’s budget forecast, there’s good news and there’s bad news.

A bottle of hand sanitizer. An abandoned Metro station. A shuttered Ward 6 high school.

The performing arts venue will evaluate whether the event meets its health and safety standards.

Plans for the pop-up lounge generated confusion and frustration within D.C.'s nightlife community.

When D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine took the extraordinary step of suing the city’s public housing authority in June over failures to keep many of its properties safe, executive director Tyrone Garrett lambasted his own staff.

The longest-running film festival in the nation’s capital is pivoting to virtual this year.

The D.C. Housing Authority is offering up a pair of townhome communities and a parking lot for redevelopment, aiming to bring more new construction to the area around the old Sursum Corda apartments near NoMa.

The NoMa Parks Foundation has acquired a vacant lot across the street from Swampoodle Park, a dog park and children’s playground that opened in 2018, with aims of building a companion park.

Poet Kevin Young will be the new director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture starting Jan. 11. He replaces the founding director, Lonnie Bunch, who was tapped to lead the entire Smithsonian organization.