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In 2016, public radio station manager J.J. Yore made repeated attempts to get rid of an employee he suspected was a serial sexual harasser. But the administrators he answered to recommended warnings and reprimands instead.

Earlier this summer, demonstrators filled D.C.’s streets to protest the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other victims of police violence. The Trump administration sent in national law enforcement to quell the protests, a move…

The D.C. Water and Sewage Authority is offering funds to help residents in the Riggs Park and Edgewood neighborhoods who experienced sewage overflow in their homes, as record-setting rainfall and flash floods hit the region last week.

The urgent phone calls, text messages and emails flooded Art Mola’s phone.

Sydney Miles heard an ominous swishing sound last Thursday in the basement of her childhood home, which she shares with her mother in Northeast Washington’s Edgewood neighborhood. Dim images of the basement appeared on a security camera:…

The National Portrait Gallery officially reopens at 11:30 a.m. Friday after months of a pandemic shutdown.

Coronavirus upended just about any plans the D.C. area’s health systems took into 2020. And while the pandemic stalled construction across Greater Washington, it didn’t derail their projects entirely — especially those nearing their…

Financial help is being made available to D.C. homeowners who had sewage backups Sept. 10, when the city’s sewer system was overwhelmed by record rainfall in a short period of time.

JJ Yore, then the general manager of local public radio station WAMU, faced more than 100 of his employees at a tense companywide Zoom meeting in late July. The subject was a recent DCist investigation that uncovered numerous sexual…

It took less time for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to defeat Nazi Germany as supreme commander of the Allied armies in World War II than it did to design and construct the memorial to him that will be dedicated Thursday in Washington.

Hours before law enforcement forcibly cleared protesters from Lafayette Square in early June amid protests over the police killing of George Floyd, federal officials began to stockpile ammunition and seek devices that could emit deafening…

Hours before federal police officers cleared a crowded park near the White House with smoke and tear gas on June 1, the lead military police officer in the Department of Defense for the D.C. region asked if the D.C. National Guard had a…

A 77-year-old woman has been watching from the bay windows in her Southeast Washington home.

D.C. residents detailed their hardships in fighting to get their unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic to a council committee Wednesday.

Hours spent on hold. Months of delays. Confusing forms offered only in English and Spanish. These were among the dozens of problems District workers reported Wednesday during a hearing on D.C.’s unemployment benefits system.

St. Elizabeths, the District’s only public psychiatric hospital, has ramped up its use of restraint and seclusion on patients in recent years, according to a report on the Southeast facility, released Monday by Disability Rights DC.

Kevin Ford’s first night of intense sleep troubles came in early June.

Kelly Granger decided she wanted to adopt a dog in February 2020. The first American case of COVID-19 had just been diagnosed, and she was listening to “The Coronavirus Goes Global,” an episode of the New York Times podcast The Daily.

When D.C. group The JoGo Project starts a call-and-response song with a virtual audience, it’s a little underwhelming.

Renée Fleming and Vanessa Williams will sing to a real audience in a completely transformed opera house.