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Protests in D.C. following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody have stretched into a seventh day Thursday, and local leaders are expecting even bigger demonstrations over the weekend.

On Wednesday night, two tense days after the federal government ordered police to tear-gas protesters by Lafayette Square, Kenny Sway turned on his powered speaker and backing tracks, and began to sing on 16th Street, Northwest, with the…

Georgetown is working on giving pedestrians more socially-distanced breathing room by taking away some street parking to widen sidewalks, but it will be different than what has been done in the past.

The bevy of problems around Tuesday’s D.C. primary—including hours-long lines at the polls and absentee ballots that were never delivered—have prompted calls for accountability, with Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Council asking the…

With increasingly hotter and more humid weather in D.C., a local branch of the NAACP is working to distribute emergency kits to thousands of protesters outside.

As dusk fell on the fifth day of protests in the nation’s capital — with thousands of people gathered as close as they could get to the White House — a woman with long violet braids strode to the heart of the crowd, gripped a microphone…

The ACLU is investigating allegations of unlawful arrests and excessive force this week by local and federal law enforcement in Washington, DC.

“There was a decade, maybe two, when the city seemed a good idea . . .”

A year after the Office of Planning (OP) proposed amendments that could add more activity along DC's alleys, the Zoning Commission has scheduled a public hearing.

Chef Mollie Moore left a career in upscale kitchens to make it happen.

Knockoff masks. Sick employees. Scared children.

If those walls could talk, the bricks of the former Lorton Reformatory would likely express surprise.

D.C. developers have continued breaking ground on new projects as they expect the market will recover by the time they deliver, but some apartment buildings that have completed construction and begun moving residents in during the…

Just because the courts are open does not mean players are able to play like they did before the pandemic.

In the wake of protests over police brutality, some are left asking whether the D.C. police force’s budget is too big and oversight of the department is too meager.

At 1:30 a.m., Michael and Joan Kim were jolted awake by an alarm. Lying in bed, they grabbed their iPhones and watched what a security camera had captured moments before: the back of a U-Haul van ramming through the glass side wall of the…

Protesters hit the streets of D.C. for the sixth day in a row Wednesday as local leaders eased up restrictions on the demonstrations. The protests that have been going on in the U.S. and worldwide for several days were spurred by the…

What appeared to be hundreds of Army National Guard troops were shuttled into the Marriott Marquis next to the Washington Convention Center in downtown D.C. this week.

A major architecture firm is moving from Georgetown, the city's traditional hub for design companies, to an emerging neighborhood in Northeast D.C.

St. John’s Episcopal Church for decades has been the cheery-yellow backdrop for smiling presidents going to worship on holidays or before their swearings-in. In the past few days, its exterior — across Lafayette Square from the White House…