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Richard “Dickie” Shannon's daughter and granddaughter operate the Takoma restaurant that's becoming famous for gumbo.

Last week, workers who were renovating the basement of a townhouse in Georgetown discovered something a bit more surprising than water damage or outdated plumbing: human remains.

Consider this winter a preview of the region’s future.

As the gentrification of H Street NE continues apace, the neighborhood is losing one of its most iconic institutions. Horace and Dickie’s, a fried fish carryout that’s operated on H Street for 30 years, told WJLA on Tuesday that it’s…

For 125 miles over snow and ice, a District mother will cross-country ski across Norway later this month to raise money and awareness for her daughter’s rare genetic disorder.

George Washington University Medical School in D.C. has become the first in the region to roll out a program aimed at educating doctors and community members to consider food as medicine.

President Trump on Tuesday withdrew the nomination of former U.S. attorney Jessie K. Liu of the District of Columbia to a high-ranking Treasury Department post after being lobbied by critics of her office’s handling of cases, including…

More than dozen constitutional amendments proposed

Last fall, the House of Representatives' Oversight and Reform Committee held its first hearing on granting Washington, DC statehood since 1993. Today, the committee voted the Washington, D.C. Admission Act out of committee by a vote of…

When Statesmen College Preparatory Academy was enrolling students for the fall of 2018, Kevin and Satira Corbitt weren’t completely sold on the new school.

An institution for fish lovers in NE DC will go out of business as of March 1st after 30 years.

President Trump is withdrawing his nomination for former U.S. attorney for D.C. Jessie Liu to serve as the Treasury Department's undersecretary for terrorism and financial crimes, a top position overseeing economic sanctions, according to…

A House committee on Tuesday advanced a D.C. statehood bill to the floor for the first time since 1993, bringing advocates closer to their goal of making the nation’s capital the 51st state.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three years after the opening of the Smithsonian’s landmark Museum of African American History and Culture, momentum is building toward the creation of a museum dedicated to American women’s history.

A House committee voted Tuesday to send the D.C. statehood bill to the House Floor. The proposal passed 21-16.

The Trump administration is planning to move the Environmental Protection Agency from leased space at Potomac Yard to the federally owned William Jefferson Clinton complex in downtown D.C.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced Tuesday he is suing Infinity Real Estate, as well as its executive and two of its affiliates, for allegedly charging extra fees to the holders of low-income housing vouchers in the District and…

There was plenty to chatter about after the Academy Awards on Sunday (Parasite! Eminem? etc) but only one segment had connections to one of the most haunting corners of D.C. Kazu Hiro, who took home an Oscar for his makeup work on the…

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is suing three related real estate companies for discriminating against people who sought apartments using taxpayer-funded housing vouchers, including those exiting local homeless shelters.

A D.C. elementary school mistakenly turned over the wrong second-grader to a child-welfare worker arranging a visit between a foster child and his father, city officials said Tuesday.