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When Michelle Hunt learned this month she had made the dean’s list in college, she knew just the person she needed to call: Yaayaa-Maria Hunt, her 26-year-old daughter.

As D.C. struggles to address the affordable housing crisis, one lawmaker hopes a bill he introduced will offer additional protections for people who do find places to live.

Owner Khepra Anu's lease was terminated, but he'll move operations to Tastemakers.

It’s been over 25 years since C. Brian Williams started showcasing stepping as an artistic dance form with Step Afrika!, and it’s been over 30 years since he was introduced to stepping as a student at Howard University. As Step Afrika!…

The author of an upcoming book on gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny’s groundbreaking work beginning in the late 1950s in fighting the federal government’s discrimination against gay people has given the Blade an advance look at the book’s…

Officials in the Department of General Services (DGS) said they will release an update about lead levels on D.C. public school playgrounds within the coming months. They revealed this timeline amid demands from parents, community members…

WASHINGTON — You would think neighbors in the Fairlawn section of Southeast would be happy that Eagle Academy may be moving out of the community. But a group of homeowners feel like they've been duped by the school and its developers, who…

Melissa Lavasani, spokesperson for Decriminalize Nature DC, said psychedelic mushrooms alleviated her depression after the birth of her son.

The long-awaited app to place bets on sports is scheduled to launch in the nation’s capital in March, D.C. gambling regulators said Friday, and the only application for a sportsbook license so far involves a British bookmaker looking to…

There’s a chance sports betting in the District could arrive in time for the Super Bowl.

Washington’s newest museum hasn’t yet opened its doors, but already Ron Moten is thinking about the people who will walk out of them.

The 100 block of K Street NE is a dank and gloomy underpass connecting rapidly growing neighborhoods of high-end condos, gleaming office buildings and trendy restaurants. The rumble of trains pulling in and out of Union Station on the…

On the heels of D.C. Council member Jack Evans’s announcement that he will resign on Jan. 17, council member Kenyan R. McDuffie (D-Ward 5) said in an emailed release: “With this now behind us, the Council can begin to rebuild the public’s…

A year after the District government literally cleaned up the federal government’s mess during the five-week government shutdown, D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton is demanding that the National Park Service pay up.

One hundred and seventeen homeless people died in the District in 2019. One of those people was Alice Ann Carter, a 35-year-old transgender woman.

In the yearslong legal battle over the redevelopment of the McMillan Sand Filtration Plant, the project’s backers picked up a victory Friday — but like so many others in the long-stalled project, the victory may be short-lived as opponents…

It's official: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns one more home in DC.

The impending resignation of Jack Evans, a titan of D.C. politics who championed business interests and the city’s growth, marks a new era for the D.C. Council, which has drifted further left in recent years.

The future looks bleak for D.C.’s last standing streetcar bridge, which has been abandoned since streetcars stopped operating on the Glen Echo Trolley Line in 1960.

"I like a New York strip," the mayor said of her favorite cut.