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Twelve years ago, David Bernhardt, a local contractor and owner of an H Street laundromat, bought a former carriage house in an alley behind the 1200 block of Florida Avenue NE. A carpenter by trade, Bernhardt, along with his family and…

On a cold Monday night in December, Nationals fans came to see the Boys of Summer one more time before the winter pushes out their greatest baseball season till next year.

D.C. police arrested a man on Monday for allegedly scrawling anti-Semitic messages and images on the door of the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue over the Thanksgiving weekend, in what authorities are calling a possible hate crime.

Now that you've decked the halls, you'll need to find the perfect presents. We know just the places.

Local designers and boutique owners are trying to build the city a fashion industry from the ground up.

One local community organization is partnering with residents to plant trees on Mass Ave. Thousands of people pass through the 1900 block of Massachusetts Avenue in Dupont Circle every day, but a row of trees that shaded them isn’t there…

A D.C. Jewish landmark was a target of anti-Semitic graffiti on Friday, an act of vandalism that the organization’s rabbis said fit into a painful nationwide pattern of rising anti-Jewish crime.

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo has increased security after teens set off fireworks that frightened patrons and a nearby shooting left two teens hospitalized at the start of the annual ZooLights festival this weekend.

Firecrackers thrown at an annual winter festival at the National Zoo, followed by the shootings of two teens on the street outside, have renewed concerns about safety at the Woodley Park attraction.

A majority of the D.C. Council wants to censure member Jack Evans and strip him of his committee assignments after an investigation found repeated ethics violations, Chairman Phil Mendelson said.

D.C. Council member Jack Evans is a member of the Sierra Club. The embattled politician has also been endorsed by the organization in past elections. That has changed.

The plan for short-term furnished apartments may be taking a turn at Ampeer Residences.

When her daughter enrolled in preschool at Harriet Tubman Elementary in Columbia Heights last year, Taylor Jantz-Sell decided to sign up as a volunteer and chaperone for school activities and field trips. But when teachers explained what…

"The school was kept out of the loop, clearly. Parents were kept out of the loop. The decision making was at a high level and it didn't involve the community most affected."

D.C. inspectors are checking curbside recycling bins, warning residents who aren't recycling right.

Security enhancements are pending at and around the ZooLights festival at The National Zoo in D.C., after scares on zoo grounds and nearby Saturday night.

The National Zoo beefed up security after two young people were found shot outside its grounds in a weekend incident that disrupted an annual winter festival, officials said Sunday.

The D.C. public school system is scaling back admissions requirements for the city’s selective public high schools, an effort to open elite classrooms to students who live in every corner of the city.

Family and friends protested gun violence Saturday night, demanding justice for the 10-year-old girl who was shot and killed last July coming home from ice cream.

CLARENCE VENABLE, a 40-year-old with young children, was shot to death Nov. 22 in Southeast Washington, becoming the city’s 152nd homicide this year. His murder got more attention than is usual in a city that sadly has become too calloused…