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It's a gorgeous fall evening near U Street, too early for the real nightlife to be happening, but the go-go music's playing anyway from speakers outside the Metro PCS store. You can hear it from a block away, outside a club called Uproar…

Dramatic new developments at Union Station will reshape the future of the transit hub and its surrounding areas. The station is set to have a major facelift with improvements to existing facilities and some new additions to its exterior.

Riding on sidewalks and improper parking are among top complaints from residents in the D.C. areas where dockless electric scooter vendors are allowed to operate. The District Department of Transportation will attempt to address both…

Clifton Braxton sat in his Buick Encore in the parking lot of Washington’s VA Medical Center last week and showed how he could transform the vehicle into a bedroom. An Air Force veteran who served during the Vietnam War, he struggled with…

The latest revelations of Jack Evans’s alleged ethics violations appear to leave little doubt that he will have to give up his powerful seat on the D.C. Council. The main question now is how much longer he can hang on and further damage…

A partnership between Monumental Sports and KultureCity, a nonprofit that advocates for sensory inclusion, is expanding accessibility at Capital One Arena so people with sensory challenges can enjoy large events — with tools at hand in the…

The Washington Capitals are red hot right now, beating up opponents up and down the ice this season. Now they’ve picked a new target to take on off the ice: cancer.

When she taught first-graders in Bethesda public schools, Ann Friedman relied on activities to engage them. Playing games, reciting poetry, putting on plays — all were roads to learning how to read.

The warning signs were evident last month when enterprise leaders, economic analysts, and a previous city mayor and the current D.C. Council chair gathered at the University of the District of Columbia to assess the state of the local and…

School buildings ought to be used as schools, particularly when there are 12,000 students on waiting lists to attend a high-quality public charter school. It’s common sense, but it lately seems out of fashion at the Wilson Building. D.C.…

George Washington University officials are condemning an anti-Semitic video in which a student referred to Jewish people by a vulgarity.

JAVED BHUTTO was shot and killed March 1 as he unloaded groceries from the trunk of his car in the parking lot of his condo complex in Southeast Washington. His alleged killer was his neighbor, a man who had killed someone else in another…

When D.C. Council member Jack Evans proposed a bill in 2011 that would have shifted more city government deposits into local banks, he told a business journal he got the idea from EagleBank, one of a few institutions that would have…

Bonds announced on public radio that she privately recommended Jack Evans' resignation. She's also says she's not publicly calling for him to step down. What?

On Friday morning, Mayor Muriel Bowser left for a five-day diplomatic and trade mission to Ethiopia.

In preparation for the Supreme Court Hearing on Tuesday for DACA, students march to the Court’s steps to demand justice for immigrants.

The graduation rate for the District’s traditional public high schools dropped 3.5 percentage points in 2019 — the second consecutive decline since the system faced scrutiny over whether students properly earn their diplomas.

As the District changes and grows, pieces of what once was are disappearing to make way for what’s next.

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo in D.C. welcomed a new prickly addition to its Small Mammal House with the birth of a porcupine, and this species has a unique tail.

Motivational speakers, meals, manicures and information on District services all were included in D.C.’s eighth annual Veterans Appreciation Day.