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Last year the Washington region came together to fix a 40-year-old problem by providing Metro with dedicated funding. Now elected officials and business and nonprofit leaders are preparing a push to overcome another challenge: the critical…

D.C. sports betting parlors are expected to open their doors late this year or early next, but first, questions must be answered about the company contracted to do the work and the way the D.C. government approved the no-bid contract.

She requested information about hate crimes in D.C. and got no reply. So D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton sent a second letter to the U.S. Attorney for the District.

At DC Scholars Stanton Elementary School, Assistant Principal Shaunte Daniel gave each student a hug as they entered the building on Tuesday morning. They smiled, some blushed, and hugged her back.

A 46-year-old Baltimore man pleaded guilty on Tuesday morning to killing two women crossing the street in downtown D.C. last December, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of D.C. announced in a press release.

A prominent newspaper columnist giving a talk at a local university isn’t even slightly out of the ordinary. But in the case of New York Times columnist Bret Stephens accepting George Washington University’s invitation to speak on campus…

(And Dolly Parton Is Very Happy About It)

A retail property in Northwest D.C. sold below its asking price, showing potential investor concerns about the economy.

Incensed by what she described as an inadequate response to a record number of hate crimes, Washington’s lone member of Congress has doubled down in her attempt to find out why the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia isn’t…

D.C. emergency dispatchers took four minutes to send D.C. Fire personnel to the scene of a Brightwood fire that killed two people, including a 9-year-old boy. The city’s own response time standards (which mirror national standards) call…

Children’s National Health System and HSC Health Care System have earned regulatory approval for a deal to combine.

It’s the first expansion of the site since its dedication in 1971

Takoma often gets confused for it’s Maryland neighbor, Takoma Park, and while some residents are understandably annoyed by this, there’s at least a good historical reason for it. In addition to a shared founding, the two Takomas share some…

If you’re thinking about moving to D.C., think hard. Employment opportunities abound, but living costs are high. The weather can get brutally hot in the summer (don’t even get us started on the mosquitoes), and much of the culture revolves…

Earlier this summer, DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson filed a zoning application to nudge the Zoning Commission — and the Office of Planning (OP) — to codify short-term rentals in DC as by-right in residential zones. Now, the planning…

When Phil Colbert moved into his home in Northwest Washington in January, all he had was a few blankets and a Panasonic stereo.

D.C. ticket writers and a new residents’ app have new ways to be watching you.

From a distance, the pavilions of the new Kennedy Center expansion look a bit like thick shavings taken from the bulk of the arts center’s old building. They are covered in gleaming white concrete, which reminds one of the Carrara marble…

DECRIMINALING PROSTITUTION has become a priority for the progressive movement, and the movement is slowly picking up steam across the country. That it seems to have found a receptive audience with the D.C. Council is not a big surprise,…

When Randolph Nelson is having breakfast — Fruity Pebbles in a recycled takeout container — outside his front door, he greets the commuters walking past.