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Immigration activists and advocates question whether D.C. is really a ‘sanctuary city.’

Major investors looking to buy into D.C.'s retail market can have trouble finding large enough properties to feed their appetite, but one firm last month found a place to deploy $20M in a rapidly growing D.C. neighborhood.

Want to talk about gun violence? Look no further than our nation’s capital. With the exception of 2012, when the city recorded 88 homicides, there have been at least 100 homicides here every year since 1999, guns being the chief weapon of…

After graduating from college in 2015, Antonio Myers, 25, had some trouble finding steady work. He was a marketing assistant at a nonprofit. Then, he became a mail clerk at a federal agency in D.C. He had two stints of unemployment — one…

The Macy's in downtown D.C. will start selling secondhand clothing in a partnership with tech retailer ThredUp. It may be the first time in the history of the department store located at 12th and G streets NW near Metro Center that a used…

Tel Aviv-based MIXER Work & Lounge, which operates three high-end coworking offices in Israel with a fourth on the way, will open its first U.S. location in D.C. near the convention center.

Jessica Rosenberg, a technical writer in D.C., was excited to attend Sunday’s game at Nationals Park with her husband and 10-month-old daughter for what was fittingly themed Family Day.

Tenant activism has trickled its way through the District in recent years, building by building.

A vacant building with ties to two neighborhoods may soon be restored as residential.

After graduating from college in 2015, Antonio Myers, 25, had some trouble finding steady work. He was a marketing assistant at a nonprofit. Then, he became a mail clerk at a federal agency in D.C. He had two stints of unemployment — one…

When the temperature climbs above 90 degrees, neighbors often head to the Deanwood Community Center on 49th Street Northeast -- hoping to cool off at the facility's indoor poor.

Two of Shanda Smith's children were murdered in 1993. Decades later, she's working on quilts to remember them.

It’s game night at Lou’s City Bar, with the Redskins’ crushing preseason defeat to the Cleveland Browns well underway.

Bar owners Geoff Dawson and Mark Handwerger thought Buffalo Billiards would always be around. But this Saturday, their flagship bar is closing after 25 years.

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial opened in 1943, but the effort to clean and restore it is using some 21st-century technology.

You’ve seen those yard signs — “Hate has no home here” — all over liberal D.C., right?

For 42 years, the District’s Human Rights Act has protected workers in the nation’s capital from discrimination and harassment based on race, gender or sexual orientation — with one notable exception.

Humidity has increased 5 to 10 percent since 1970, turning hot summer days even more unbearable

Following the approval of Ballot Initiative 71 legalizing adult-use recreational cannabis in the District of Columbia, Congress prohibited its full implementation. Consequently, cannabis is legal to grow, possess and gift, but cannot be…

To the untrained eye, they may look like Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols or some obscure variety of neume.