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The District’s attorney general is suing six Maryland parents — including three current or former city employees — for allegedly lying about their residency to send their children to D.C. schools for…

Two 24-hour, stand-alone, public restrooms will be going into still undetermined high-traffic D.C. neighborhoods, where facilities are lacking.

The Catholic University of America has received a $20 million donation from William Conway Jr., co-founder of D.C.-based investment firm The Carlyle Group, and his wife, Joanne.

Bill Conway, co-founder and co-executive chairman of D.C. private equity giant The Carlyle Group LP (NASDAQ: CG), and his wife, Joanne, have made a $20 million donation to Catholic University,…

The three multi-purpose turf fields in Northeast are the latest sports and recreation investment the city has made this past year.

Maury Wills really likes this story. As a teenager, living in the Parkside housing projects off Kenilworth Avenue in Northeast D.C., he would play with a semipro team on Sundays during the summer.…

Of all the creatures that have walked, slithered, swum and soared around the Earth over the past, oh, 3½ billion years, dinosaurs are undoubtedly the coolest. That, in any case, is the consensus view…

D.C.’s crackdown on school residency fraud continued on Thursday, with more parents now facing lawsuits from Attorney General Karl Racine’s office.

D.C.-based Mischo Beauty’s line of luxury nail lacquer is now available through Macy’s online and retail stores, with an possible expansion to Bloomingdale's and Macy's Bluemercury brand by early…

On the eve of D.C.’s first Dyke March in more than a decade, organizers have found themselves responding to allegations of anti-Semitism after they announced that Israeli and other nationalist…

By a parking lot off of Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park, there is a small unassuming building. You might mistake it for a restroom from afar. On a map, you’ll see the name Miller Cabin, but there are…

The DC Jazz Festival can trace its history back to 2004, when founder and longtime executive producer Charlie Fishman came up with the concept of an annual festival that focused on jazz in the…

Summer book season is upon us, and the D.C. Public Library is hoping to get some books about D.C.’s homegrown music genre in your beach bag. The DCPL is launching a three-part Go-Go Book Club in…

Carlson asks if White would campaign in prisons

Ben Finzel’s latest social enterprise already has over 150 members. It’s an LGBTQ professional network for people who work in communications in D.C.—a network that Finzel, 51, didn’t have in his…

A few weeks before Logan Circle advisory neighborhood commissioner John Fanning announced his candidacy for the Ward 2 Council seat, he asked a judge to seal his criminal arrest record.

When Randy Hollerith was a young priest, he used to try to get the tower bedroom, a special nook in an enchanting old Gothic building, whenever he went to a training program at the College of…

Don Fraser, who died this week at the age of 95, was an eight-term congressman from Minnesota and the longest-serving mayor of Minneapolis. He was also the father of Advisory Neighborhood…

Madison Investments has finalized its acquisitions of the former Martha’s Table headquarters and surrounding properties on 14th Street NW, landing a partner and a lender and starting work on a…

Explaining race and racism can feel like a minefield for parents, but a world-renowned expert on the subject suited up for the daunting task at Anne Beers Elementary School in D.C. this week. The…