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The stories are stitched or scribbled onto squares of red fabric, sometimes a single word, sometimes many, sometimes just a symbol: “I was raped by two or three men while I studied abroad.” “It…

There’s no mistaking when you’ve entered Navy Yard — Nationals Park is by far the D.C. neighborhood’s most distinguishable landmark. But long before there was a venue to root for the home team, the…

The House Committee on Oversight and Reform will hold a hearing on D.C. statehood on July 24, marking the first time in about a quarter century that the issue will be formally reviewed by a House…

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has a lot of details to work out with regard to the Reach, it’s three-pavilion expansion, but one thing is for sure: It will be a big, long party…

The latest Washington Teachers’ Union election is reviving a bitter rivalry as president Elizabeth Davis faces a challenge from Nathan Saunders — the man she ousted from the role in 2013 to win one…

The historic appointment of Lonnie G. Bunch III as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution creates a leadership vacuum at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, where he has…

Mid-way through the opening number of the Cappies, I found myself wishing I had followed one event organizer’s advice and worn earplugs.

There’s a lobbying campaign underway to grant hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax relief—not for a tech giant, but for a small bookstore and cafe near Howard University.

A day after 15-year-old Maurice Scott was shot and killed a few blocks from his Washington D.C. charter school, Demont Pinder got to work.

The District government has filed more than 1,100 administrative charges resulting in nearly $500,000 in settlements after a “ban the box” law made it illegal for businesses to screen job applicants…

Attorney General Karl Racine has made a name for himself fighting slumlords. But there are limits to how swiftly his office can enforce housing code violations.

The city is running a pilot program through September to increase bus ridership

DC’s private sector is now a larger share of the economy, and the City cannot count on increased federal spending to offset negative impacts

In the latest episode of his CNN show United Shades of America, comedian W. Kamau Bell travels to our fair District. He notes that the anger people feel towards the nation’s capital is separate from…

The redevelopment of the Walter Reed campus continues to gain steam.

The six men gathered on a porch in Southeast Washington were reminiscing. Buddies since childhood, they were now in their late 70s and have been getting together at least once a month for the past 30…

Lawmakers also take aim at proposed subsidy for United Medical Center

The future of a vacant school that has emerged as a symbolic battleground over the direction of the District’s public education system was settled Tuesday after two hours of fiery debate among D.C.…

City leaders highlighted the victims from an especially violent Memorial Day in their appeal to prioritize funding for D.C.’s only hospital east of the Anacostia River.

The unofficial start to summer began with a surge of violence over the Memorial Day weekend that included fatal shootings in Southeast Washington and five people wounded by gunfire at an entrance to…