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Most of the money would come from D.C.’s sports and entertainment authority

The D.C. Council is giving United Medical Center about $22 million as part of the new District budget, up from the $15 million subsidy cap that was passed at a first budget reading two weeks ago.

Three people, including a 15-year-old high school freshman, were killed over the holiday weekend, stoking community concerns of a possible repeat of last year’s spike in deadly violence.

The D.C. Council has signed off on a new budget after weeks of debate, finding more funding for affordable housing programs and public housing repairs by relying on a slew of tax changes and even…

Mayor Muriel Bowser's plan to increase taxes on commercial property to build new affordable housing has passed the D.C. Council, despite opposition from the development community and the council…

After a long holiday weekend that included the Sunday shooting death of 15-year-old Maurice Scott near his Somerset Prep D.C. charter school and the Monday shooting that injured five in Barry Farm,…

The D.C. Council spent nearly two hours on the day of its second budget vote once again in a fierce debate about two D.C. schools—Banneker Senior High School and a potential Shaw Middle School—that…

The D.C. Council on Tuesday added millions to subsidize the District’s only public hospital and identified a new funding resource to repair the city’s deteriorated public housing stock with the final…

Lonnie Bunch, the Smithsonian Institution's new secretary, says one of his first goals leading the nearly 175-year-old cultural institution will be creating what he refers to as “the virtual…

Earlier this year, the development team creating a new mixed-income community at the site of the Sursum Corda Cooperative unveiled a different look for the proposed project. Now, revised plans would…

They exchanged more than 1,000 text messages in four months. Police said she was selling sex around the District’s Logan and Thomas circles. They said he was her pimp.

The 50-year-old Embassy of Australia building on D.C.’s Scott Circle will close in November ahead of its demolition and the construction of its 133,000-square-foot replacement.

A new pilot is set to take the helm at the Smithsonian Institution.

Lonnie G. Bunch III — the dynamic founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture — has been appointed secretary of the Smithsonian Institution,…

At a recent panel discussion entitled “The Future of Everything,” Ted Leonsis talked about how gambling is going to fundamentally change the way fans watch sports, whether they’re in the arena or…

Library officials will discuss initial design concepts and other project details

Mary Gerace has lived in the District since 1963 and loves it. But at 73, she worries that someday she may become too frail to stay in the rent-controlled third-floor walk-up apartment in Glover Park…

Hack. Hack. Hack. The tattooed ex-boxer hacked at the cutting board with a 10-inch chef’s knife. “No. That’s not right,” chef Carletta Fletcher said, taking the knife and grimacing at the juicy green…

Recycling isn’t exactly thriving in the nation’s capital. D.C.’s waste diversion rate (the percentage of waste diverted from the landfill or incinerator by recycling or other efforts) hovers around…

An estimated $16 million per year would fund social services instead, under amendment expected to pass.