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Despite the D.C. Council's desire to fast-track sports betting in D.C., a citywide mobile sports gambling app won't be available until January 2020 at the earliest. A recent report from the Council's…

Former Mayor Tony Williams recalls her local touch

A disproportionate number of black people in the District are arrested for minor violations that include smoking marijuana in public, driving without a license and gambling, a study from two watchdog…

The District’s latest “health equity” maps shows a city divided by race and income. How well you live, or sometimes whether you live at all, can depend on what side of the line you are on.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's plans to raise taxes to generate funding for new affordable housing investments have cleared a key budgetary hurdle, but the exact shape of those housing programs remains a…

Alice M. Rivlin, a master of budgetary policy who held senior positions in the executive and legislative branches of government — notably as founding director of the Congressional Budget Office — and…

The owner of the retail building at 1214-1216 Bladensburg Road NE (map), along with contract purchaser Urbanico Realty Group, has plans in the works to replace the structure with a 41-unit…

By her own admission, Diane R. Johnson spoiled her first dog.

Black D.C. residents represent 47% of the city’s population, but a new report from the ACLU of D.C. found that from 2013 to 2017, 86% of people arrested by the city’s police department were black.

A white mulberry tree, which predates the 1885 dedication of the nearby Washington Monument, has toppled because of saturated ground.

The felled mulberry tree “predates the dedication of the Washington Monument,” per the Park Service

Street safety improvements are planned for a large area of Northwest from Spring Valley to the Potomac River

Proposed changes to the District’s Freedom of Information Act will not be one of the issues the D.C. Council considers during its first round of budget debates Tuesday.

Shaw residents want a new middle school, but Banneker High needs a new facility. It has become the latest fight over race and gentrification.

A long-awaited moment in budget season comes when DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson releases his package of budget changes, which combine, reconcile, and sometimes reverse things from the individual…

Arena Stage claimed seven trophies for four shows at Monday night’s Helen Hayes Awards at the Anthem, where the prizes for Washington-area theater were liberally spread out.

The mayor has made her beliefs clear: The fate of a vacant school building on prime real estate in Northwest Washington represents the latest gentrification fight in a city full of them.

Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral, the Washington Monument, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa are in the collection

The former publisher of The Current newspapers petitioned to change the company’s bankruptcy filing from a Chapter 11 to a Chapter 7 in late April, further eroding any hope that the 52-year-old…

As the D.C. Council was poised to vote Tuesday on a $15.5 billion budget for the coming fiscal year, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) continued to skirmish with lawmakers over two of District residents’…