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At the quarterly Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH) meeting on April 9, members met to discuss and make last-minute suggestions for the draft of the Homeward D.C. progress report, which must…

Washington’s National Theatre has been in business since 1835, yet its archives are largely stuffed into a single small dressing room on the fourth floor. The collection, with playbills and…

Last week, agency heads from several departments that service the residents East of the River laid out their plan for comprehensive programs that would service residents over the upcoming months.

It may have been overcast during most of Saturday, but that didn’t seem to damper the spirits of the thousands of people who gathered at the Freedom Plaza to celebrate the 157th anniversary of…

In commemoration of D.C. Emancipation Day, One DC and We Act Radio hosted a discussion, movie screening and a series of workshops Tuesday centered around the local holiday’s significance in the…

A longtime bike advocate was killed while riding in D.C. Friday morning in what police said was a crash involving a stolen van.

Although D.C. legalized the production and sale of marijuana for medical purposes just over 20 years ago, activists familiar with the city’s implementation of the program say it has become known for…

A bicyclist was fatally struck Friday morning by a stolen van whose driver had fled an attempt by D.C. police to stop him in Northeast Washington, according to a statement from the department.

A beloved D.C. bike advocate was struck and killed by a driver while cycling Friday morning near the H Street NE corridor, according to police. The death is the year’s first cyclist fatality in the…

A longtime D.C. bike advocate was struck and killed by the driver of a stolen van in Trinidad on Friday morning.

If placed end to end, the length of structurally deficient bridges in the D.C. area would stretch nearly four miles and cover the area of 18 football fields, according to a new analysis of federal…

According to data from the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, the D.C. government “engaged” homeless encampments 100 times in 2018. “Engagement” in this case refers to…

A new survey shows that an ounce of weed in D.C. costs nearly twice the national average.

Earlier this week, DCist reported on Howard University students’ frustration over the way that neighbors use The Yard at the center of campus as a place to exercise, spread out a picnic basket,…

The 1700 block of Corcoran Street in Dupont Circle is a microcosm for the current climate of the DC housing market.

Developments in D.C. have already begun to utilize opportunity zone investments, but the money is expected to begin flowing into projects at a faster rate after the federal government released a…

Some D.C. residents haven’t been able to take advantage of the legalization of recreational marijuana. The District law is modeled around “home grow, home use,” and it remains illegal to use…

Elon Musk's the Boring Co. estimates a Washington-Baltimore "loop" would initially be limited to 1,000 passengers in each direction per day and not change travel patterns in the region.

“Why do we have monuments of people who owned slaves?” That’s the question that D.C. Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie’s six-year-old daughter asked him and his wife one day while driving from D.C. into…

A recent National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) study confirms what everyone living here can feel: Washington, DC, has gentrified more intensely than any other city.