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On March 7, 1965 one of the most violent days of the Civil Rights Movement occurred as peaceful marchers were brutally attacked and beaten by state troopers and men as they tried to cross along the…

The District of Columbia is known for many things: politics, Go-go, cuisine and culture. On historic U Street, public art is also another staple of the community and one of the District’s most…

The word spread on a Reddit thread, in texts between friends, and on street corners in Northwest Washington: In honor of International Women’s Day, a liquor store in Columbia Heights would be giving…

For decades, Leah Graham was a pillar in her neighborhood in Southeast Washington, tending her vegetable garden, helping sick neighbors, baking her signature strawberry cake with icing made of…

D.C. Lottery vendor Intralot, the beneficiary of a change in the law that handed it a sole source sports betting contract, has been downgraded by Moody’s Investors Service.

I met Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) nearly 30 years ago when I was a Post editorial writer and he was an advisory neighborhood commissioner. At the time, he was running in the 1991 Ward 2 special election to…

If you bought a home in DC back in 2013, new data reveals that you have made a tidy return on your investment. A new analysis by UrbanTurf takes a look at the trajectory of home prices in the last…

When I visited Red Bear Brewing Co.’s warehouse space in September, it was a bleak and miserable concrete cave of hollow beerlessness. But that’s not how co-founder Bryan Van Den Oever saw it. He was…

Voting rights legislation passed in the House of Representatives on Friday includes a provision that supports full congressional voting rights and self-government for the District, marking the first…

D.C. has built thousands of new affordable units in recent years, but many wealthy neighborhoods in Northwest have failed to deliver any meaningful contribution to the city's housing stock.

Despite a hot jobs market, Washington and the nation are confronting a quiet employment crisis: legions of formerly incarcerated individuals who have little or no hope of becoming productive members…

The annual Rock 'n’ Roll Marathon will bring more than 17,000 runners and thousands more spectators to the nation’s capital Saturday, closing streets and disrupting traffic, parking and transit…

Federal subpoenas have been delivered to the D.C. Council and the mayor’s office as part of an investigation into Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans.

The legal quicksand continues to expand around Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans, as his colleagues at the D.C. Council have received a subpoena demanding that they preserve all of their communications…

The D.C. Council has received a federal subpoena for a wide range of information related to Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) and his private legal and consulting clients.

The House of Representatives passed a sweeping election reform bill on Friday known as H.R. 1 and dubbed the “For the People” Act. While Democrats voted nearly unanimously to advance the measure,…

The General Services Administration is shifting its focus from adaptive reuse to new construction for the Department of Homeland Security's consolidation at the St. Elizabeths West campus, where it…

The influential urbanist site is scrambling to plot a way forward.

A basketball hoop attached to a grain silo. Another nailed to a tree in the woods. A third, surrounded by cacti in the desert.

More than 25,000 runners and tens of thousands of spectators are anticipated to turn out for the event