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In the early ’80s, my mother, younger sister and I went to live with my uncle Rev. Dr. James K. McCants where he presided in the church clergy house in Old Georgetown. What would become my address,…

See your options in neighborhoods like Capitol Hill and Eckington

A battle of wills is brewing between Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen and Mayor Muriel Bowser.

She has walked about 1,800 miles in those brown, desert boots.

After extended listening sessions — where acting schools chancellor Lewis Ferebee visited schools, parent groups and sat through hours of testimony in Council hearing — the chancellor announced some…

The District has a number of people who are cool, smart and well-connected — and deeply in student debt.

The District Department of Transportation wants to make clear to drivers that the city’s bike lanes are not to be used for parking, or to pick up or drop off passengers; it also wants to leave no…

In 2017, UrbanTurf took a closer look at the return on investment that small-scale developers can expect in DC when converting a single-family home into condominium units. Since then, home prices…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has long expressed concern about returning citizens in the District of Columbia, going back to her days as a Ward 4 council member.

For decades, experts have been predicting the death of small, independent bookstores. In the 1990s, the villains were mega-stores, like Barnes & Noble and Borders. The new millennium saw the rise…

WASHINGTON — Monumental Sports & Entertainment, which completed a $40 million renovation of Capital One Arena last summer, is investing another $15 million to make the arena more of a digital…

With their days of street beef well behind them, a group of millennials, many of whom will soon enter their 30s immersed in the career field of their choice, reflected on their former lives and where…

Next week, hundreds of prospective lawyers will sit down to take the D.C. bar exam. But while they do, hundreds more are still stuck in limbo, waiting on the D.C. Courts to give them permission to…

Three years after launching an expensive education experiment, the District is eliminating extended school years at 13 campuses after city leaders said there was scant evidence of improved academic…

WASHINGTON — Food insecurity — or the state of being without reliable access to affordable and nutritious food — affects nearly 40 million Americans, and can lead to a number of negative health…

Planet Word, the new language museum taking over D.C.’s historic Franklin School, will feature a talking tree.

The Washington jazz scene barely resembles Duke Ellington's day, but younger artists and smaller venues keep the legacy going.

If you’re a resident of the Washington, DC area, chances are you’ve been following the debate over late night Metro service – or have been affected by the cuts. In 2016, the Washington Metropolitan…

A new biography of Hope Ridings Miller looks at the journalist's life and legacy.