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The federal government shutdown is having one collateral effect—it’s blowing a hole in the District’s latest effort to promote statehood for itself.

Perhaps one of the biggest policy no-brainers on its merits that apparently remains politically unfeasible is statehood for the District of Columbia, which has a population larger than Wyoming and…

Owners of hundreds of buildings across D.C. will soon be required to make investments to improve their energy performance under a sweeping new law.

The Rachel Whiteread sculpture show at the National Gallery of Art ended its four-month run this weekend, but because of the partial government shutdown, no one had been able to see the major survey…

The D.C. Council will resume its quest to limit noise in the city, a mission that led to an uproar from local musicians over the summer.

At dusk on a brisk Saturday afternoon in Washington, when the government shutdown has muted the Mall and scared away tourists, the capital’s recently unwrapped stretch of waterfront is a rare spot of…

When there's a significant snow, we can see where motor vehicles are driving on the roads because they push the snow aside. The spots where this doesn't happen shows us where there's extra pavement…

Residents near the intersection of 11th and C SE say that despite 160 signatures (many from customers of the adjacent dry cleaner) opposing the installation pictured above, DDOT brushed aside their…

This spring, construction is expected to begin on a 60-unit affordable senior building as part of the redevelopment of Ward 7's Meadow Green Courts Apartments. Now, a much larger plan is in the works…

Coffee table books often feature photos of wild, pristine places. But there’s a new coffee table book dedicated to a landscape closer to home — one often not associated with natural beauty. Local…

Get free food, apply for utility assistance, help your struggling neighbors, exercise, clean your closets, volunteer, shout your anger into a phone.

Every day after school, children impatiently wait their turn to enter the homework help room at Horton’s Kids Community Resource Center. As they fidget in line, they can’t help but notice the high…

The District does not want you to see police body camera footage of a 2017 traffic stop and arrest of Councilmember Trayon White.

WASHINGTON — Some people get excited when they wake up to a fresh blanket of snow. They dream of making snow angels, building snowmen or even just watching the flakes fall from the warmth of their…

The concourse at Washington’s Union Station will undergo a makeover beginning in the fall, a project that will double its capacity, relieve crowding and make for a more accessible and comfortable…

Stewart L. Udall was from the American West. Perhaps that is why he had such affection for clear, wide-open spaces. What he did not like was clutter. And after coming to Washington as a congressman…

They don’t know yet what they will say or whether they will use any data to back up their points. But someday soon, three teenage girls will stand in front of an administrator at their D.C. school and…

Shortly before she graduated from Yale Law School in 1951, Patricia Wald secured a job interview with a white-shoe Manhattan firm. The hiring partner was impressed with her credentials — she was one…

Lewis D. Ferebee, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s nominee for D.C. Public Schools chancellor, came to town last week to call on the council members charged with his confirmation. He left the John A. Wilson…

I was standing at the cash register at my grocery co-op on Wednesday night, ready to pay for my bananas and graham crackers, when dread gripped me. My wallet. It was gone. And I could only have left…