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Drag queens in pumps, platforms and stilettos will race down a Dupont Circle street later this month as they have for the past 32 years with one marked change — the District’s annual High Heel Race…

According to a U.N. report released Monday, the future of the planet looks dire. Tens of millions of people flooded by sea level rise, hundreds of millions suffering through severe droughts. Mass…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday opened the second homeless shelter to replace the dilapidated facility at the former D.C. General Hospital campus — part of her campaign promise to close D.C.…

The D.C. block where NASA’s headquarters is located is poised to be symbolically named “Hidden Figures Way” in the coming months thanks to a unanimously supported effort by District elected officials…

If Taylor Swift has inspired you to register to vote, the time is nigh in the District. The main deadline for registering to cast a ballot in the general election scheduled for Nov. 6 is next Tuesday,…

The District would adopt one of the nation’s most aggressive plans to cut carbon emissions, aiming to use entirely renewable sources of energy for the city’s power grid just 14 years from now, under…

A D.C. Council committee is scheduled to hear public testimony on Wednesday about the plan to end acute-care services at Providence Hospital in northeast Washington, and how the closure will affect…

DC's Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) is designed to help tenants in multi-family apartment building stay put if their landlord decides to sell the property. So why is TOPA not working for…

This spring, UrbanTurf reported on plans in the works for a residential building on the Masonic Temple-owned lot at 15th Street and S Street NW (map). Now, we're getting our first look at the by-right…

Anders Pedersen, aka @DCSpokes, is the Batman of bike lanes. Pedersen and a slew of other District cyclists have taken it upon themselves to photograph, Tweet, report and talk to drivers who block…

WASHINGTON — Metro does not plan to raise fares next year, but it also does not necessarily plan to increase service, even as it hopes riders come flooding back to the system. Under previous practice,…

On a recent morning in the empty dining room of Equinox Restaurant, co-owner Ellen Kassoff Gray and her managers were sipping coffee and hashing out a plan of action in case protesters were to…

A new subsidy program in D.C. would give recipients a flat payment to help them make rent–and use the leftover money for whatever else they need.

Tenants could be spared from larger-than-expected rent increases under new legislation the DC Council is considering. Councilmember Anita Bonds (D-At Large) introduced a pair of bills that would…

The nation’s capital has been breeding progressive voters for so long that when real Republicans turn up on a ballot, social and fiscal conservatives think RINO and Democrats look for candidates who…

A recreational mapmaker has received a grant from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities to compile a meticulous anthology of all the tunnels in the District — subway and freight rail tunnels,…

A former top aide to D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has agreed to pay $3,000 to settle an ethics investigation into her use of government staff for babysitting. Former deputy mayor Courtney Snowden,…

It costs only a few dollars to ride Metro’s trains or buses, but it can cost up to $300 and 10 days of jail time to do so without paying the proper fare. Those penalties may soon change. Last week,…

What began in 1986 as a group of drag queens making a spontaneous drunken sprint between a bar and a steakhouse has become one of the District's most iconic community events. And starting this year,…

Roughly 20,000 low-income D.C. residents are not taking advantage of a tax credit that could reap them thousands of dollars every year. It’s called the Earned Income Tax Credit, and many people don’t…