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The D.C. government activated its Heat Emergency Plan this week as the heat index reached as high as 105 degrees in some parts of Washington between June 27 and 30. Despite publicly advertised…

A construction worker has been rescued after being trapped for about an hour and a half in the collapse of a building under construction Thursday afternoon in Northwest D.C.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Five workers were injured Thursday when a building under construction collapsed in the nation’s capital, trapping one man for more than an hour as firefighters worked feverishly to…

The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB), an agency charged with setting funding and project priorities for Greater Washington’s transportation sector, voted last month to…

The District’s only general hospital east of the Anacostia River faces major spending cuts — a decision both employees and patients say feels like a betrayal.

Members of the Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH) shelter capacity working group met June 23 to discuss last winter’s shelter numbers and plan bed-capacity recommendations for this winter’s…

The Anacostia Community Museum's new outdoor exhibition highlights 12 local changemakers who work on nutrition, health, and food justice.

He'll pay $2,000 a month for the next two years.

D.C.’s Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration (ABRA) found ­Nellie’s Sports Bar in violation of District code and referred its findings to the Office of the Attorney General following an…

The Metro Transit Police Department didn’t investigate or properly document thousands of crimes committed on the transit system between 2010 and 2017, according to a report published Thursday by…

Metro’s watchdog agency on Thursday released a report accusing Metro Transit Police of failing to investigate thousands of claims of criminal offenses, including robberies, sexual offenses,…

It was a sentence that went viral, spoken by then-First Lady Michelle Obama and quickly shared across the internet, as many political sound bites have done before. But this one was shadowed by a deep…

It may take a lot of money and legal maneuvering, but D.C. officials are moving to finally get the Capitol Gateway Marketplace project back on track after Walmart’s infamous decision to spurn the…

With the pandemic lockdown over and masks being discarded, the District is once again inviting partyers to celebrate an old ritual — a Fourth of July on the National Mall.

A five-story building under construction in Northwest Washington collapsed amid a heavy storm Thursday afternoon, trapping one person in the rubble for about 90 minutes and sending four others to…

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is playing its eminent domain card to take over three properties on 28th Street NE near its Bladensburg bus facility, according to documents filed…

The D.C. Council voted Tuesday to ban the sale of all flavored tobacco products — including fruity e-cigarette liquids, candy-tinged cigars and menthol cigarettes — entering a thicket of racially…

Parris Weaver-DuBose was walking Marble, her French bulldog, when she ran into a community leader who asked whether she had any concerns about their neighborhood, a predominantly Black enclave on…

After a security guard at Nellie’s Sports Bar dragged a Black woman down a flight of stairs during Pride week, the bar is now at risk of facing fines or losing its liquor license – the latter…

The Capital Turnaround's Navy Yard space will soon host live entertainment, comedy, music, and more.