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“Wagner Opticians,” she said, answering her mobile phone with a crisp office voice.

DRASTIC SERVICE cuts are ahead for the D.C. area’s transit system as officials face a loss of roughly a tenth of the network’s current operating revenue. For a fuller grasp of the potential meltdown…

Landlords are fighting a legal battle against D.C.'s ban on eviction filings. A judge will eventually decide whether the moratorium violates their constitutional rights.

The former Kith and Kin chef will add Trinidadian flavor to the classic half-smoke

Miriam Perlacio lived in Ward 2 for 15 years, and remembers how much her neighbors supported her after she immigrated to this country from Peru. She spoke to DCist/WAMU as she was setting up a…

A lack of information from some D.C. residents who test positive for the novel coronavirus is hurting the city’s efforts to corral the virus’s spread, officials said Thursday.

D.C. is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and updating its data systems to prepare for the possible roll out of a coronavirus vaccine.

George Washington University has developed and is launching its own in-house COVID testing, but, it is only to available students and employees of the private university.

In 2016, public radio station manager J.J. Yore made repeated attempts to get rid of an employee he suspected was a serial sexual harasser. But the administrators he answered to recommended warnings…

Earlier this summer, demonstrators filled D.C.’s streets to protest the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other victims of police violence. The Trump administration sent in national law…

The D.C. Water and Sewage Authority is offering funds to help residents in the Riggs Park and Edgewood neighborhoods who experienced sewage overflow in their homes, as record-setting rainfall and…

The urgent phone calls, text messages and emails flooded Art Mola’s phone.

Sydney Miles heard an ominous swishing sound last Thursday in the basement of her childhood home, which she shares with her mother in Northeast Washington’s Edgewood neighborhood. Dim images of the…

The National Portrait Gallery officially reopens at 11:30 a.m. Friday after months of a pandemic shutdown.

Coronavirus upended just about any plans the D.C. area’s health systems took into 2020. And while the pandemic stalled construction across Greater Washington, it didn’t derail their projects entirely…

Financial help is being made available to D.C. homeowners who had sewage backups Sept. 10, when the city’s sewer system was overwhelmed by record rainfall in a short period of time.

JJ Yore, then the general manager of local public radio station WAMU, faced more than 100 of his employees at a tense companywide Zoom meeting in late July. The subject was a recent DCist…

It took less time for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to defeat Nazi Germany as supreme commander of the Allied armies in World War II than it did to design and construct the memorial to him that will be…

Hours before law enforcement forcibly cleared protesters from Lafayette Square in early June amid protests over the police killing of George Floyd, federal officials began to stockpile ammunition and…

Hours before federal police officers cleared a crowded park near the White House with smoke and tear gas on June 1, the lead military police officer in the Department of Defense for the D.C. region…