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In April, millions of Americans began receiving economic stimulus checks to help them weather the financial crisis caused by the coronavirus. But some 12 million who are eligible — including as many…

The toppling of statues may have reached its tipping point.

As of January, thousands of District residents who are incarcerated in federal prisons on felony convictions would have their rights to vote restored under legislation the D.C. Council is slated to…

The D.C. attorney general sued four of the world’s largest oil and gas companies Thursday, asserting that they have engaged in a multimillion-dollar campaign over decades to deceive District…

Franklin Park, located at 14th Street and K St NW, will close for a year on July 1 and undergo an ambitious renovation.

MIDWAY THROUGH construction of the Washington Nationals’ ballpark, Allen Y. Lew, who oversaw the project as head of the city’s sports and entertainment commission, took the media on a tour. Veteran…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser urged residents and visitors to the nation’s capital to stay home this Independence Day during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Feel free to enjoy the fireworks on the Fourth of July, but plan on watching from home in small groups only, Mayor Muriel Bowser urged residents today. She expressed concern about the coronavirus…

While DC has earned a reputation for being tenant-friendly, and large property owners enjoy membership in influential organizations, a new group wants to look out for the little guy.

The 28th annual The 28th annual RAMMY Awards, the Oscars for local restaurant owners and chefs, has been rescheduled for Sept. 20 — and it will be different.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is suing fossil fuel companies Exxon Mobil, BP, Chevron and Shell “for systematically and intentionally misleading District consumers about the role their products…

On June 5, as mass protests demanding racial justice continued in the D.C. area, the Joy of Motion Dance Center, a local arts nonprofit that serves thousands of students, posted a Black Lives Matter…

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser raised concerns Thursday about the continuing spread of the coronavirus, and discouraged large gatherings for the upcoming July 4 holiday.

Calls are intensifying for the removal of twin Emancipation memorials in Washington, D.C., and Boston that depict a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln’s feet — optics that jar and offend many in…

A few blocks from my house stands a bronze monument to Abraham Lincoln, flanked by trees in a bustling park. But a vocal few — armed with bullhorns and invective — now threaten to forcibly topple it…

A new study suggests we could be near the bottom.

Ceaira Richardson recited the challenges that make life in her Southeast D.C. neighborhood difficult.

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine filed a lawsuit against gun manufacturer Polymer80 Inc., which sells untraceable partially-assembled semi-automatic rifles and handguns, for advertising and…

Rigid rules and policies hide the bad behavior of D.C. cops from the people they're paid to protect.

With multiple deaths related to COVID-19 occurring in an 18-unit public housing building, tenants clean and care for their own building.