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For weeks, all Clarence Venable could talk about was his new job. After his own brushes with the law, the 40-year-old was elated to begin training last month to be a violence interrupter, tasked with…

The Brookland neighborhood in Northeast D.C., home to Catholic University, now boasts a newly constructed concrete bridge with new sidewalks, two-way bike lanes and a traffic signal.

Ruth McKey Harmon browsed through a snowflake ornament display, catching up with old friends as she passed dozens of booths with organic cotton sweaters, handmade earrings and “adult hot cocoa.”

The District is pledging to create an additional 20 miles of protected bike lanes in three years — a plan that would triple the number of miles of protected lanes citywide.

EIGHT MONTHS after Javed Bhutto was shot and killed — allegedly by a neighbor who had been discharged from St. Elizabeths Hospital after nearly 18 years of treatment for having killed someone else in…

It seems the Redskins are welcome to return to the RFK site, only District residents don’t want to pay for it. Sorry, that’s not how this works.

Trap yoga and a financial wellness workshop were among the events scheduled for DC's Department of Corrections women's empowerment event.

What started as the charitable acts of just a few friends over two decades ago has grown into a fully staffed operation that will feed thousands of families in the D.C. area this Thanksgiving.

Brandi Forte keeps the job posting brief.

A new nonprofit organization in Shaw will help connect local students to professional role models through video chats, seeking to help low-income families who don’t have access to technology outside…

The owners say they couldn't negotiate a lease extension and hope to relocate.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As WeWork tries to right its ship following its disastrous IPO attempt, it is opening several large, new spaces in the D.C. market that will add hundreds of thousands of square…

A project that will create the first affordable assisted-living facility in Ward 8 has begun construction.

When vaccination coverage drops below 95 percent, the chances of a disease outbreak are more likely.

Everyone in the 10th Place neighborhood in Southeast D.C. knew him as Tristan Sellers, or by his rap name, Slim Tristan. But to Andria Swanson, 30, the mother of Sellers’ 6-year-old son, King, he was…

Let’s face it. On the proverbial plane of economic development, the District of Columbia is in the middle seat fighting for elbow room with Maryland on one side and Virginia on the other. We have a…

Construction is set to begin Friday on a new assisted-living facility for low-income seniors, the first such development in Ward 8.

In 2008, when city leaders passed the Pre-K Enhancement and Expansion Amendment Act, the District started to build what became the first-ever universal prekindergarten program in the country and…

Janel Leppin’s music can sound like something out of a dream. The multi-instrumentalist uses cello and an ethereal voice to weave an uncanny atmosphere on her 2017 solo album American God, released…