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Georgetown University saw its largest single-day spike in COVID-19 cases, with 34 members of the community testing positive, school health officials said Wednesday.

The Anacostia River has a trash problem; in fact it’s one of the few rivers in the U.S. that is officially considered impaired by trash by the Environmental Protection Agency, which implemented a “trash diet” on the river more than a…

Right now, all across the land, there are babies in desperate need of changing. Each one is sitting uncomfortably in a contraption that is a marvel of modern engineering but is, ultimately, no match for a baby’s, um, output.

“The car just came almost drifting around the corner so fast that my mind couldn’t process exactly what was happening.” That was 9-year-old Peter Dziekan, describing being hit by a car while riding his bicycle home from his Northeast D.C.…

There’s a new leader in place for D.C.’s New Communities Initiative, a roughly 20-year-long effort to redevelop four aging public housing complexes, giving yet another official a chance to lead the troubled program as its projects near key…

“If it so happens that we bankrupt them, then that’s a good day when hate is dispatched and eliminated,” Racine said.

By 2026, the D.C. Streetcar could extend out to the Benning Road Metro stop, part of a new construction and rehabilitation project. Once complete, it would add five new Streetcar stops, improve intersections, and upgrade bridges, among a…

The National Museum of Women in the Arts is currently closed for a $66 million renovation with plans to reopen in the fall of 2023. In the meantime, the downtown D.C. museum plans to display public art installations on its façade.

Fannie Mae's old headquarters is getting ready to spring back to life with a new neighborhood rising around it.

The issue at hand is what to rename Woodrow Wilson High School, the comprehensive high school in Northwest Washington that has long carried the name of a two-term president who moved into the White House more than a century ago and was an…

The inviting idea of "a living downtown" is not new in the District, with the phrase a mantra of long-ago revitalization efforts in Penn Quarter as well as zoning proceedings in the late 1980s and early ’90s. Now the pandemic is helping…

Congress passed a bill on Tuesday that will allow the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police to “unilaterally” request assistance from the D.C. National Guard, after it took hours for officials to deploy troops to the Capitol during the Jan. 6…

Congress on Tuesday passed legislation granting the Capitol Police chief power to “unilaterally” request emergency backup from the National Guard and federal law enforcement agencies, after lawmakers said the lack of authority had caused…

While the road to an extension of the DC streetcar has not been smooth, the project may get back on track next year.

The 25 balconies adorning the historic Kenesaw/Renaissance apartments in Mount Pleasant are certainly elegant. But should residents have to pay $1.5 million to restore them?

The D.C. streetcar extension to the Benning Road Metro station would open in 2026 for service under current plans, DDOT officials said Tuesday.

Advocates for bicycling worry the city is not living up to Mayor Muriel Bowser’s goal to add 10 miles of new protected bicycle lanes each year.