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The Monsanto agricultural products company has agreed to pay $52 million to the District over the company’s alleged role in the contamination of the Potomac River and other local waterways for nearly 50 years during the 20th century, the…

D.C. MAYOR Muriel E. Bowser (D) presented the D.C. Council with a sound spending plan to deal with the loss of revenue and continuing fiscal uncertainties caused by the pandemic. She canceled pay raises for city workers but avoided…

D.C. officials have long been urging that residents wear face coverings to help stop the spread of COVID-19, but now the local ACLU chapter is asking that they require the same of police officers.

A Capitol Hill woman canceled her vacation because she couldn’t get timely proof she wasn’t infectious. A biologist from Charlottesville threw caution to the wind and visited his elderly parents anyway. A young D.C. man, exposed to a sick…

After some uncertainty, the Washington Nationals will begin their 2020 season at Nationals Park, after all.

Washington NFL owner Dan Snyder said Friday he’s committed to improving the culture inside the team after allegations of sexual harassment, while the league will wait for a law firm’s review before taking action.

Though Arena Stage closed its doors in March, artistic director Molly Smith has been hustling. During lockdown, her team has completed two films, started virtual salon chats, hosted social-issue talks with political scholars on Zoom, and…

The Washington Nationals will play this season at Nationals Park in Washington after the city approved a tweak to its coronavirus regulations for the team. Doubt arose because of D.C.'s strict quarantine rules, and the Nationals had…

Two years after plans were first announced to redevelop the site of the WTTG Fox 5 television headquarters on Wisconsin Avenue (and 1.5 years after conceptual renderings were shared), the site has a new developer and a new proposal.

With no fans allowed inside Nats Park when season starts later this month, a lucky few fans who live near the D.C. ballpark can still watch home games from outside the stadium, and two more residential buildings with direct ballpark views…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) recently posted on social media, “Our power is in peace, in our voices, and in the ballot box.”

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has named Howard University architecture professor and sketch artist Brad Grant as its first-ever Instagram artist-in-residence.

One million books. Vast rows of public computers. Six stories of D.C. history, movies and games, art supplies and power tools and music, all of it free to browse and borrow.

Janeese Lewis George, the Ward 4 Democratic nominee for the council, counted among a bevy of voices who decried the legislative body’s recent vote to extend the District’s currently existing rent control laws without expanding and…

The Nationals and the District of Columbia are engaged in something of a standoff, the team trying to convince local authorities to grant an exception of its strict COVID-19 quarantine rules and suggesting it may move games away from…

When the pandemic caused hospitals in New York and elsewhere to stop performing heart transplants, donated hearts were diverted elsewhere, which led to record numbers of transplants in D.C.

More than a dozen women allege sexual harassment and verbal abuse by former team employees at Redskins Park

The Washington Nationals are unsure whether they will begin this season playing at Nationals Park because of municipal coronavirus protocols, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation, and the team is actively exploring…