Anacostia

After two men worked together to paint a crosswalk on a Southeast D.C. street, a District Department of Transportation spokesperson issued a statement saying the agency “will be investigating the location to see if additional markings,…

The rising popularity of accessory dwelling units can be seen all across DC.

D.C. residents gathered together yet again this week at the site of car crash fatality—this time, at the corner of V and 16 streets Southeast to remember Abdul Seck.

A vigil in D.C.’s Anacostia neighborhood Wednesday night honored Abdul Seck, a pedestrian who was killed in a crash on Easter Sunday. It’s the second vigil in a week in which people mourned life lost through car accidents on D.C. roads.

Chipotle Mexican Grill is opening a restaurant in Anacostia, nearly 26 years after the chain’s founding.

A car crash in Southeast on Sunday killed a pedestrian and injured five others, including two juveniles. A 21-year-old D.C. resident has been charged with second-degree murder in the incident.

A pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle involved in a crash Sunday afternoon in Southeast Washington’s Anacostia neighborhood has died from his injuries, according to D.C. police.

WASHINGTON — Six people including a pedestrian were injured after witnesses say a driver ran a stop sign in the Anacostia neighborhood of Southeast Washington Sunday afternoon.

The eggs, she knew from school, symbolized “new life.” But as she waited to hunt them, 8-year-old Dakota Young had other things in mind.

Developments in D.C. have already begun to utilize opportunity zone investments, but the money is expected to begin flowing into projects at a faster rate after the federal government released a second set of regulations Wednesday for the…

Restaurateur Andy Shallal confirms interest in Skyland

Go-go, D.C.’s special brand of funk, got fresh attention when a Shaw business was recently told to turn off the music it played on outdoor speakers for 24 years.

Last month the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum closed on short notice for seven months of renovations. Now, its curators are disassembling its locally focused main exhibition into six parts and installing them in libraries around…

Philip Pannell, one of Ward 8’s most effective political and civic activists, raised eyebrows at a recent meeting when he said that the number of development projects and new residents coming to Anacostia will turn the Southeast…

A beloved Anacostia restaurant closed its doors on Friday. It was one of only a few sit-down restaurants in Ward 8.

After four years in Anacostia, Cheers @ The Big Chair café will close Friday, eliminating one of a handful of sit-down restaurants in the historically African-American community.

Owner Dionne Reeder says she wasn't able to negotiate a new lease.

Hundreds of revelers, including many of D.C.’s political and cultural elite, celebrated the grand opening of the region’s seventh Busboys and Poets on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE during a red-carpet extravaganza.