Congress Heights

In her proposed 2020 budget, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) addresses what she says is the city’s No. 1 issue: affordable housing. I agree. Lawmakers should be working overtime to create and preserve affordable housing so that our…

When the children at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary in Southeast Washington left school on Friday, they had no idea what would happen there before their return on Monday.

At the corner of Malcolm X Avenue and Martin Luther King Avenue in Congress Heights sits a federal park that’s known mostly to people who live in the area. Officially known to the National Park Service as Shepherd Park, residents have long…

Three years after the idea of a community land trust was floated by the group behind the 11th Street Bridge Park, the trust could be close to making its first land buys.

A D.C. man was arrested and charged with felony dog fighting after authorities found 12 dogs and a five-foot-long alligator at his home in Southeast.

Nikki Peele, the writer behind one of D.C.'s longest-running and most notable blogs, Congress Heights on the Rise, has some news: She's moving out of the neighborhood she's called home for more than a decade.

Today, UrbanTurf catches up with the residential pipeline in two East of the River neighborhoods that have received a lot of attention lately: Deanwood and Congress Heights. Deanwood has recently earned a reputation for being hot among…

The basketball games haven’t begun, the concerts have yet to be played, but District resident Latreasa Woodson already was excited about what the opening of the Entertainment and Sports Arena holds for Ward 8. “I think it is great for the…