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D.C.’s hotels saw lower occupancy and average room rates in 2018 than the previous year, and hotel performance in the city and the region for 2019 so far isn’t looking much more promising, according to data presented at Destination D.C.’s…

When D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis Ferebee appeared on the Kojo Nnamdi Show last week, a teacher from Stanton Elementary School in Ward 8 called in to ask about the whereabouts of a $200 gift card for school supplies with mere days…

The Klingle Valley Trail shuts down September 3

“Juana loves many things: drawing, eating Brussels sprouts, and living in Bogotá, Colombia. Most of all she loves her dog, Lucas, the best amigo ever.”

A new, nine-story multifamily development just got started in Brookland, but some residents of the Northeast D.C. neighborhood are already voicing opposition.

A police officer flagged illegal conditions in a Brightwood rental about five months before a fire killed two occupants, city officials confirm to DCist. The officer informed the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, which manages…

More high school students are playing more sports in the District, even as sports participation rates stagnate elsewhere in much of the region and nationwide.

The metro area ranks 52 out of 58 for ease of new development

The day before the Fourth of July, the owners of Capitol Hill Books did something they always do: They tweeted something sarcastic. The difference between this tweet and their previous 8,000 was that this one went viral.

"If you're not a skinny white woman or a white gay dude with a six-pack, the fitness space on this boutique level does not speak to you."

As students around the region head back to school this week and next, some public schools are now allowing them to register as nonbinary.

Dust off your tote bag, find your special autograph pen and bust out your most durable bookmarks. It’s National Book Festival time.

One of the District’s most dangerous stretches of roadway for pedestrians and cyclists — Florida Avenue, Northeast — has new safety improvements in place.

A D.C. police officer notified two city agencies that a rowhouse appeared to be illegally rented months before two tenants died in a fire, but his warnings of “life safety violations” went largely unheeded, the city administrator said…

A man in a U.S. Postal Service uniform leans against a brick wall at 14th and U Streets NW. He’s playing a tenor saxophone, with his mailbag resting at his feet. He’s also nine stories tall.

Before the house fire that killed a 9-year-old boy and a man earlier this month, at least three D.C. agencies knew of dangerous conditions inside the row house that was illegally divided into tiny apartments.

THE NUMBERS are alarming enough. The District last year had an all-time high of 204 hate crimes, accounting for the highest per capita hate-crime rate of any major city in the country. Peel back the numbers, and the details are equally…

Ward 6 resident Mary Stevens says that she hears at least four helicopters flying near her home every day. “It’s like clockwork,” she says. Allison Bishop, who lives four doors down from her, adds that she thinks the helicopters have…

While better known for his role as a tight end for Washington's NFL team, Vernon Davis is trying out a new set of skills he hopes will leave a more enduring mark on the District's Bloomingdale neighborhood: real estate development.

With the ninth year in a row of record-breaking numbers, overall tourism to D.C. isn’t slowing down—though the number of international visitors, particularly those from China, did fall last year.