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The Potomac was once so polluted that bright green mats of algae would blanket the water each summer (“an open sewer calling itself a river,” according to the New York Times); the Anacostia was so toxic that one study found two-thirds of…

The one-acre site is located at North Capitol Street and N Street NE

“IT’S UNCLEAR whether or not the 11-year-old was the intended target. It’s unimaginable that an 11-year-old would ever be an intended target, but we have not ruled that out at this point.” That was D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham on Monday…

D.C. officials called on the public’s help in removing illegal guns from the streets on Monday, blaming illegal guns and weak penalties for gun infractions after a weekend of homicides.

Sure, it was crowded and nearly record-settingly hot. But “Apollo 50: Go for the Moon” captured the city’s (and the nation’s) attention in a manner that hasn’t been seen in quite a long time.

First came the encyclical — a letter penned by Pope Francis in 2015 “on care for our common home.” For Catholics, it became a call to combat climate change, which many local faith organizations are taking to heart.

The upscale grocery store, Dean & DeLuca, which opened its doors in 1993 at 3276 M St. NW, is slowly dying, as inventory dwindles and services contract.

Earlier this month, presidential candidate Kamala Harris unveiled her proposal to address the racial wealth gap within housing inequities, which would offer homebuying assistance to residents in formerly-redlined communities.

When Ronnie Jackson’s landlord put his building up for sale more than a decade ago, he said that he and other residents felt like they were kept in the dark about what would happen next.

Eight people have been killed during a spate of violence in the District in recent days, prompting outrage and concern from city leaders.

Planet Word is expected to open at the historic Franklin School building in 2020

Happy Monday. At the mayor's press conference today on crime, a reporter counted seven murders in four days — a grim tally that recalls the violence of the 1990s and early 2000s.

Developer talks about his role in gentrification and the new way of doing business in DC.

Half a dozen people have died as a result of crashes in Ward 8 this year

THE LATEST controversy over the District’s award of a lucrative sole-source contract is achingly unsurprising. D.C. has established a procurement system that is steeped in politics and parochialism, with the checkered history to show for…

An ode to the watering hole where Spotteds and the power lunch came to be

Every other weekend, it was the same routine for Lisa Smith, who shares custody of her two teenage sons with their father.

Developer Douglas Jemal made a commitment more than a decade ago that mollified the District’s crowd of historic preservationists, who were all atwitter that a new office building would require the demolition of what they deemed an…

Right now, it’s a large, empty field. But by next year, the five-acre plot in Northeast Washington will sprout about 5,000 solar panels, the largest ground array the nation’s capital has seen — a change wrought by local Catholic groups.

As the region has been flirting with almost record-breaking heat, a crowd gathered at in Navy Yard to help set a different kind of record — D.C.’s longest sundae ever.