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As Democrats look for ways to overhaul the political system, statehood advocates in the nation's capital see opportunity.

Happy Monday. A new pro-statehood coalition, “51 for 51,” will kick off tomorrow to press statehood as an issue during the Democratic presidential primary.

Shawn Townsend steps into the 'nightlife mayor' role just as the city turns up the volume on cultural preservation.

After years of waiting — and then a few more years of waiting — Ward 7 looks to have a bona fide grocery anchor for the long-planned Skyland Town Center project: German grocery chain Lidl.

As D.C. representatives attend the ICSC Retail Conference in Las Vegas, big grocery store news came for Ward 7: the city's first Lidl will open at Skyland Town Center.

D.C. officials are so desperate for more solutions to the city’s parking and traffic problems that they’re considering recruiting citizens to help enforce the rules of the road.

As Sunday’s temperatures rose and the sun beamed down, thousands of people grabbed their yoga mats and took to the Lincoln Memorial for Yoga on the Mall.

The Library of Congress will show a penciled draft of the poet’s luminous “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.”

A car crash left behind a trail of destruction Saturday in Northeast Washington, including damage to a memorial honoring a cyclist who died weeks earlier at the same location.

A memorial for a bicyclist struck and killed by a stolen van in Northeast D.C. last month was damaged in a crash early Saturday morning.

Residents of a northwest D.C. community stopped by Stoddert Elementary on Saturday for updates on how transportation safety will be improved in their area, and to weigh in on draft recommendations that are part of the Rock Creek Far West…

The fourth annual D.C. Bike Ride shut down 20 miles of city streets so cyclists could take in views of the District on routes that would usually be thronged with cars.

If Astra Armstrong’s life were a play, the opening scene would show an elementary school playground in Southeast Washington in the middle of the night. There, a basketball hoop without a net would sit near a slide and a set of monkey bars.…

More than 50 people gathered Saturday at a church in Southeast Washington to learn how to press the search for the missing.

“I want people to look at me and say, ‘She did it, I can do it.’

Washington Nationals players fanned out across the city Saturday, stepping onto baseball diamonds from Southeast to Northwest D.C. to connect with the game’s youngest players. The Nats visited nine ball fields, handing out Nats ball caps,…

How Soon Would D.C. Implement School Desegregation?

Thousands of children in the nation’s capital were sent to Junior Village between 1958 and 1973.

Averaging out the top 100 largest cities in America, a one bedroom rents for under $1,400 a month — up a modest 4.3% in the last year. But that’s a minor increase compared to what some D.C. neighborhoods have seen.

A new pedestrian and cyclist bridge would fill a gap in access between the Arboretum and the Anacostia Waterfront