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Although Mayor Muriel Bowser’s 2020 budget increases spending on public education, schools in wards 7 and 8 are set to see significant drops in funding, according to a recent report from the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.

Imagine jogging down the Rock Creek Park Trail and after the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge, instead of a thicket of trees obscuring your view of the C&O Canal, there is a vista of the locks from a new platform over the confluence of the…

“Lightweave” debuts next week as part of broader public space efforts in the booming neighborhood

It’s official—the Funk Parade is coming back to U Street on May 11, helmed by new leadership and under the banner of the 2019 theme “Keepin’ The Funk Alive.”

On a sunny spring day at the National Arboretum, Daniel Herrera is crawling on all fours.

The popular Union Market food hall in Northeast D.C. has drawn a host of new restaurants to the surrounding area over the last year, and developers hope it will soon attract hundreds of new apartment renters to the neighborhood.

Throughout my time as a cook, an entrepreneur and a nonprofit founder, I have been reminded time and again, from the District to Puerto Rico, of the incredible power of food to bring people together.

“A lot of people realize who Nipsey was after he died but for us , we’ve been on Nipsey since day one.”

Gjerde also leads A Rake's Progress in D.C. and Woodberry Kitchen in Baltimore.

TGIF! The Bowser administration has mismanaged another federal grant, this time missing a deadline to reapply for millions of dollars that fund education and literacy programs. The money would have funded staffers at the nonprofits Reading…

In February 1944 Clara Mays, an African American federal government employee, purchased a three-story rowhouse in the Bloomingdale neighborhood, just north of Florida Avenue, close to Howard University.

We dug into new data from the 2019-2020 D.C. Public Schools lottery to see which schools had the most competition for seats – and which didn't have any seats open at all.

At a first of its kind meeting Tuesday night, current and former leaders of D.C.’s Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, Log Cabin Republicans of D.C., and the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance discussed what they said were common ground…

The D.C. government introduced a mammoth project on Thursday evening: The city’s first-ever Cultural Plan. The 224-page document describes the Washington’s cultural community in detail, and lays out a plan for growing it through…

The exhibit features more than 125 architectural objects depicting animals and opens on April 20

A missed deadline could end up costing D.C. millions of dollars in federal funding for programs that help low-income communities.

Roadside Development is shifting its main office from Downtown D.C. to upper Northwest, and it hopes other companies will follow suit.

In his March 30 op-ed, “Is D.C. headed for a ’90s-style crisis?,” Colbert I. King scrutinized D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s (D) fiscal 2020 proposed budget and questioned sustainability in an uncertain future. The budget should also be…

For local authors, discovering that their book is in the D.C. Public Library’s collection can be a thrilling moment.

The District government failed to reapply for millions in federal AmeriCorps dollars, jeopardizing the future of several programs that help children improve their reading skills and support teachers in troubled city schools.