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On the coldest day of this year's winter, with wind chills ranging from -5 to -15 degrees, the District is seeing a significant spike in demand for its homeless services.

The development pipeline along Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue continues to grow.

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — The District’s Cold Emergency Plan is now activated, with frigid weather taking hold of much of the region on Sunday night.

Upshur Street Books, which opened in November 2014, is transitioning to a new owner and a new bookstore concept. Hannah Oliver Depp, who has been working as the managing partner of Upshur Street Books, is taking full ownership of the store…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) begins her second term in office with an unquestioned mandate from voters and a widely lauded vision for a city whose prosperity could finally be shared across barriers of race, class and neighborhood.

During Restaurant Week, restaurants in the Washington region offer steep discounts on meals to attract customers during the winter slump. The promotion usually lasts — you guessed it — a week, and this year’s was supposed to end this past…

Allison McGill says it is as much about morale as it is about need. The Hill resident is organizing free carry-out meals for workers affected by the federal shutdown, to be distributed Jan. 24th. Federal employees and contractors are…

If President Trump’s election revived the protest movement on the left, the D.C. Labor Chorus is providing the soundtrack.

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In these times, The Guardian newspaper has something called a wealth correspondent, and it has dug up a scoop about our very own Dan Synder.

DC’s Woodrow Wilson High School stands on the edge of what used to be a thriving black middle class neighborhood, before it was systematically dismantled by the actions of white supremacists including… President Woodrow Wilson.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is urging the Trump administration to reconsider its refusal to make unemployment insurance available to federal workers who are still on the job amid the shutdown, yet missed their last paycheck and could miss…

WASHINGTON — The D.C. Department of Human Services is asking residents to be on the lookout for homeless neighbors and those in need of help as temperatures drop to dangerous levels Sunday evening. 

A few blocks down the street from the White House, two dated 1970s office buildings are being combined and renovated into a space that will cut energy use and emissions by more than half. Soon, around half of the existing buildings in the…

About this time last year, a Snapchat post landed George Washington University in national headlines.

Established in 1839, the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church has stood as a spiritual beacon in the nation’s capital for nearly two centuries. On the eve of his first inauguration, ladies and gentlemen dressed in fur and wool waited in a long…

Sweeping changes to campaign-finance regulations in the nation’s capital are on track to become law after Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) opted not to veto legislation passed by the D.C. Council.

Federal investigators criticized D.C.'s fire chief for denying access to a senior citizen apartment complex after a devastating fire ripped through the building near Navy Yard in Southeast in September.

In a signal of her disapproval, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has opted to leave unsigned a bill that prohibits homeowners from renting out, on a short-term basis, homes other than their primary residences. The legislation, which the D.C.…

Last year, homicides in the District were up 38 percent. There were 160, compared with fewer than 90 in 2012. Yet violent crime overall has been declining year after year. Last year, assault with a dangerous weapon was down 10 percent. The…

Democracy depends on transparency in its public institutions. To ensure that the needs of all people are served, residents and public officials must have the right to inquire and criticize. There is no institution for which this is truer…