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It sounds like an urgent call to action. “We have 10 years to get control of climate change,” reads one Facebook ad. “We must act now — and act boldly — to achieve that sustainable vision.”

Since March of this year, 16-year-old Tiffany Missembe has been devoting time each week to what she calls her part-time job: getting D.C. to lower its voting age to 16.

Inmates at a jail at the District's Department of Corrections facility in Southeast Washington have been struggling with low water pressure since at least Monday, according to city officials.

The D.C. Council is expected to give preliminary approval to legislation Tuesday that would lower the voting age to 16, clearing the way for the nation’s capital to become the first jurisdiction in the nation to allow minors to cast ballots…

As the District reinvigorates its Vision Zero initiative to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2024, a group of traffic-safety advocates will host a memorial walk downtown on Nov. 15, in memory of the 10 pedestrians whom…

Plans for the upcoming 11th Street Bridge Park are impressive, but people need to show up.

The District’s public school system is slated to become among the first in the nation to let families select “non-binary” — rather than male or female — when indicating the gender of their child on enrollment forms.

WASHINGTON — The District Department of Transportation’s new rules for dockless bikes and scooters starting in 2019 have ruffled Bird’s features.

Hundreds of graduate students at Georgetown University have spoken: they overwhelmingly want to unionize.

The graduation numbers for the last school year in D.C. are finally in, and they don’t look great — for black and Latino students in D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) in particular.

Every week, John Uselton leads tours of New Columbia Distillers in Ivy City, where he tells patrons all about the whiskey they’re making there. People tend to be confused—isn’t New Columbia all about gin, the Green Hat sold in those tall…

A hundred years after Armistice Day, there is still no national memorial to World War I in the U.S. capital.

The tiny downtown D.C. lunch counter C.F. Folks was proof that a decent lunch didn’t have to be an expense-account steak or a fast-casual, build-your-own-bowl endeavor. But the 37-year-old restaurant abruptly closed on Friday after a…

WASHINGTON — One day before the full D.C. Council considers lowering the city’s voting age from 18 to 16, the main lawmaker behind the effort is expressing strong optimism that his bill will soon be law.

The payments from Mayor Muriel Bowser's campaign to Kimberly Lockett started just before the primary election.

Shot dead at 14, Steve Slaughter fell victim to the scourge of everyday gun violence

As temperatures in D.C. drop to dangerously cold levels for the unhoused, the District plans to unveil another homeless shelter for families on Tuesday—one of several replacements for D.C. General, the decaying megashelter that Mayor Muriel…

The Post could once make a local candidate's day. Not so much this year.

Close to 100 people, including LGBT veterans and active duty LGBT service members, assembled at the gravesite of gay Air Force Sgt. Leonard Matlovich in D.C.’s Congressional Cemetery on Sunday to pay tribute to LGBT veterans.

The market accommodated their whims and needs for more than 40 years, so when neighbors heard rising rent was driving the shop to close, they did what they could to help: Letter-writing campaigns, petitions and a protest. More than 1,400…