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The smell of cooked turkeys filled the air in D.C.’s Cleveland Park neighborhood Thursday, but the aroma symbolic of Thanksgiving came not from home kitchens but from a tent at the Connecticut Avenue location of Medium Rare.

The turkey and pumpkin pie have been gobbled up, and your focus has shifted to that holiday shopping list. Before grabbing your phone and loading up your online shopping cart or heading for the big-box retailer, D.C.-area small businesses…

Federal dollars are used to purchase vehicles, fund training that helps individuals move around the D.C. region

Just after 7 a.m., dozens of volunteers lined up around a metal table at the center of the Food & Friends facility in Northeast Washington, ready to start packing food and delivering it to hundreds of families on Thanksgiving Day.

Many people use Thanksgiving to gorge on gravy-soaked turkey, mashed potatoes and pecan pie, then to nap during a Cowboys game.

Food & Friends, a D.C.-based nonprofit, has made around 800 turkeys for families facing serious illness this Thanksgiving, with volunteers feeding more than 4,000 people.

After decades of efforts, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Tuesday that cleanup at the site in Northwest D.C. along Glenbrook Road, where World War I chemical weapons were tested and disposed of, is complete.

Did you know there isn’t a librarian in all schools in the District? If passed, the Student’s Right to Read Amendment Act of 2021 would change that.

On a late September afternoon, Reggie Van Lee — management guru, arts philanthropist and new chairman of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities — sat on a folding chair in the back of a school auditorium in Congress Heights,…

A welcome center wouldn’t be very welcoming if it didn’t welcome people with all sorts of needs. And all sorts of needs are what await Maisha Pinkard every day.

The Downtown D.C. Business Improvement District confirmed that its board voted Tuesday to place its chief, Neil Albert, on indefinite administrative leave as the fallout continues from a series of news articles alleging he committed ethics…

The bill would ensure a full-time librarian in every DCPS school.

A D.C. Superior Court judge has again extended the period for bringing criminal cases to trial.

George Washington University is suing a Rhode Island insurance company over what it claims is $75,000 worth of insurance coverage for coronavirus-related expenses, court documents show.

In the months following this summer’s influx of Afghan refugees to the D.C. area – and as resettlement agencies deal with limited resources – local businesses have stepped up to provide aid. This Thanksgiving, restaurants such as Lapis in…

D.C. will terminate the housing subsidies of 384 families who receive rent relief through the city’s “rapid rehousing” program throughout March and April of 2022. The decision will plunge hundreds of financially vulnerable people deeper…

This year isn't the first time DC Council members have proposed bringing ranked-choice voting to the District, but last week did mark the first time a council committee held a public hearing on legislation to do so.

The development team behind the reshaping of the 15 acres in Southwest DC that includes the Greenleaf Gardens public housing community has released its final plan for how that redevelopment will take shape.

The proposed D.C. Council’s subcommittee on redistricting map based on the 2020 census includes significant changes in the boundaries for Wards 6, 7 and 8 which have generated spirited discussion among District residents.

To celebrate her 6-year-old son becoming fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, D.C. parent Leilah Mooney Joseph has planned what she called a “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” type of day.