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At a ceremony held Friday, the university officially renamed the 2400 block of 4th Street Northwest to Lucy Diggs Slowe Way

The PNC Foundation is providing a $16.8 million grant to Howard University to create the PNC National Center for Entrepreneurship at its D.C. campus.

As Howard University prepared for homecoming weekend, officials dedicated a street on campus to a pioneer in education and advocate for women’s rights and racial justice.

In 1998, the District of Columbia Public Schools were doing such a bad job preparing students for college that when local business executives asked how many graduating seniors went to college the year before, district leaders didn’t know. …

About 400 people gathered in front of the Taft Memorial to urge Congress to act.

As Howard University’s first in-person homecoming festivities in two years continued on Saturday, about 150 students camped out in front of a campus building, with some camped in the building’s lobby, continuing a sit-in that started…

A rare rail car defect has morphed into Metro’s biggest crisis since a deadly smoke incident six years ago

For a second week, students at Howard University are protesting what they call "unlivable" housing conditions, claiming mold, roaches and mice are common inside the dorms on campus. They are pitching sleeping bags and blankets inside the…

I’ve spent my career helping residents of our region realize their dreams of homeownership. And while not everyone can afford to buy a home, everyone deserves to have a home.

A local nonprofit that has received its first LGBTQ+ grant from the District is using it to help asylum seekers in the area.

Five D.C. lawmakers want the inspector general to look into reports of unethical — and potentially criminal — behavior at the city’s Housing Authority.

The agency’s board chair resigned this week in the wake of allegations of a conflict of interest.

Mayor Muriel Bowser has appointed a new “night mayor” to head DC’s Office of Nightlife and Culture. Solana Vander Nat will take over the post, which has remained empty since inaugural director Shawn Townsend left the job in July for a…

Go and learn about the Rat Funeral.

A malfunctioning Metro train in a tunnel outside Gallery Place in D.C. briefly stranded about 100 passengers and led to even more delays Friday afternoon on a system already running limited service.

Metrorail service resumed Friday afternoon on the Green and Yellow lines between the Mount Vernon Square and L’Enfant Plaza stations after it was briefly suspended and passengers were evacuated from a disabled train.

A coalition of progressive groups in D.C. has launched a campaign to decriminalize all drugs and push towards a harm-reduction approach that would include supervised sites where people could use drugs.

Union Kitchen took the wraps off its long-planned location in D.C.’s Eckington neighborhood on Tuesday, roughly three years after it announced plans for a shared kitchen and retail store in the larger mixed-use development by JBG Smith…

The culinary complex hosts over a dozen vendors for sushi, fried chicken, pizza, and more.

It was gardening day on Friday in Ward 8 as volunteers worked to bring the National Cherry Blossom Festival to Southeast D.C.