Link

It’s hard to imagine Washington not making the cut as a host city when the 2026 World Cup is held in North America. The D.C. area, after all, already has staged games in three World Cups (one men’s, two women’s), has hosted Olympic soccer…

Chase Shorter was all smiles and giggles as he recently celebrated his third birthday at a trampoline park in suburban Maryland. He bounced with friends, dunked a mini basketball, and threw giant yellow and green blocks in an endless pit.…

Eleven charter schools in D.C. plan to offer admissions preference to students who are homeless, receive assistance, in foster care or who are a year older for their grade.

The annual H Street Festival returned to D.C.’s Northeast neighborhood on Saturday after COVID-19 caused the festivities to go virtual last year.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the shadow of a fortified Capitol, a few hundred demonstrators turned up Saturday for a rally to support those charged in January’s riot, but were vastly outnumbered by the media and a heavy police presence.

A small band of protesters decrying the treatment of the mob that overran the U.S. Capitol was dwarfed by hundreds of police officers and news reporters Saturday, as the most anticipated visit by right-wing activists to the nation’s…

Amid tight security — armored vehicles, riot gear, the District’s entire police department on duty — a couple hundred people gathered on the west side of the U.S. Capitol for a rally in support of the defendants facing charges related to…

U.S. Capitol and law enforcement groups were ready to go and the fencing was put up around the Capitol as the “Justice for J6” rally moved into D.C.

Every year, people on all seven continents gather along whatever coastal system they’re near — creaks, rivers, lakes, oceans — to help pick up trash as part of the Ocean Conservancy’s annual International Coastal Cleanup. This year,…

David Van Horn went to place flowers at a makeshift memorial for Allison Hart — a 5-year-old girl who was hit and killed in a crosswalk while riding her bike — when he captured an infuriating scene on video.

General Manager Paul J. Wiedefeld orders new guidelines, citing too many instances of trains near work zones

We appear to be only days now from the last meal, literal and symbolic, at a well-known eatery at one of the better-known Washington crossroads.

You might have to be 18 to vote, but you don’t have to be a certain age to have a voice in the community — and the District’s youth mayor is proving that.

With support from a National Park Service grant, the DC Preservation League is conducting a survey of women's suffrage and history in D.C.

As D.C.’s mayor and council continue to battle over the extension of Medicaid benefits for more than a quarter-million people, the chairman of the D.C. Council has told Mayor Muriel Bowser that her emergency action last week was outside…

Eleven D.C. charter schools plan on giving admissions preference to students who are homeless, in the foster system, or receiving certain benefits starting in the 2022 school year, part of an effort to expand access to some high-performing…

Capitol and D.C. police said Friday they are fully prepared in the event of violence at a planned Saturday rally of demonstrators supporting those arrested in the pro-Trump riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

U.S. Capitol Police are activating a large-scale security plan in hopes of avoiding the events of Jan. 6, 2021, Chief Tom Manger said at a Friday press conference.

In July, Metro’s Board of Directors approved plans to fully convert the WMATA bus fleet to electric buses over the next two decades, by 2045. Up to 12 electric buses could be rolled out in a pilot program in 2023, and the system plans to…

Coverage will include city politics, restaurants, and transportation.