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When she bought her home on Talbert Street in 2018, Jeanita Brown was certain she’d live there forever. But within weeks, she began to feel uneasy: her windows weren’t closing, and small cracks began to spiderweb up her walls — but…

The investigation into Wednesday morning’s fatal D.C. police shooting of a Black man is in its early stages, and officials have cautioned against jumping to conclusions before all the facts have been established. But what is known — that a…

Many invoke the late Rep. John Lewis and other Civil Rights figures in new push to expand ballot access

D.C. has reached a national milestone for rent relief ahead of a use-it-or-lose-it deadline, ensuring more funds will be available for renters and landlords in the District, the mayor’s office announced Friday.

As a crisis roils D.C.’s Medicaid system, city leaders said on Friday that they will issue an entirely new procurement for insurance companies to manage poor patients’ care — an attempt that may or may not prevent MedStar from revoking…

School starts in D.C. on Monday morning, but teachers say they’re concerned some buildings won’t be ready. D.C.’s city administrator told lawmakers that contracted maintenance crews will work all weekend to make necessary fixes to heating,…

In August 1963, around 250,000 people gathered in D.C. as part of the March on Washington—where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his now-legendary “I Have A Dream” speech. Over 58 years later, another voting rights march will take place…

Yes, you read that right. The Washington Monument will be open again to the public this weekend, after a lightning strike earlier this month forced it to close.

The District’s most competitive application high school is failing to enroll students who attended a neighborhood middle school in the city’s poorest wards — even after officials temporarily eliminated an admission test during the…

D.C. Public Schools students will be automatically enrolled in the city’s random coronavirus testing program unless the student, parent or guardian opts out, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Friday.

A Palisades home that received a recent makeover by a former NFL player is now on the market.

The Washington Monument is set to reopen Sunday after an extended period of repairs stemming from a lightning strike almost two weeks ago, a National Park Service spokesman said.

As the D.C. region barrels towards another pandemic autumn, cases and hospitalizations are continuing to rise in the D.C. region.

D.C. Fire and EMS members were honored in a ceremony on Friday for saving a woman’s life after she had a heart attack earlier this year.

The very week that Michelin-starred chef Nick Stefanelli was gearing up to open his newest restaurant in downtown D.C. last year, local governments were imposing lockdowns and social distancing to slow the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. …

The District announced Friday that all public school students would automatically be put into its asymptomatic coronavirus testing program — a reversal from its long-standing position that parents must consent to testing.

This weekend’s March On For Washington and Voting Rights and the Make Good Trouble Rally are expected to bring thousands to the National Mall to demand expanded access to the vote. The march comes amid a wave of legislation in…

A promised public museum at the congressionally chartered U.S. Institute of Peace failed to materialize. Why?

Hanging out on a patch of grass surrounded by a heavily-trafficked roadway may not sound like an ideal way to unwind on a summer afternoon. But if you stroll past one of D.C.’s traffic circles on a sunny day — instead of whizzing by in…

Photographer Chip Py was going to a lot of music shows in the D.C. area in the early 2000s, and he had seen plenty of pictures documenting area hardcore punk shows.