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As Shekita McBroom walked down the church aisle in Southeast Washington toward her daughter’s body, mourners could see signs of Jayla McBroom’s youth throughout the sanctuary.

D.C.’s Ward 8 just became a bit more colorful.

An update to the Comprehensive Plan, DC’s overarching planning document that guides growth and development in the District, is moving through the legislative process after Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the bill Wednesday.

The District of Columbia won’t enforce “current or future” restrictions on worship services of the Capitol Hill Baptist Church, or CHBC, settling a federal lawsuit the congregation filed in September 2020 alleging unfair treatment during…

The little girl celebrated her sixth birthday silently, on life support — something no child should ever have to experience.

A report released yesterday by the D.C. Auditor found that a company which stands to receive nearly $110 million over the five year contract has only two employees and “it is clear VSC did not and cannot perform the work outlined in the…

A new report released on Thursday sheds light on how many people left DC during the pandemic.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is backing away from a plan to delay redevelopment of the Park Morton public housing complex in the face of staunch opposition.

The unexplained deaths of large numbers of birds in the D.C. area and elsewhere over the past month and a half appear to be on the wane, but scientists are still urging people to be cautious about safety.

For 17 years, a federally funded K-12 scholarship program has given thousands of poor children in D.C. the opportunity to attend private schools and the chance to go on to college. And for many of those 17 years, the program has been in…

Dropping rents in downtown D.C. and rising home prices in the suburbs are just two signs that the nation’s capital hemorrhaged residents during the pandemic in 2020. And newly analyzed data from the U.S. Postal Service provides a clearer…

After more than a year spent trading heels for slippers, and real pants for sweatpants, fashion is back. To celebrate, an immersive new art installation is helping Washingtonians get reacquainted with style by dropping them directly into a…

Job losses, remote work opportunities and closed schools led to a noticeable increase in the number of D.C. residents leaving the District during the pandemic, though many of those moves appear to be temporary.

New affordable housing has opened for some D.C. seniors on limited budgets.

After a year in which conversations of racial equity took center stage, including within the real estate and development realms, a Community Development Financial Institution (CFDI) is looking to bridge the gap in the DC region.

Intralot, the company that in 2019 received a large no-bid contract to operate the District's lottery and sports betting regimes, is not meeting requirements to direct 35% of the work to small, local and other disadvantaged businesses, the…

A neighborhood is divided over the future of homeless encampments at the intersection of 12th Street and Massachusetts Avenue in Northwest D.C.

The company that operates DC's sports betting program is behind on requirements to hire locally, the DC auditor found.

While most of the attention for the past 16 months has been on the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, opioid abuse in the District has increased, raising concerns of city officials.

The District of Columbia also joined the suit, the latest to challenge Big Tech business practices