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The Library of Congress is our national library, yet its name does not embody that fact. It is our oldest national cultural institution, and debates about its name have swirled since its founding. The headline of an 1897 article in the…

Vaccines are helping us protect ourselves from the coronavirus, but what will protect our children from a widening opportunity gap and the mental health challenges exacerbated by all that we’ve lost over the past 15 months?

The drag races started at midafternoon in the pothole-pocked parking lot in Northeast Washington. The temperature was in the mid-90s. The asphalt shimmered. In the near distance, the decaying hulk of RFK Stadium loomed.

Fourth of July on the National Mall is back, along with neighborhood parades slated for the holiday.

Work on a new bridge and trail in D.C.’s Rock Creek Park will require some midday road closures for nearly the rest of the calendar year along Beach Drive NW.

A five-story building under construction in Northwest Washington collapsed amid a heavy storm Thursday afternoon, trapping one worker in the rubble for about 90 minutes and sending him and four others to hospitals with injuries, according…

The National Mall will be busy this weekend for the Fourth of July fireworks and D.C. police say they’re ready for it.

Metro Transit Police can’t demonstrate that officers investigated thousands of reported robberies, assaults, sex offenses and property crimes over a span of several years, according to the agency’s internal watchdog.

The D.C. government activated its Heat Emergency Plan this week as the heat index reached as high as 105 degrees in some parts of Washington between June 27 and 30. Despite publicly advertised cooling sites, general knowledge of which…

A construction worker has been rescued after being trapped for about an hour and a half in the collapse of a building under construction Thursday afternoon in Northwest D.C.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Five workers were injured Thursday when a building under construction collapsed in the nation’s capital, trapping one man for more than an hour as firefighters worked feverishly to free him from layers of debris.

The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB), an agency charged with setting funding and project priorities for Greater Washington’s transportation sector, voted last month to commit to a new long-range plan that better…

The District’s only general hospital east of the Anacostia River faces major spending cuts — a decision both employees and patients say feels like a betrayal.

Members of the Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH) shelter capacity working group met June 23 to discuss last winter’s shelter numbers and plan bed-capacity recommendations for this winter’s hypothermia season.

The Anacostia Community Museum's new outdoor exhibition highlights 12 local changemakers who work on nutrition, health, and food justice.

He'll pay $2,000 a month for the next two years.

D.C.’s Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration (ABRA) found ­Nellie’s Sports Bar in violation of District code and referred its findings to the Office of the Attorney General following an investigation into a viral video that showed…

The Metro Transit Police Department didn’t investigate or properly document thousands of crimes committed on the transit system between 2010 and 2017, according to a report published Thursday by Metro’s Inspector General.

Metro’s watchdog agency on Thursday released a report accusing Metro Transit Police of failing to investigate thousands of claims of criminal offenses, including robberies, sexual offenses, kidnappings and assaults.

It was a sentence that went viral, spoken by then-First Lady Michelle Obama and quickly shared across the internet, as many political sound bites have done before. But this one was shadowed by a deep history of pain that few had spoken…