When Amilcar Benitez bought a mobile home at Harmony Place in Alexandria, it needed a lot of work. The flooring, insulation and plumbing in the two-bedroom home he shares with his wife and two ...

On a recent Friday evening outside of D.C., musicians, videographers, managers, and invited guests mill around a brick house on a wooded lane in an otherwise quiet residential neighborhood. Drinks are ...

Alice was kicked out of her Buy Nothing group over a white noise machine. Last September, a woman posted in a Capitol Hill Buy Nothing Group – a hyperlocal Facebook community designed for giving away ...

You know how you might see one ant — a lone ant — crawling around on your cupboard shelf? And once you notice the lone ant, your eyes dial in, scanning the cupboard shelf until they land on a second ...

The D.C. State Board of Education voted unanimously in favor of new social studies standards Wednesday evening that will transform how the subject is taught in the city’s public and charter schools.

It’s maybe the most hotly anticipated moment of every Washington Nationals home game. In the middle of the fourth inning, the right field gate swings open and out run four giant-headed U.S. presidents ...

Often in the morning, and sometimes at night, Rachelle Nigro takes to the streets around her condo building in Mt. Vernon Square. You could call her a neighborhood busybody. Or just a concerned ...

Taking stock of the housing crisis in D.C. and across the country, it’s not difficult to see that something has to change: As housing and living costs rise, more people than ever are spending at least ...

The outcome in the U.S. Senate last week couldn’t have been more clear: 81 senators, 33 of them Democrats, voted to block a D.C. bill that revised and modernized the city’s century-old criminal laws.

When M.K. arrived at the D.C. Jail around the start of 2022, his HIV was undetectable — meaning the virus was suppressed to the point where it couldn’t be transmitted to others. This was thanks to a ...

If you had to guess, how many cats would you say reside in the nation’s capital? Well, you no longer have to guess! Science has the answer: roughly 200,000 members of the Felis catus species roam the ...

High school students at the D.C. Jail have reached a settlement in a lawsuit over the city’s failure to provide incarcerated students with adequate education during the pandemic. Three students at the ...