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 ...

Chef James Robinson didn’t expect to close his H Street restaurant, KitchenCray, just three years into operation. Robinson, who overcame homelessness and is now a chef to the stars, opened it back in ...

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 ...

Potomac Yard, Metro’s newest and 98th station overall, is open as of 5 a.m. Friday morning. Alexandria residents have waited decades for this moment. The new station is on the Blue and Yellow lines ...

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.

In forests in the eastern U.S., it can be easy to miss the fact that things are going awry. Elsewhere, in places like the Rocky Mountains or the Sierra Nevada, the signs may be more obvious: a whole ...

The D.C. Council on Tuesday passed emergency legislation dissolving the D.C. Housing Authority’s 13-person board and replacing it with a nine-person alternative that will remain in place for two years ...

Metro is rolling out a new version of its iconic Metrorail map today ahead of the Silver Line Phase II extension opening later this fall, potentially in November. The transit agency says it has 5,000 ...

On Tuesday, amid the morning traffic of Metrobuses and a small crowd of bystanders, D.C. officials unveiled a new mural celebrating go-go on a corner in Shaw, where a battle once brewed over D.C.’s ...

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors approved proposals to build a massive and controversial new data center complex next to Manassas Battlefield National Park. The 4-3 vote was carried by ...

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 ...