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 ...

Mikey Payne takes a short running start, propelling his skateboard quickly forward along the clay-colored granite surface on the eastern edge of Freedom Plaza. In a seamless motion, he flicks his ...

The Arlington County Board unanimously approved a major change Wednesday night, ending single-family only zoning in the county. The so-called “missing middle” zoning ordinance opens up residential ...

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 ...

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.

D.C. has been called lots of things, but “District of Crime?” That’s the moniker Fox News recently used for D.C. in a recent segment on a sweeping overhaul of the city’s criminal code passed by the ...

When the D.C. Council created the Baby Bonds program two years ago, lawmakers said it was an intentional and potentially transformational attempt to help low-income children in the city. But a ...

On December 2, 1997, 26 years ago this week, the MCI Center opened at the corner of F and 6th Streets Northwest in the District’s Chinatown neighborhood. City officials celebrated, hoping the arena ...

Gorgeous common hardwoods like American Beech and elm fill the canopy of Washington, D.C., but it has many surprising trees, too. Some tell stories from history. Others traveled from unexpected places ...

The neighborhood derives its name from the federal facility established in the late 18th century, now diminished from its heyday as the nation’s shipbuilding hub. The facility counted Abraham Lincoln ...

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 ...