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.

Ahead of the gay club’s final night on Saturday, family and friends share what Town has meant to them. Before it closes, the club promises “a multitude of remarkable events to help Town go out in the ...

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 ...

Every year, about 500 identifiable people in D.C. drive as much as 70% of the city’s gun violence, according to a new report commissioned by the city. The study was authored by the National Institute ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blood and business don’t mix — at least that’s a warning people tend to give about working with family. But some of the D.C. region’s most beloved restaurants are family-owned and operated — and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Metro released its “visionary” bus network redesign maps on Monday, proposing drastically more bus service to the region. The plan, which is 35% more expensive than the current service, is unfunded so ...

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 ...

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.