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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

This story was completed with support from SpotlightDC. When you walk into Mike Savage’s house in Waldorf, Maryland, one of the first things you see is a table full of medals, awards, and photos — a ...

Building E on the Foreign Service Institute’s leafy Arlington campus is stately, with columns out front and a beige brick facade. These days, the place houses administrative offices and a handful of ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story was completed with support from SpotlightDC and in partnership with the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University. For D.C. Metropolitan Police Department sergeant Tony Giles, ...