Today’s Silver Line was on the early back-of-the-napkin sketches for the Metrorail system when it was being developed in the mid-1960s. But the idea for a line that stretched as far as Dulles ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What do goats, satellites, and tiny solar panels have to do with Chesapeake Bay water quality? Potentially a lot: agriculture is the biggest single source of pollution flowing into the bay. Farms ...

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 ...

The Metropolitan Police Department was forced to rehire more than three dozen officers it tried to fire between 2015 and 2021 — and those rehirings led to the District paying those officers $14 ...

Joe Englert, local nightlife titan known for his numerous bars and restaurants all across the District, including on H Street NE, U Street, and in Capitol Hill, has died. He was 59. The cause of death ...