For years, powdered cocaine was D.C.'s drug of choice, but when crack hit the streets, the city was plagued by levels of addiction and violence that caught residents, police and politicians by ...

Brian Butcher, a history teacher at Ballou High School, sat in the bleachers of the school’s brand new football field last June watching 164 seniors receive diplomas. It was a clear, warm night, and ...

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When white supremacists gather in D.C. this weekend for the “Unite the Right 2” rally, they will be following a relatively long — though spotty — tradition of demonstrating in the nation’s capital.

The Democratic gains in Virginia House of Delegates were fueled by a slate of candidates from Northern Virginia, including one former Marine who openly called himself a democratic socialist on his way ...

A decades-old D.C. law prohibits owners of full-service gas stations from converting them to anything else. But a developer who owns a Petworth gas station is arguing that the law is unconstitutional.

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In the 1980s and ’90s, Dupont Circle was the closest thing D.C. had to San Francisco’s freewheeling Castro District. It was a place where you could buy an oil painting, browse lesbian erotica and ...

The weather is warm, the calendar has flipped to May, and far too many fun events are going on in D.C. this Saturday. So, how do you decide what to do? How do you cram as much as possible into one day ...

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A new report from the National Women's Law Center looks at the work student activists and policymakers are doing to promote equitable school dress codes in D.C.

More than 18 months after Sarah McBride came out as transgender, she's working to achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a politician.