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 ...

Walking through the steep, narrow servant staircases of Riversdale House, it’s hard not to be struck by how separated you are from the dramatic halls, dining room, and parlors in the rest of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Robert Barton was in year 27 of a 30-to-life-sentence when he found out his cellmate was being released. “Every time I looked at him, I saw the lure of freedom,” Barton wrote in September. “I know he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Metro Board of Directors is asking the D.C. Council to delay for a year a plan to make Metrobuses free of charge within city limits, dealing a blow to an initiative that was popular with lawmakers ...