It was Sept. 7, 1971 when John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opened its doors to the public for the first time. People poured into the grandiose building on that warm late summer day, some ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The D.C. Council’s transportation committee wants to buy a condemned and dilapidated relic of D.C.’s street car network — Georgetown’s trolley trestle bridge — and turn it into a multi-use trail.

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, ...

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors approved proposals to build a massive and controversial new data center complex next to Manassas Battlefield National Park. The 4-3 vote was carried by ...

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.

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 ...