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 ...

The Arlington County Board unanimously approved a major change Wednesday night, ending single-family only zoning in the county. The so-called “missing middle” zoning ordinance opens up residential ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once the largest and only federally-run mental hospital in the United States, St. Elizabeths now sits largely abandoned on a sprawling corner of Southeast. For years, D.C. has been promising big ...

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 ...

Late this year, Metro’s board will decide whether to embark on its biggest rail expansion since the Silver Line. Metro has long been studying solutions to capacity issues in the Rosslyn Tunnel under ...

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 ...

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 stately Capitol, with its iconic dome literally crowned by Freedom, presides over the eastern end of the Mall. Its hallowed halls have seen plenty of action (and inaction) in the course of its 200 ...

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 ...