The chair of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors says she feels blessed after the United Daughters of the Confederacy requested its statue back. The monument to Confederate soldiers has stood ...

Tonight: Wicked begins its run at the Kennedy Center, two outdoor movie options (one includes ballroom dancing lessons), Elvis Costello performs at Wolf Trap, and the Belgian Beer Festival and ...

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 ...

Gorgeous common hardwoods like American Beech and elm fill the canopy of Washington, D.C., but it has many surprising trees, too. Some tell stories from history. Others traveled from unexpected places ...

Anna remembers the first time she experienced racism at a Loudoun County school. She was in the fourth grade. “I remember…these two girls said I couldn’t play with them because [I] was Black,” Anna, ...

When the D.C. Council created the Baby Bonds program two years ago, lawmakers said it was an intentional and potentially transformational attempt to help low-income children in the city. But a ...

Loudoun County is renaming roads that previously bore the names of Confederate generals, enslavers, and segregationists, participating in a region-wide trend seeking to remove names and symbols ...

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 ...

Capitol Steps, the popular satirical performance group known for putting the “mock in democracy,” announced it will be shutting down this year. “Like many in the entertainment business, we simply ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...