Anacostia News

The map that defines the way many Washington-area residents think of their neighborhoods and commutes needs a new look.

Kerry Washington 's complicated television character didn't complicate her encounter with Michelle Obama.

Capt. Monte L. Ulmer, commanding officer of Naval Support Activity Washington, answers questions during an interview with Brandon Nasby, radio host of The Boxer Show aired on 98.7 WMZQ-FM, as part of a week long special for Military Appreciation Month held at the Washington Navy Yard May 15.

Robles-Gordon cobbles together sculptures and canvas collages from scraps of paper and fabric she finds in the neighborhood's trash cans and storefront windows.

We have a ruling class that despises the free market and does all in its power to restrict its scope.

D.C. police say a 28-year-old man was shot and killed in an apartment blocks away from the Anacostia Metro station in southeast Washington.

Capt. Monte L. Ulmer, commanding officer of Naval Support Activity Washington, answers questions during an interview with Brandon Nasby, radio host of The Boxer Show aired on 98.7 WMZQ-FM, as part of a week long special for Military Appreciation Month held at the Washington Navy Yard May 15.

Washington area leaders reached an important, 99-year agreement on how to handle tons of daily sewage in our region.

A 73-year-old pediatrician who practiced for decades in the District's most impoverished neighborhoods was arrested at his office Wednesday and charged with downloading images of child pornography, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court.

Big Chair in Southeast Washington, which shut down a major neighborhood corridor for about 45 minutes, D.C. police said.

Lost in the City ," the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of Edward P. Jones's short stories set across various D.C. neighborhoods and historical eras; " The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears ," Dinaw Mengestu's tale of an Ethiopian immigrant making a new life in a barely-gentrifying Logan Circle; and " Frederick Douglass in Washington D.C.: The ... (more)

The District of Columbia is one step closer to opening the new streetcar line that will connect the H Street/Benning Road corridor in Northeast Washington.

Local transportation and elected officials gathered in College Park this morning to inaugurate the newly-wrapped Route 1 Ride bus.

A defense official says an investigation of a possible suspicious letter at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., has turned out to be a false alarm.