Columbia Heights News

Those were among of the conclusions of a recent Brookings Institution study on walkable neighborhoods in the Washington region.

Tabulators in Washington record the information from the more than 120,000 enumerators who gathered data for the 1940 U.S. census.

A scheduled May 22 status hearing for LaShawn Carson, accused of shooting a gay man at a Columbia Heights IHOP Restaurant, has been postponed.

Rep. Jared Polis , another openly gay member of the House, sent out the fundraising solicitation to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's donors on Thursday morning.

On Wednesday, the D.C. Housing Authority successfully matched 80 homeless veterans and their families with permanent housing, boosting the number of veterans who receive free or subsidized housing vouchers in the District to 744.

In the 30 years I have been studying the growth of Advanced Placement and other college-level courses in American high schools, no development has been more surprising or controversial than what I call the "Catching Up Schools." That is my label for about three dozen schools across the country in low-income neighborhoods that offer an unusual ... (more)

Author Everett Maroon delivered the keynote address; while Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive executive director Cyndee Clay, Rainbow History Fund founder Mark Meinke and TransPride founder SaVanna Wanzer were honored for their work on behalf of trans Washingtonians.

It's summer in D.C. and cool evenings give you no excuse to stay cooped up indoors.

But on Sunday, it was the site of Dance in the Circle, a six-hour festival that transformed the shady Northwest park into a moving mass of people bouncing to hip-hop, swaying to classical compositions and clapping with cloggers.

Five seeds farm is one of them. It is a hybrid, a city and a country farm. Denzel Mitchell, founder and homestead leader of five seeds farms , began planting on abandoned lots and growing food for the block in Baltimore city, not far from Washington DC.

A spike in pain prompts Lyndly Wadley to call a shuttle service that will take him from his nursing home to his friend's apartment.

As observant readers may have noticed, it's Pizza Week round these parts. And to bring some of that saucy, juicy deliciousness from the computer screen to your doorstep, Eater has teamed up with some of our favorite pizzerias in five cities for a special promotion.

It was once known as the "Murder Capital of the World," a city beset by a crack epidemic, no-go areas and resulting crime which triggered decades ofA white flightA to the suburbs.

Last week the D.C. Council pushed forward plans to add performance parking to parts of the city beyond the pilot zones of Columbia Heights, the Ball Park, and H Street NE and emphasized downtown D.C.'s need for better parking management.

A District of Columbia Council committee has approved a plan to allow city officials to manage demand for parking spaces and reduce traffic by charging higher rates at parking meters during peak periods.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A fire caused heavy damage to the Columbia Heights home of longtime DC community activist Dorothy Brizill.