D.C. can easily cover the sequester cuts, given the $400 million budget surplus it announced earlier this year. The outstanding question, however, is whether or not Mayor Vince Gray will be an advocate for this city's growing poor population.

America is witnessing some of its highest income inequality and lowest social mobility rates ever. If we are to fix any of this, it is best that we start at home, in our back yard, and in our nation's capital. And that begins with the Anacostia.

WASHINGTON -- The National Building Museum in Washington is exploring the neighborhood of Anacostia in a new exhibit produced by teenagers from the re...

Signs suggest Anacostia is next in line for resurrection. The vestiges of economic blight -- unkempt liquor stores and condemned buildings -- are slowly vanishing as startup businesses, art galleries and new restaurants take their place.

WASHINGTON -- Amid light but steady rainfall, hundreds of people crowded Pennsylvania Avenue and Freedom Plaza on Saturday afternoon to protest the Fe...

WASHINGTON-- A blaze at Anacostia High School has already injured one firefighter. Students have been evacuated from the school. Tweets from t...

WASHINGTON -- Sitting in a Foggy Bottom Starbucks on Sunday, a woman leaned over to ask Markus Batchelor his age. "Wow," she said when the George ...

WASHINGTON -- Where is Anacostia? That should be a relatively easy question to answer. (It's a District of Columbia neighborhood in Ward 8 roughly cen...

WASHINGTON -- For the Veterans Day three-day weekend, Metro is conducting major track rehabilitation work on the Green Line and suspending service bet...

WASHINGTON -- A critical link for the District of Columbia's future streetcar network will be built without rails necessary to run trolley vehicles. A...

WASHINGTON -- There have been some big changes to the District of Columbia's Circulator bus system, a network of limited-stop routes meant to suppleme...

WASHINGTON -- When Metro institutes a number of bus changes this weekend across the region, the transit agency will be trying something new with one b...