El Chucho's, a long-awaited new Mexican restaurant in Columbia Heights, is now expected to open in June. more ›

Prior to the early 1900s, many of the neighborhoods we now live in had very different street names. It's too bad some of them had to go. more ›

The consumer electronics giant Best Buy announced 42 stores it plans to close in the coming weeks, and the Columbia Heights location is not one of them. Two stores in Northern Virginia will close, though. more ›

The PORC truck became the latest food truck to transform into a brick-and-mortar establishment when its owners announced plans to open a restaurant in Columbia Heights. The new place will be called Kangaroo Boxing Club. more ›

A man walking in Columbia Heights was killed this afternoon when he was struck by a waste-removal truck in the 1400 block of Columbia Road NW. more ›

One month after his death, hundreds gathered in Columbia Heights last night to remember Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed February 26 by a neighborhood watch patrolman claiming self defense. more ›

Police arrested a suspect in a March 11 shooting at the IHOP in Columbia Heights neighborhood in which the victim was the subject of anti-gay harassment, Mayor Gray and D.C. Police Chief Lanier announced Monday. more ›

The news that the District's Latino population keeps growing isn't new, but now you can better visualize how the city's shifting fortunes have affected where Latinos tend to live. more ›

D.C. police are still looking for two people in connection to an early morning shooting at the Columbia Heights IHOP on Sunday that left a man injured, writes WJLA. more ›

A BBQ-themed food truck, PORC mobile, announced this week that it will open a brick-and-mortar restaurant in Columbia Heights. more ›

Starting tonight, the ramen bar, surreptitiously intermixed within the walls and operations of Señor Chicken, will expand its service from one night to Monday through Saturday from 5 to 9:30 p.m. more ›

The annual Three Kings Fiesta took place in Columbia Heights on Sunday, celebrating Epiphany Latino-style. more ›

Last September, 21-year-old Jamal Coates was killed during a brazen daylight drive-by shooting on U Street NW. This week, reports Homicide Watch, seven men have been charged for gang violence and retaliations that led to seven deaths since 2006 in Columbia Heights, Adams Morgan and U Street -- including Coates'. more ›

After having been kicked out of their prime Adams Morgan location in late September, the Unity Market vendors have found a new home north of Columbia Heights. more ›

Despite its imposing presence, Cardozo High School, like many of the District's iconic public schools, has long been in disrepair. That will soon change. more ›

I'm betting an uptick of foul language will be heard this weekend around the Columbia Heights, U Street and Shaw Metro stations as inattentive riders realize the closures of the three this holiday weekend. Your next curse may be asking what in hell is going on down there that would take an entire weekend to fix? WMATA is shushing all the transit malcontents today by releasing b-roll footage of metro employees actively working on the green line. After the jump, two more snippets of track work. more ›

Sometimes, it's far easier to portray these things with maps. more ›

A few weeks ago, we reported that the annual Fiesta DC in Mt. Pleasant wasn't a celebration for everyone. But it looks like those residents may not have much to worry about next year. more ›

Do you live on the Green Line and have a job that requires you to take Metro to get to work on Columbus Day? You may want to think about taking a sick day -- WMATA will close the Shaw, U Street and Columbia Heights stations from 10 p.m. on Friday, October 8 until opening on Tuesday, October 11. more ›

This afternoon, D.C. Fire and EMS responded to a mass casualty incident inside the Second Genesis rehabilitation center at 1324 Harvard Street NW. more ›

No, cops in Columbia Heights are not stopping people on bikes, asking to see proof of ownership and confiscating the bikes if none could be provided. more ›

Don't forget, Shaw residents: today is your last chance to pick up groceries at the Giant supermarket at 1414 8th Street NW. The grocery store will be closing its doors today at 6 p.m. more ›

It's been no secret that, at some point, the Giant supermarket at 1414 8th Street NW in Shaw would close -- after all, it's difficult to build a new development which features a brand new, 35,000-square-foot supermarket with an old one standing in the way. Today, the chain confirmed that the grocery would close on September 8 at 6 p.m. more ›

Good morning, Washington. Today is Slutwalk DC, the latest in a slew of protest marches triggered by a Toronto cop’s comment at a safety forum in January claiming that “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.” more ›

The 19-year-old that police arrested in connection with an attack on a group of lesbian women outside the Columbia Heights Metro station on July 30 has now been charged with a hate crime. more ›

Over the weekend, a group of five lesbians accused several D.C. police officers of ignoring an attack by two men near the Columbia Heights Metro Station -- and Chief Cathy Lanier says that she'll punish them severely if she has to. more ›

More and more the coals under D.C. police department continue to burn hotter over its recent treatment of LGBT-related hate crimes. Five lesbians are now accusing the MPD of ignoring an attack by two men near the Columbia Heights Metro Station early last Saturday morning. According to the women, the two men assaulted them slurs and punches after one of the women rebuffed advances from one of the men. more ›

Rodney McIntyre, the father of 17-year-old Ebony Franklin -- who was sexually assaulted, brutally murdered and discovered inside an alley dumpster on the 1000 block of Fairmont Street NW last November -- pled guilty to Franklin's murder today. more ›

One week. That's how long it took Terry Allen Jimenez, arrested and charged with second-degree murder for allegedly shooting and killing an innocent man last Saturday, to get back into trouble in D.C. after he left town for safety reasons. more ›

Last Friday, we reported on a pair of brick-throwing incidents which left two Columbia Heights bars -- Meridian Pint and Room 11 -- with broken windows. With the investigation still ongoing, DCist has obtained security camera footage from outside Meridian which shows the vandal tossing a brick through the bar's front window, as well as more details on the crime. more ›