District aims to boost infrastructure jobs with training academy

The District of Columbia and local utility companies aim to eliminate a shortage of qualified and trained professionals in the city’s infrastructure industry with a new training academy.

Nationals Youth Baseball Academy

The Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy in Southeast Washington D.C. gives 3rd to 8th graders a place to go after school where they learn much more than baseball.

Marion Barry St.: Locals Petition to Rename H Street, Benning Road

He was known as Washington, D.C.’s “mayor for life,” but he was no stranger to controversy. Even as three days of memorial observances get underway, two brothers are working to honor the late Marion Barry with the renaming of a local street in his honor.