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Work from home? Starting a side hustle? This is the only map and guide you'll ever need.

Local businesses formed a collective to rebrand their block, and it looks like it's working.

The University of the District of Columbia is the only exclusively urban university in the country created to provide agricultural training to the public. As such, it's uniquely positioned to help urban farmers.

Union Kitchen's cofounder says its businesses have collectively generated $40 million in revenue. And it's about to triple in size.

For over a decade, the Catalogue For Philanthropy Greater Washington has helped do-gooders decide how to "give where they live." But it hasn't always been this way (and founder Barbara Harman used to have nightmares about it failing). Here's the story of one book that really changes lives.

“Hip-hop is all grown up now. KRS-One is 50. I’m forty....[But] hip-hop is an approach, a world view, and hip-hop-heads are in academia, in corporate life.” 

Photographer James Cullum captured these shots at the mass snowball fight at Dupont Circle on February 17. 

An innovative program--in D.C. and just five other cities nationwide--aims to supplement high-school health class so kids can learn how to make good decisions. For Delaney Balderas, it's also a chance to put her studies into real-world work.

City leaders believe that Minneapolis should be the first non-coastal city that knowledge workers and business leaders think of after Chicago. Here's why.

M&S Barber Services, a fixture in Brookland for almost 20 years, needs to find a new location. But the story of one barber shop versus neighborhood change is so much bigger.

In early January, Tommy Wells was appointed Acting Director of the District Department of the Environment (DDOE).  A few weeks after he took over, Elevation DC sat down to talk with him about his vision for his department and his priorities for the coming years.  

A number of arts organizations—many of them less than a decade old—are slowly turning Wards 7 and 8 from “art deserts” to art destinations. But the change of pace is slower than many would like.

Sony was hacked. Obama cited cybersecurity in the State of the Union. This is a real issue, and area startups and incubators are rising to the challenge.

These Howard University student musicians aren't your average buskers.

Dozens of communities across the U.S. have formed effective, ongoing partnerships with the police, improving safety and trust between residents and law enforcement.