This week on Get Out There, we're exploring D.C. while saving a few bucks.

Parkour combines elements of gymnastics and martial arts. It uses the urban environment as a kind of playground, with athletes balancing on handrails, flipping off structures, and bouncing off walls.

At the end of May, I accompanied a group of tandem (two person) cyclists with the Metropolitan Washington Association for Blind Athletes, (MWABA) on a biking and camping trip. MWABA connects visually ...

This week for Get Out There, we're scoring some summer restaurant deals.

NPR correspondents join host Steve Inskeep to give the first presidential debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney a "close read." Our team provides analysis and checks out the candidates' ...

As hundreds of public radio and television stations brace for federal funding cuts, WAMU's leadership says the station has operated as a fixture in Washington D.C. for 64 years and will continue its ...

Rising sea level. Hotter days. Unpredictable weather — how climate change is playing out in the region.

We go inside an innovative partnership between a health clinic and a school that aims to create healthier, more resilient communities in the nation's capital.

Despite wanting to see the D.C. General family homeless shelter closed, some homeless advocates say Mayor Muriel Bowser's plan to do so this year could cause more problems than it solves.

D.C. now has 14 electric buses – the largest electric fleet on the East Coast. They’ll be spread out on the six Circulator routes, starting operation May 1.

Evidence is growing that a pre-Civil War African American burial ground is buried beneath a historic street full of million-dollar townhouses. But that's just one theory.

The employee has also been placed on administrative leave and denies any connections to the alt-right.