2018

THOMAS HOLLOWELL, 64, was riding his bicycle on Constitution Avenue NW when a driver ran a red light, hitting and killing him. Carol Joan Tomason, 70, was in a marked crosswalk when she was struck and killed by the driver of a pickup truck.…

With traffic fatalities climbing for the past several years in a row, the District’s Department of Transportation is changing the way that drivers make turns at dozens of intersections around the city in an effort to improve safety for…

No plans for New Year’s Day? Espionage aficionados might want to stop by the International Spy Museum in Penn Quarter, which will host its final round of visitors in its original location before closing for a move to a new building.

In one of his most recent arguments for a southern border wall, President Trump on Sunday falsely claimed that the Washington home of former president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama is surrounded by a 10-foot wall.

Happy New Year’s Eve! In 2019, statehood will remain a long shot, but here is a menu of smaller and symbolic achievements the city hopes to gain with Democratic control of the House:

Raymond Riley got his first car at the dawn of the century. It was an old Volvo. His dad’s friend was a master mechanic and came over to help revive the turbo station wagon.

Robert Holman was dutifully rotating through surgical training at Georgetown University on a path to follow his father when the medical passion that would drive his career crystallized in his mind.

It was nearly 8 p.m. when D.C.’s new director of nightlife and culture dashed into a Starbucks south of Dupont Circle.

If the D.C. Council makes a New Year’s resolution , let’s hope it will resolve to perform more aggressive oversight of the D.C. Public Schools and to hold school leaders to account.

Statehood for the District is likely to remain out of reach as long as Republicans hold the majority in the Senate, despite Democratic control of the House in the new Congress.

D.C. police on Friday arrested a suspect in the October killing of a 22-year-old man who authorities believe was struck by a stray bullet while sitting in his Jeep at a traffic light in Northeast Washington.

WASHINGTON — D.C. police have announced that suspects have been arrested in two cases in the District where bystanders were shot and killed by stray bullets — one from October, another from 2016.

As of December 28, 159 people had been murdered in the District in 2018, a significant uptick in homicides. In fact it’s a 39 percent increase over last year, when there were 114 homicides total in the city, according to data from the…

In 1917 the great musician Duke Ellington and his band earned $100 per night entertaining audiences on U St. in Washington, D.C.  By today’s standards that would equate to $2000 which would cover paying the band, the venue, and himself.  It…