2019

Police have identified the three men killed in a Southeast D.C. triple homicide Saturday night.

An outbreak of violence this weekend in Washington, D.C., has left four people dead and raised the number of gun-related homicides to a total of 18 in January.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Metropolitan Police officers are searching for suspects in two separate fatal shootings Saturday in that left four men dead in Southeast and Northeast Washington.

WASHINGTON — Three men, including two sitting in a parked car, were shot to death in a quiet, residential neighborhood in Southeast D.C. and police are now seeking two suspects.

A D.C. man was arrested and charged with felony dog fighting after authorities found 12 dogs and a five-foot-long alligator at his home in Southeast.

The National Mall and Memorial Parks in D.C. will resume normal operations Sunday, The National Park Service announced Saturday. The National Zoo will reopen on Tuesday, along with other Smithsonian museums affected by the partial…

Computer repair isn’t cheap—so D.C.’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer is lending its own technicians to help residents fix their devices for free.

WASHINGTON — It can be one of the most difficult parts of life: preparing a funeral after a loved one’s passing. After finding a funeral home was taking advantage of customers, the District’s attorney general now wants the D.C. Council to…

You’ll need to wait a few more days to visit the naked mole rats or pay your respects to the grumpy naked man statue at the Hirshhorn.

Rides on the D.C. Circulator usually cost $1, but from Monday until Feb. 28, they will be free. Mayor Muriel Bowser made the announcement on Friday, saying it was part of a month-long campaign her administration is conducting called “Fair…

WASHINGTON — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives released a photo Friday of a suspect being sought in Wednesday night’s arson at the Comet Ping Pong restaurant in Northwest D.C.

Johns Hopkins University faces some heavy lifting before it will get the green light to convert the Newseum into a consolidated academic facility.

The longest government shutdown in history is expected to come to a halt Friday, with Congress on track to approve a short-term funding deal to reopen the federal government. But economists in the D.C. region say the furlough could leave a…

Johns Hopkins University, which is based in Baltimore but has real estate in D.C., plans to buy the Newseum site at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW from the foundation behind the First Amendment-focused museum—the Freedom Forum—for a whopping…

Councilmember Charles Allen rejected Mayor Muriel Bowser's two picks to sit on the D.C. Board of Ethics and Government Accountability (BEGA) earlier this month. The five-member board responsible for investigating alleged ethics violations…

In an Oct. 2 news release, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced a proposal for mixed-use development in Ward 8, the city’s most impoverished community, located east of the Anacostia River. The ambitious project, Bowser stated, would be…

Attendees of a D.C. Council breakfast on January 7 could’ve heard a pin drop as Chairman Phil Mendelson moved to wrap things up and begin the legislative session.

You may remember local writer and street artist Theodore Carter by his guerilla art installation #100DucksDC. His newest venture “Night of 1,000 Fridas” is set to launch tonight—an expansive, global tribute to the visionary Mexican artist.…

With the 116th Congress underway, D.C. residents are committed to ensuring that the House of Representatives takes up and passes H.R. 51, the D.C. statehood bill. Residents are under no illusion that the Senate will do the same or that the…

A proposed solar array would deliver power to the people of Ward 8.