August 2020

Curtis Justin Hillyer drew his last breath at 3 p.m. on Aug. 5, 1906, on a southbound train returning to Washington from Nova Scotia. The 78-year-old lawyer had traveled to the Canadian province for his health, but had told his son he…

A day after Carmen Garner drove across the Washington region to visit five boys at their homes, he is still thinking of the walk to one child’s front door.

Two protesters outside a Planned Parenthood facility were arrested and charged with defacing public or private property early Saturday, according to D.C. police and video footage.

The region’s top transportation board has endorsed a proposal for a network of trails stretching across the greater Washington region, from Frederick, Md., to Prince William County, Va., that would expand the amount of off-road bicycle and…

Donations to World Central Kitchen have evaporated. Food security services that the chef’s nonprofit offered to entire cities, like Atlanta, have ended altogether.

With all events on D.C.’s Capital One Arena schedule canceled or postponed right now due to the coronavirus pandemic, the dormant box office has found a new use: It has become a temporary sportsbook.

Members of a Northwest D.C. community are reviving an effort to remove from a fountain the name of a village founder who supported segregation.

Authorities in the District made public for the first time on Friday videos from police body cameras and surveillance cameras of two separate fatal shootings by officers in 2018, and said those cases were ruled justified in the use of…

The federal government has refused requests from jurisdictions including D.C. and Maryland to extend a food-stamp program waiver past August. This means that despite the ongoing pandemic, needy families will once again be required to prove…