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On Saturday, Marquett Milton stood in the shade of a tree at Fort Stevens Park at Georgia and Quackenbos NW. He was dressed in the uniform of a Union soldier: blue trousers, dark blue wool jacket over a white shirt, a bandolier slung over…

Only 29 percent of respondents say they support making the District a state

The District's conventions and sports authority continues to put money into the St. Elizabeths East Entertainment & Sports Arena nearly a year after the venue opened.

Dozens of activists gathered in protest outside the upper Northwest home of Mayor Muriel Bowser on Saturday, chanting “bounce Bowser” and “shame.” A large banner summarized their opposition to a number of the mayor’s positions, reading…

A group of deaf and hard-of-hearing cinema buffs have been pushing for legislation that would require movie theaters in the District to play a certain number of films weekly with open captions.

After time-consuming repairs, the District Department of Transportation reopened Canal Road between Reservoir and Foxhall roads late Monday morning.

As Beijing faced international criticism for its continued crackdown on Uighurs and other minorities in the Xinjiang region over recent days, a Chinese diplomat based in Pakistan responded by highlighting what he called racial segregation…

Happy Monday. In Gallup's first-ever national poll on DC statehood, 64% oppose the idea, according to results released today.

A front-page article helped incite the violence in the nation’s capital that left as many as 39 dead

Nearly two-thirds of Americans do not support adding the District of Columbia as the 51st state of the union, a new poll released Monday found.

In increasingly expensive D.C., about twenty percent of residents in Wards 7 and 8 anticipate being unable to afford their home and needing to move in the next three years.

Neighborhood lemonade stands are the ultimate symbol of American entrepreneurship and have become a pipeline for young entrepreneurs. Early age entrepreneurship helps our youth learn business skills, responsibility, financial literacy,…

The three-year reconstruction of Beach Drive nears completion, and drivers are speeding their way through it

Every Democrat running for president in 2020 has come out in favor of making Washington, D.C., the nation’s 51st state. But a new Gallup poll found support for granting full statehood to D.C. as low as ever — across the political spectrum.…

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans are much more likely to oppose (64%) than to favor (29%) making Washington, D.C., a separate state. These results are consistent with past polling on the topic by other firms, which also found majorities…

It’s a historic year for D.C. statehood: a bill that would make D.C. the 51st state has a record-breaking number of sponsors and co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, and the lower chamber has scheduled a hearing on the measure for…

If residents of Wards 2 and 3 don't want more dense development in their neighborhoods, maybe they should build an accessory dwelling unit in their backyard.

The number has actually gone up since 1989.

The shift is intended to avoid a conflict with the Mueller hearing

D.C. emergency officials have been trying to reduce the number of ambulance rides for patients who don’t need them by diverting patients to clinics and rideshares instead. But over a year into the initiative, there’s still a long way to go…