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The family of a driver who died in a crash with a speeding fire truck is suing D.C.’s Fire and Emergency Medical Services department.

The D.C. area is used to earning high marks on health ranking reports, but when it comes to the health of the air, the region is failing.

Once a government town, DC is now home to extreme wealth. Who the billionaires are, how they live, and what it means for the rest of us.

The walls will display protest buttons and King-related items as individual dots that form a bigger image

A crash that killed a cyclist over the weekend on Florida Avenue NE in D.C. is spurring new consideration for the road.

Employees at a D.C. charter school are attempting to unionize, a rare move that would make the 115 teachers and staff members the biggest union of charter school workers to ever form in the District.

The health department temporarily closed the carryout for not having a restroom within 500 feet

Drivers struck and killed a cycling activist and a pedestrian over Easter weekend.

"They gave us from Thursday up until Monday on a holiday weekend, Easter weekend, to remedy the situation."

Wards 7 and 8 have more than 150,000 residents, and only three of the city’s 49 grocery stores. (For comparison, Ward 7 has just as many grocery stores—two—as a 0.1 mile stretch of Columbia Heights.)

Under D.C. law, every student in the city’s public or public charter schools must be offered free breakfast. But a new report from the nonprofit advocacy group D.C. Hunger Solutions found that while D.C. Public Schools are close to…

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is already fielding requests from people who want to attend next year’s Antiracist Book Festival.

Under new changes, fines for housing code violations would be levied more quickly than now

The latest round of deaths on D.C. roads is prompting a renewed push for safety changes from the D.C. Council.

Spring has sprung rapidly this year in Washington. Snow is history, and greenery has exploded, overwhelming the cold, bleak landscape in just a few weeks.

The pièce de résistance inside one of Christian Zapatka’s recent home renovations isn’t a large-scale painting or an ornate lighting fixture. The highlight is a continual wall of floor-to-ceiling steel and glass windows that separate the…

As part of DC's Department of Housing and Community Development's (DHCD) commitment to clear its backlog of vacant properties, the agency is preparing for another online auction.

The mother of a classmate remembered him as “an extremely artistic, sensitive, brilliant and thoughtful child.” A neighbor on his street in Northwest Washington said he expected the boy “to grow up and cure cancer or become secretary…

IN THE past two years, there have been five different proposals affecting the commercial tax rate in the District. Two became law, and if the D.C. Council goes along with Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s plans for a higher rate to fund next year’s…

Beautiful weather and a trifecta of celebrations drew a crowd to the National Zoo on Monday.