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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, meet businessman Willem Polak, chairman of the Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena. Sports and entertainment mogul Ted Leonsis, reacquaint yourself with Miss Bowser. Waiter, iced tea — all around.

A proposal to force charter schools to post more information to their websites has exposed a long-simmering debate in the District: Should traditional public schools and charter schools have to follow the same rules?

The argument allegedly began over a bottle of bath soap and ended with Elaine Rigas’s then-husband lunging at her throat. As she held their 1-year-old son in a bathtub, Rigas said, she feared that the man would strangle her to death.

It’s just after 10 p.m. on Sunday night, and a crowd of people is squished against the bar at Plaza Azteca, a Mexican restaurant in Bethesda, straining to hear the politician beginning his speech at a news conference more than 3,000 miles…

The nation’s capital is now peak hockeytown, right?

The District of Columbia’s haste to get into sports betting is a sickening spectacle.

Washington, DC will invest $6 million in workforce development and violence prevention, with $4 million of that money going to the DC Infrastructure Academy, and the remaining $2 million going to the Cure The Streets initiative, designed…

Lots of rain and wild temperature swings have created big pothole problems in the District.

The Washington Capitals, team owner Ted Leonsis, and the NHL kicked off a half-a-million-dollar fundraising campaign over the weekend—to which they collectively gave $300,000—to help pay for a modernization and expansion of the Fort Dupont…

Despite D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s (D) claim, there is no reason for the District to take funds already appropriated to build a new ice rink at Fort Dupont Ice Arena to address school repairs.

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - The O Street Mansion has a rich history that is woven into the fabric of the District, but the significant impact it had in helping Rosa Parks is a story many do not know.

What do you see when you look at Marilyn Monroe gazing down at the corner of Connecticut and Calvert streets NW? A beautiful woman? A movie star? An icon?

Leading congressional Republicans demanded Monday that an internal government watchdog who had issued a critical report related to President Trump’s luxury hotel in the District produce reams of documents to support her conclusions.

When Humane Rescue Alliance launched a program to connect un-adoptable cats with local businesses — which they’d protect from rodents in exchange for food and shelter — the D.C. animal rescue group wasn’t sure what to expect.

Aldi has agreed to open a 25,000-square-foot store at Art Place at Fort Totten, the Cafritz Foundation's redevelopment of the Riggs Plaza apartment complex at South Dakota Avenue and Kennedy Street NE.

The hundreds of thousands of visitors who come to "America’s Main Street" to see the Newseum's monument to the First Amendment, the row of daily newspaper front pages and its historical exhibits will soon need to travel elsewhere, a…

"We won't be all things to all people all the time," says Paul Wiedefeld.

WASHINGTON — Fewer home sellers nationwide got more than their asking price last year, but that was not the case in the D.C. area.

It’s happened at stuffy law firms, in dreary hospital rooms, at busy beauty salons, in the hallway of the U.S. Capitol, even once, memorably, at a police station. Four tuxedo-clad men arrive, rose in hand, and begin to croon.