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Houston, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Memphis, and Atlanta have one thing in common. They've all hosted a Black Restaurant Week to highlight black culinary and bar talent as well as black-owned restaurants. This fall, D.C. joins the movement…

An operator at the District’s 911 center failed to send police Monday afternoon when a parent at an elementary school in Northwest Washington called to report a man outside the building threatening to shoot, according to a city spokeswoman.

The crew from Wellington Park had been planning a drive-by shooting in rival Clay Terrace turf for weeks, police say, even buying a stolen car to use. On the afternoon of July 16, it was time to recruit some gunmen.

“Our office is reviewing the findings of the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s report and we will consider taking action if appropriate.”

Mayor Muriel Bowser tweeted a most intriguing question on Monday: “What qualities do want in your @dcpublicschools Chancellor? Let us know at tomorrow’s @OurSchoolsDC Chancellor Search Engagement Forum.”

One-hundred years ago, on Aug. 31, 1918, Congress preserved a stretch of land along the Anacostia River as a national park. On Friday and Saturday, to mark the centennial of that event and highlight Anacostia Park’s offerings, the National…

WASHINGTON — They’re naked, buck-toothed and nearly blind, but that isn’t stopping a colony of 17 naked mole-rats from trying to take the internet by storm at the Smithsonian National Zoo.

Officials from the General Services Administration may have misled Congress about the White House’s role in canceling a decade-long search for a new FBI headquarters campus in the Washington suburbs last year, according to a government…

If you've got 5,600 freshwater mussels, you could serve about 280 steaming plates of moules marinières. Or, you could deposit the bivalves in the Anacostia River. The Anacostia Watershed Society has opted for the latter as part of a larger…

Property Group Partners is gearing up to deliver nearly 1M SF of trophy office at Capitol Crossing, its $1.3B megaproject being constructed on a deck above Interstate 395, but less than 10% of that space is leased. In an interview with…

City leaders plan to hold a ceremonial groundbreaking for new multipurpose recreational fields at the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium campus on Wednesday as the inaugural piece of the sports complex’s $489 million redevelopment.

Early Monday morning, Wikipedia blocked Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans for the third time for making continuous changes to his own Wikipedia page.

The inspection was part of a city-wide review of the 56 DC Housing Authority properties that about 20,000 D.C. residents call home.

District Properties, a D.C. developer that primarily builds single-family homes, is planning its largest multifamily property to date. The company acquired a property at 22-24 Kennedy St. NW for $4.8M from The Menkiti Group in a deal posted…

A second suspect has turned himself in to authorities in the fatal shooting of 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson, who died in a barrage of 70 bullets fired into a courtyard in July as she went to buy ice cream.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) often touts her administration’s immigrant legal-aid fund when activists say she hasn’t done enough to protect undocumented residents from President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

The Kennedy Center will reopen the primary entrances to its parking garage this fall as part of a larger upgrade to its parking services. The southern entrances to the 2,000-space garage have been closed for nearly three years during…

Police have arrested one of four suspected gunmen in the fatal shooting of 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson, who died in a barrage of 70 bullets fired into a courtyard as she went to buy ice cream, the District’s police chief and mayor announced…

Back-to-school week is always a reminder of just how unpleasant traveling in our city can be. In late August each year, the street next to my neighborhood school fills with honking and yelling in the morning as a few hundred anxious parents…

One thing you don’t see in Polish cities — at least not in Warsaw, Lodz and Krakow, certainly not if you’re visiting as a guest of the foreign ministry — is many homeless people. National estimates have varied widely in the past decade,…