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Sharron Brown, a 61-year-old unsheltered resident of Virginia and 25th street encampment, has had to call police on multiple occasions to break up fights or ward off intruders near her tent.

In June 2020, the D.C. Council voted to reduce the police budget by $15 million, which limited the hiring of new D.C. police officers. The council promised that those funds would then be reallocated to alternative, non-police responses.…

At least two dozen residents in Petworth had their air conditioning units, appliances, or light fixtures blown out after a Pepco electric project sparked a power surge on Wednesday morning.

D.C. tomorrow celebrates Emancipation Day, the 160th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln signing a bill ending slavery and freeing over 3,100 enslaved people in the nation's capital.

Losing out on matching funds could be a major problem for White as he seeks to keep pace with his rivals.

In a pattern that has been repeated for more than two years, coronavirus cases are rising again in the D.C. region and nationwide, after a brief respite with some of the lowest rates of virus circulation of the pandemic.

The railroad said the move is necessary to upgrade the nation’s second-busiest train hub

Amid an uptick in COVID-19 cases that includes the mayor and other political VIPs, the number of new coronavirus cases in D.C. tipped over the line into “medium” territory this week for the first time since late January, according to…

Open Streets festivals are back in 2022, kicking off with a smaller event in Anacostia in May and a longer stretch of road closing in Shaw in June.

A federal investigation into Jack Evans, a former member of the D.C. Council, has ended without any criminal charges, according to an attorney for Evans.

Howard University President Wayne Frederick, fresh off the announcement of his eventual retirement, said during his state of the university address Thursday that his successor will take the school's financial goals to the next level when…

Marie Cohen spends a lot of her time on children’s deaths.

An all-night party in Northeast D.C. aims to provide teens with a fun, safe night that keeps them out of trouble.

It’s taken work, but these days, D.C. has one of the lowest infant mortality rates in years. But dig deeper, and you’ll see a stark racial disparity still exists.

When DeNisha and her boyfriend moved into the Park 7 apartments on Minnesota Ave NE, she was only days away from giving birth to her first child. It was March 2020, and the young family was scrambling to settle into their new home as…

Former WBJ reporter and current Loose Lips Alex Koma is also named in the suit.

Howard University moved many classes online amid a rise in COVID-19 infections both on campus and D.C. Multiple local universities have taken extra cautions as the BA.2 omicron subvariant fuels another uptick in cases.

The harassment of a transgender woman named Saoirse Gowan on the Metro this past weekend is part of an uptick in harassment and other crimes against trans and the greater LGBTQ+ community in the past year, according to D.C. community…

Howard University will move its final days of class online amid a rise in COVID-19 cases on campus.

D.C.’s Howard University is moving some classes online as the semester comes to a close and COVID-19 cases on campus and in the District tick up.