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Erin Palmer, an advisory neighborhood commissioner in Ward 4, announced she is running to become chairwoman of the D.C. Council.

If you’ve got to call a guy about a thing, you’d better hurry — only half a dozen payphones remain on the streets of D.C.

Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Monday that the District will extend its ticket amnesty program, which allows drivers behind on outstanding parking, speeding, red light, and other tickets to pay only the initial fine without the additional…

'70s-era cars littered the streets and a Nixon campaign headquarters was recreated

The number of students, staff and faculty sickened by a suspected norovirus outbreak on the Georgetown campus now stands at 130, the university said Monday morning.

Eyob “Joe” Mamo, the D.C. gas station magnate and real estate developer whose various ventures have been met with controversy over the last few decades, is buying a stake in D.C. United.

D.C. is extending its amnesty program for drivers with overdue tickets until the end of the year, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Monday.

Since the program began in June, more than 32,000 people have paid $44 million in fines without facing late fees

A local realtor association and a nonprofit recently cemented a three-year partnership to support low-income residents in the D.C. metro region seeking to own their own homes.

Walking into Christopher Stewart’s classroom at Johnson Middle School feels less like stepping into a library, and more like entering a sunlit coffee shop. Windows out to a courtyard completely line the back wall, across from a wall of…

"We hire on personality and train for the rest. As long as they care about what we’re doing and are friendly, they can work here."

The children will never recover from what happened inside a D.C. apartment. The owner of the illegal gun faces far less serious consequences.

Why it matters: The District’s spike in gun violence is being linked partly to rundown properties that city officials and residents say have become magnets for criminal activity.

Just over 100 residents of four D.C. homeless encampments will be offered one-year housing leases as part of a pilot program, said Wayne Turnage, Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services at a public meeting on Wednesday night.

The District is preparing to embark on an unprecedented effort to combat homelessness.

The growing number of Georgetown students and staff dealing with a gastrointestinal illness this week appear to have come down with a case of norovirus.

Back in March 2020, when American children were sent home to learn virtually, Jovan Davis Jr. was a fifth grader, still shy of 5-feet tall and just learning how to write full paragraphs.

When we listen to a recording of an old song — say, the D.C. nightclub semi-fixture Eva Foster singing “You’ll Never Know” roughly 68 years ago — something excellent happens: the air that surrounds us shakes the same way it shook in 1953.…

For her acclaimed new book, Morowa Yejidé painstakingly built a portrait of a vanished city’s overlooked Black community

When friends ask Christian Di Nicolantonio about the sport he competes in for Catholic University, he tells them, “It’s the one with the big stick at the Olympics.” To most folks, that’s likely the extent of their understanding of pole…