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A D.C. federal court late Friday granted permission for a large D.C. church to hold outdoor worship services, saying the city’s coronavirus restrictions banning church services of more than 100 people — indoors or out — appear to violate…

The same year that an advocacy campaign began to push for a stand-alone Latino museum on the Mall, these three things occurred: The final episode of “Friends” aired. Janet Jackson’s exposed breast turned the Super Bowl into a controversial…

A police officer has filed a complaint against the Metropolitan Police Department, alleging professional retaliation for speaking up about discriminatory policing practices.

The D.C. government offered free coronavirus testing in front of the White House on Friday, as the number of COVID-19 cases connected to the Trump administration grows.

The dozens of protesters waited outside School Without Walls at Francis Stevens in Northwest Washington, chanting, holding signs and demanding to know why the school system abruptly removed their principal.

The kids are not all right. Neither are their teachers, nor their families. Children are about to become victims of a lethal combination: pressure on local leaders to reopen schools, a shortage of necessary testing capacity, and…

The D.C. government on Friday set up a free coronavirus testing site outside the White House in response to the growing number of confirmed cases linked to the Trump administration.

The veteran white tablecloth restaurant plans to reopen in the spring with a new look and menu.

Classes at George Washington University will remain mostly online for the spring semester, university officials announced Friday.

“They just got put out.” Scary words heard more than 70 years ago by a kid growing up in the now exquisitely gentrified Foggy Bottom-West End area of Northwest D.C., which is separated from Georgetown by Rock Creek Park. “They just got put…

For D.C. Board of Elections Chair D. Michael Bennett, the presidential voting underway in the nation’s capital is a chance at redemption.

After a seven-month closure because of coronavirus precautions, Ford’s Theatre and Museum will begin a phased reopening Wednesday, the Ford’s Theatre Society and the National Park Service announced Friday.

The Christopher Columbus Memorial Fountain that fronts Union Station is broken. Not only because its plumbing stopped functioning years ago, or because it has been in disrepair since then — but also because its wretched symbolism is being…

Over the summer, the planned D.C. streetcar extension into Ward 7 nearly lost funding. An initiative to defund the project was defeated in an 8-to-5 vote in the D.C. Council. With one of the streetcar’s supporters vacating his council seat…

It had been six months since her last volunteer shift educating D.C. residents on the importance of filling out the 2020 Census and Arnesia Davis had yet to complete it herself.

Victorine Mbazang proudly stands in a sea of green fruit and vegetable plants at her plot at Blair Road Community Garden in Northwest Washington’s Manor Park.

Fabian Tinsley as an inmate at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, N.C., nearing the end of his sentence for armed kidnapping and assault.

The sudden firing of a popular D.C. principal one month before the District’s schools are planning to reopen has galvanized not just the principal's own community, but schools across the District. From Northwest to Southeast, parents and…

Only one thing has united D.C. residents as much as a national trophy from the Nats, Mystics or Caps.

Tedi, the horse, was upset. He was a 10-year veteran of the U.S. Park Police mounted unit. He had spent a decade of hot summer days on the Mall, cold winters on the streets, and time in the shabby stables off Independence Avenue.