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San Francisco-based Neapolitan-style pizzeria Mozzeria, one of few deaf-owned businesses in the U.S., is opening a location on H Street in Northeast D.C. Sept. 4, not far from Gallaudet University.

Shattering the otherwise scorching quiet of summer in D.C., dozens and sometimes hundreds of illegal off-road vehicles have taken to swarming the capital city’s residential neighborhoods each weekend to torment and terrify local families…

Alice Carter worked and got worked over by D.C.’s streets.

D.C. Council Member Trayon White held a virtual community safety meeting Thursday night to talk about hard truths and what is being done to mitigate violence in communities east of the Anacostia River.

A D.C. government committee caused quite a stir this week when it released a report calling for the city to reassess the many historical figures whose names grace Washington’s public properties.

When Amy Bormet was launching the Washington Women in Jazz Festival in 2011, she approached venues all over the District, hoping to book five nights in March.

Why didn’t I just raise my fist?

The District’s fire chief, Gregory Dean, who was hired five years ago to lead a department marred by a series of high-profile failures, has decided to retire, D.C. Fire spokesman Doug Buchanan confirmed Thursday evening.

D.C.’s Fire and EMS Chief Gregory Dean is retiring.

LESS THAN 24 hours after a young Black man was fatally shot by a D.C. police officer in Southeast Washington, officials on Thursday made public the body-camera footage of the deadly encounter.

A D.C. police officer who fatally shot a young man Wednesday afternoon in Southeast Washington fired once after seeing the 18-year-old turn while holding a gun with his right hand, according to body-camera video made public Thursday.

The top federal prosecutor in D.C. on Thursday sought to de-escalate a burgeoning feud with city officials over arrests of anti-racism demonstrators, retreating from his suggestion days earlier that local police had taken people into…

A new survey found that one in four adults with children in the District say they can’t afford enough food for their children and one in 10 adults in rental housing say they are behind on their rent.

Mayor Fears 'Race War' as Outside Agitators Fuel Nationwide Fires

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said President Donald Trump’s latest threat to cut federal dollars for certain big cities is aimed at spurring them to do more to quell violence, but local leaders dismissed it Thursday as a political…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Police in the nation’s capital on Thursday released body camera footage from the officer who fatally shot a Black teenager a day earlier, leading to protests outside Mayor Muriel Bowser’s home and a police station.

He helped found and then led Groundwork Anacostia River DC.

Gregory Dean announced his retirement Thursday, after five years as Chief of the D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department. Dean was appointed by Mayor Muriel Bowser in 2015 to lead the 2,100-member department.

A blog post attributed to a history professor at George Washington University stated that she had assumed a Black identity for much of her career, despite being White.

A new project by a California-based sociologist examines how certain D.C. neighborhoods have gentrified over time, relying in part on a perhaps-unorthodox tool for such a task: Google Street View.