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With all events on D.C.’s Capital One Arena schedule canceled or postponed right now due to the coronavirus pandemic, the dormant box office has found a new use: It has become a temporary sportsbook.

Members of a Northwest D.C. community are reviving an effort to remove from a fountain the name of a village founder who supported segregation.

Authorities in the District made public for the first time on Friday videos from police body cameras and surveillance cameras of two separate fatal shootings by officers in 2018, and said those cases were ruled justified in the use of…

The federal government has refused requests from jurisdictions including D.C. and Maryland to extend a food-stamp program waiver past August. This means that despite the ongoing pandemic, needy families will once again be required to prove…

At breakneck speed Brooke Pinto has gone from virtually unknown to one of only 13 DC councilmembers, who, along with the mayor, oversee the city’s $8.5 billion budget. As the dust settles on Pinto’s stunning win, questions about the…

Like other tenants of the Park View Apartments complex, David Bonilla had to move out of his apartment in January while the building was renovated. When the residents return Bonilla predicts they will likely have to pay a much higher rent,…

Catholic University will invite fewer students to campus this fall as the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the country, the school’s president announced Friday afternoon.

The box office at Capital One Arena in Washington is being transformed into a sportsbook, complete with betting windows and self-serve kiosks, and will begin taking cash bets Friday, a first for an American sports venue.

There are growing calls to bring back a popular pedestrian zone in D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Friday released footage from body-worn cameras linked to the high-profile killings by police of three Black men in 2018 — Marqueese Alston, D’Quan Young, and Jeffrey Price. Two of the incidents were fatal…

Last fall, the development team behind the conversion of the Buzzard Point Coast Guard headquarters into a mixed-use residential project applied to convert some apartments into temporary WhyHotel units. This week, the Zoning Commission…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser authorized the release of edited body camera footage from three officer-involved deaths Friday.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said Friday that people planning to attend an August rally for racial justice should follow the District’s guidance for travelers, including a self-quarantine order for visitors from coronavirus hot spots.

Dupont Circle institution Kramerbooks & Afterwords Café will remain in its current location for at least three more years — and owner Steve Salis now says it’s likely the bookstore and café will be in its Connecticut Avenue NW digs for…

Despite relaxed verification rules during the coronavirus pandemic, the family wasn't given shelter.

Men's tennis and indoor track are among the programs it will cut to help manage a $200 million shortfall.

In exclusive Chevy Chase, where Connecticut Avenue spills from Montgomery County into the District, a 60-foot sandstone fountain honors Francis G. Newlands, a U.S. senator from Nevada and the neighborhood’s founder. An inscription reads:…

The 80-foot-long boat, which is expected to make its debut next year, is part of an effort to revitalize the historical neighborhood and its one-mile stretch of the waterway.

If it feels like you can’t find a once-ubiquitous food truck in the nation’s capital these days, there’s good reason — they’ve left.

Statues are coming down and names are being changed around the country. At Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, the monolithic statue of George Preston Marshall, founder of the Washington professional football team and a segregationist, was…