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D.C. police announced in a statement on Thursday that Acting Lt. Brett Parson, the openly gay cop who has served for many years as head of the department’s LGBT Liaison Unit and currently serves as supervisor of the Special Liaison Branch…

Lt. David Hong will succeed Parson as SLB supervisor, which oversees MPD's LGBT Liaison Unit

Marcus Goodwin, a 30-year-old real estate developer, just joined a slew of other candidates running to fill David Grosso’s at-large seat on the D.C. Council.

At 9:45 a.m., Michael Harris finally asked for help.

As the wind picked up Thursday morning, the District government had a message for those living in tents beneath a railroad underpass near Union Station: Whatever had brought them there, and wherever they were headed, it was time to go.

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HLT) launched a new lifestyle brand Thursday with as many as 60 hotels in the pipeline, including in D.C.

A push to unwind the D.C. Housing Authority’s redevelopment plans for its NoMa headquarters narrowly failed Thursday, leaving a long-awaited deal with several local prominent developers in place.

A coalition of 14 states along with Washington, D.C., and New York City sued Thursday to block the Trump administration from cutting off food stamp benefits from nearly 700,000 unemployed people, the first of three such planned measures to…

The D.C. Attorney General’s Office has reached its largest-ever settlement in a wage theft case, the office announced on Wednesday.

As several new retail spots open around town, the art-sales scene has changed significantly.

Director Ona Balkus talks closing the grocery gap, improving food jobs, and supporting urban agriculture.

Enrollment and scores are up, but achievement gaps are widening and not all students have access to top performing schools.

A D.C. boy traveled to the Mexican border city of Matamoros this week to help migrants who are living in a camp.

City Paper asked those who deal with homicides and their aftermaths every day, whether as part of their jobs or volunteer work or their personal lives.

On July 1, D.C.’s long-awaited paid family leave law will take effect, giving hundreds of thousands of private-sector workers in the city up to eight weeks of paid time off to care for a newborn child, six weeks to attend to a sick family…

The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club voted unanimously Monday night to urge D.C. Council member Brandon Todd (D-Ward 4) and members of the Council committee he chairs to hold a hearing on a bill calling for anti-discrimination protections…

The District is proposing transferring management of Duke Ellington Field in Georgetown from D.C. Public Schools to the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation.

Washington, D.C.'s fire department says it is investigating after a photo circulating on social media shows recruits displaying a hand gesture that can be associated with white supremacy.

About a dozen former inmates sat around a meeting room table in Ward 1 last week, expecting a city official to tell them about programs to help them reenter society now that they have been released from jail or prison. But Lamont Carey…