On the first day of the third decade of the 21st century, Nolan Williams Jr. stood beneath the silver-rimmed portrait of his late father and raised one palm for silence.
The District saw a record number of killings in 2019 with 166 homicides, a 4% increase over 2018, according to data released by D.C. police. This continues an upward trend since 2017 when D.C. police recorded 116 homicides.
The District ended 2019 with the highest number of homicides recorded in a decade, continuing an upward trend in killings fueled by what authorities say is a proliferation of the use of firearms to resolve disputes.
Commercial real estate owners looking to avoid an increase in deal costs yielded the D.C. government an extra $50.5 million in deed recordation and transfer taxes for the final month of the District's 2019 fiscal year.
A newly proposed development in D.C.'s Mount Pleasant neighborhood would replace a laundromat with a new residential-over-retail building fit snugly into a tight space.
I spent some time recently getting to know the panhandlers I encounter the most — Ed and Leann, who work in the traffic at Third and M streets in Northwest Washington.
Let’s face it: The story of the year in D.C. politics and government–certainly in District Dig–was the collapse of the decades-long reign of Jack Evans.
A principal at a public elementary school in the District said the school was wrong to conduct a lesson about slavery in which fifth-grade students were asked to take part in a simulation of enslavement.
Hate-crime prosecutions rose in the District in 2019 after plummeting to their lowest point in at least a decade, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.
Smoke in the first-floor apartment was so thick that firefighter Ralph Thompson could not see the faces of the man and woman inside, inches from his own.