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More than 100 people attended a memorial service Wednesday for former WTOP political analyst and forceful D.C. statehood advocate Mark Plotkin, who died last month at 72.

D.C. activists and government officials are ramping up efforts to make the District the 51st state, trying to continue momentum for the movement two months after the first congressional hearing on the issue in 30 years.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said Wednesday that she hasn’t read the findings of an ethics investigation of D.C. Council member Jack Evans that has sent shock waves through the Wilson Building and prompted a growing number of lawmakers…

The D.C. Council has passed legislation that expands the rights of sexual assault victims.

Restaurateur Hakan Ilhan's first foray in Georgetown, Brasserie Liberté will open Nov. 15 for lunch and dinner in Georgetown.

The electric blue slide at the Kennedy Recreation Center playground was a beloved piece of equipment for kids in the Shaw neighborhood. Now it’s simply a broken down, dangerous pile of plastic and bolts boarded up with wooden planks.

Baltimore Chef Spike Gjerde, who made his way down to Washington in 2018 with a fine dining restaurant in the Line D.C. hotel, plans to establish a much bigger footprint in the District with a new restaurant and separate 20,000-square-foot…

The dangerous intersection at New York and Florida Avenues NE continues to threaten the safety of pedestrians and cyclists despite planned construction to provide a safer roadway.

Official complaint filed over worn turf.

Some District residents qualify for financial assistance from the city to cover part or all of the cost of replacing their lead water pipes under a new program aimed at completing lead service line replacements in about 12,000 homes.

Dozens of the city’s schools have been modernized over the past decade-plus

The fallout from Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans’ ethics scandal continues in the form of new legislation that would ban all councilmembers from holding down second jobs. Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie announced that he was…

D.C. is preparing for what the Farmer’s Almanac says will be a “Polar Coaster.”

The D.C. Council unanimously approved legislation that expands the rights of sexual assault survivors on Tuesday.

Law firms in D.C. continue to abandon their traditional style of office in favor of more open, collaborative workspaces, with the latest moving from the East End to Dupont Circle.

The Post's union recommends a number of steps to achieve pay parity at the news organization

On a clear blue November day, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium still stands silently on the shores of the Anacostia. As paint peels away and rust threatens to become the dominant color, the one-time premier sports venue on East Capitol…

She’s probably sleeping. Terrina Riley remembers a hospital nurse offering her that reassurance after she noticed the normally active baby in her belly had stopped moving. As Riley tells it, she was seven months pregnant and had already…

Tuesday was a big day down at the D.C. Council. A long-awaited investigation into Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) found 11 cases over the last five years where he voted or took other official actions on behalf of paying clients of…

Goodbye, Bei Bei. The giant panda at the National Zoo has a slew of events scheduled online and in-person as the nation’s capital says goodbye to its black-and-white, fuzzy friend before it heads to China.