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This week's release of drafted amendments to the Comprehensive Plan identify several new priorities for DC, including the need to study flood risks in certain swaths of the city. And there is one area that requires immediate attention.

Students at Anacostia High School held a vigil Friday afternoon to honor their 15-year-old classmate, Thomas Johnson, who was shot and killed just blocks away from Nationals Park the afternoon of October 9.

In the wake of last week’s shooting death of a 15-year-old Anacostia High School student near Nationals Park, some of his classmates have organized in an effort to stop gun violence and improve safety.

A D.C. Superior Court judge struck down a request for a preliminary injunction on the District's $215 million sole-source sports wagering and lottery contract with Greek gaming firm Intralot.

Paint, reconnect with your childhood self, and lose yourself in optical illusions.

For the next 10 days, interactive art and media festival 29Rooms: Expand Your Reality will take over the D.C. Armory as thousands of visitors pass through to experience 29 different installations, art exhibits, interactive events and…

Events DC’s announcement that it will raze RFK Stadium by 2021 presents it, with the National Park Service’s cooperation, the opportunity to remove the memorial to late Washington football team owner George Preston Marshall (1896-1969)…

“Welcome to our dream world,” reads a large yellow sign at the entrance of 29Rooms: Expand Your Reality. “We’ve been waiting for you.”

The General Services Administration has signed the paperwork to acquire the U.S. Department of Transportation headquarters in Capitol Riverfront from JBG Federal Center LLC for $760 million.

A 132-year-old former elementary school building in D.C.'s Shaw neighborhood will soon be given new life.

Four years after Bei Bei stole Washingtonians’ hearts, the National Zoo’s beloved giant panda is readying to depart the Smithsonian institution for China next month.

D.C. is a transient city, they warn you.

Supporters say a bill being considered by the City Council in the nation’s capital would protect prostitutes. Critics say it would be a boon to sex traffickers.

Bei Bei, one of the National Zoo’s giant pandas, is set to go to China on Nov. 19, zoo officials said Friday.

The ghost of DC Council hearings past was present at Thursday night's Zoning Commission (ZC) meeting, as the body received testimony on how the zoning code should clarify the definition of short-term rentals and where they can operate in…

Is Airbnb legal in D.C.? Well, it’s complicated.

After a groundskeeper working for the District government was robbed and fatally shot while on his lunch break last week, his father drove more than 200 miles from North Carolina to identify and claim the body.

The sun shone on Catholic Charities, literally, on Oct. 17, as Archbishop Wilton Gregory blessed a solar array being installed on five acres of the agency’s land surrounding the Missionaries of Charity’s Gift of Peace home. The array of…

MPD’s Human Trafficking Unit doesn’t make many human trafficking arrests. But officers do expose their penises to sex workers and have them undress.

A D.C. firefighter was convicted of armed robbery Wednesday after he robbed a man of sneakers last December, prosecutors said Thursday.