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Republicans are unified in their opposition.

As crowds of people packed inside the Rayburn House Office Building for Thursday’s hearing on DC statehood, an overflow crowd of more than 100 people watched it on a giant TV screen outside in a neighboring park.

Whether it's a yes because of voting rights or no because of corruption, locals at the DC statehood hearing share their own opinions on the bill.

The first congressional hearing in more than 25 years on whether D.C. should become the nation’s 51st state began Thursday with supporters claiming that the proposal has more support than it has had in a generation.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) spared no effort this week in using the D.C. statehood hearing as a way to put herself in the spotlight as a champion of the cause.

"I know as a company that’s not what we’re about," says owner Devin Gong.

Jazmyne Wade has been visiting the lowlit bar Copycat Co. on H Street NE with friends and co-workers since it opened in 2014. At one point, she had become such a regular that she decided to limit her visits because she was spending so much…

U.S. lawmakers on Thursday held the first hearing on D.C. statehood since 1991. Here is what you need to know:

A bartender called a patron "ugly," "black," and "a bitch." That bartender has been fired.

The first U.S. House hearing on D.C. statehood in a generation ended just as it began: with the nation’s capital no closer to becoming the 51st state.

The hearing was over three hours long. Here’s what you need to know.

We’re finally getting more details on the Hakan Ilhan-owned restaurant that will replace the former Morton’s The Steakhouse restaurant on Prospect Street NW in Georgetown.

They will demonstrate at one of the city’s most dangerous intersections

It’s that time of year again: PARK(ing) Day, an annual event that makes the District come alive with decorative pop-up parks in parking spaces, returns from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 20.

The case for DC statehood is one that has been well-documented over the last decade. But with the first House of Representatives hearing on DC Statehood since 1993 in recess, UrbanTurf decided to take a look at some of the arguments being…

While Democrats at the D.C. statehood hearing sought to make the proceedings about the more than 700,000 District residents without full voting rights, Republicans on the Oversight Committee were interested in focusing it on a handful of…

With action around climate change planned for Friday and next week, here’s what the D.C. area can expect, in terms of traffic and responses from local school systems.

Callie Stapp can literally see the impact of climate change on her office walls. Stapp is the curator of collections for Gadsby’s Tavern Museum, a historic 18th-century brick and wood building in Alexandria. “When the boards move and pop…

The eight majestic willow oaks flourished for decades. Kids played hide-and-seek among their trunks. They shaded nearly a hundred years of first kisses, long talks and lazy afternoons. And they were the silent witnesses to the drug deals,…