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Teachers and staff at Barnard Elementary School are raising money for a nine-year-old boy who died after a fire consumed an unlicensed rental property in Brightwood more than a week ago.

The team behind the popular D.C. burger joint Duke’s Grocery is bringing Korean barbecue to Shaw.

Almost 24 million tourists visited the District last year, the city’s official marketing organization said Tuesday — the ninth consecutive record year for the city, even as the number of foreign visitors fell.

The District saw a 5.3% drop in the number of visitors from overseas in 2018, spurred largely by a sharp reduction in the number of Chinese visitors, Destination D.C. said Tuesday.

A lot of residential development is quietly humming along in the Deanwood, Lincoln Heights and Kenilworth neighborhoods where older public housing stock is being replaced with build-first mixed-use communities. Today, UrbanTurf turns our…

Life hasn’t been the same for Van Hayes since he stopped calling bingo games.

At least one scooter company is taking steps to try to decrease the clutter that comes from dockless vehicles being left wherever a rider feels like it.

Parents searching for child care centers in Washington, D.C., have limited information about major incidents, inspections and license suspensions compared to parents in other states, according to a News4 I-Team investigation.

The Allston family had about 40 public high schools in the District to choose from for their daughter, Taylor. There was the computer-science-focused charter school that Taylor’s friend was interested in, as well as the application schools…

An online fundraising drive is underway to help the mother of the youngest victim of a fire at an unlicensed D.C. apartment building last week.

Todd Anthony Messer left his home in Northern Virginia shortly after he turned 19. Setting off with a girlfriend, he largely cut off contact with his family.

Advocates fear that if the Bureau of Prisons fails to resolve a complicated contract dispute, the city could be left without a men’s halfway house for federal inmates.

Lovers of local history will be delighted to hear that everything old is new again at the Historical Society of Washington. After a peripatetic few years, the society’s Kiplinger Research Library is reopening Tuesday in its old home: the…

The dispensary denies the allegations as "false," "inflammatory," and "baseless," and is suing the city.

Urban Investment Partners has shed one of the trio of of Tenleytown properties it bought from American University in 2016 to an affiliate of Cogent Communications CEO Dave Schaeffer for $13.35 million, more than a year after the property…

Urban planning officials are aiming to produce 36,000 new units by 2025

In Washington Spirit’s first game at Audi Field this season, the team did more than win 2-1 against the Orlando Pride—it also pulverized its previous attendance records, more than doubling last season’s high mark.

A ceremony at the edge of the Potomac River at Georgetown Waterfront Park’s Meditation Labyrinth at 33rd and Water Streets NW marked the 1619 landing of enslaved Africans in colonial Virginia. It also marked the 1732 arrival of the first…

A new report from the Office of the DC Auditor found the former chairperson and former treasurer of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 8C wrote thousands of dollars worth of fraudulent and unauthorized checks over the past two years.

With a basket of broken toys and her two children in tow, Washington, D.C. resident Daniela Ochoa was on a mission.