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D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser is asking federal prosecutors to launch a criminal investigation into Sunday’s fire that killed two people, including a child, at a rowhouse crowded with Ethiopian immigrants and lacking approval for rental…

We rely too much on incarceration. The pillars of the system should be healing, restoration and renewal.

Ashly Taylor was shot for being a lesbian. Then she watched as the hatred that fueled the attack was ignored in court.

He’s turning four but will relocate to China in the coming months

Before a month’s worth of rain fell onto the nation’s capital in a single hour, flooding her apartment and destroying most of her family’s belongings, Christina Gaddis had a home that offered a washer and dryer and one other important…

MRP Realty and JM Zell Partners have struck a deal to buy the Hechinger Mall site in Northeast D.C., potentially setting the stage for a major redevelopment of the nearly 40-year-old retail center.

The District settled a civil rights lawsuit against a window replacement company that allegedly denied service to customers east of the Anacostia River based on crime statistics, Attorney General Karl Racine announced on Wednesday.

Pressure is mounting on the District’s second voting Metro board representative to resign after allegations that he leaned on the agency’s staff and took other steps to conceal an ethics violation by D.C. Council member and former board…

The elderly man who was found trapped in his apartment at the Arthur Capper Senior Center five days after a fire ravaged the building is now suing the senior complex’s management company for $3 million.

A window company has settled with D.C. after the attorney general’s office accused it of discrimination in not providing service to certain areas, including ZIP codes east of the Anacostia River.

The stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue NW in front of the White House will close entirely, effective immediately, to allow for construction of a new, higher fence at the White House.

Holocaust survivor Halina Yasharoff Peabody studies a painting based on her life.

For Antonio Myers, life with autism has always felt like sitting in a movie theater.

Happy birthday to a giant panda.

Mayor Muriel Bowser has signed an emergency rule blocking a 200-bed shelter for unaccompanied immigrant children that would have been located in the Takoma neighborhood of Northwest D.C.

They were strangers when their lives converged at the white-painted brick rowhouse in the middle of Kennedy Street in Northwest Washington.

The administration of D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has enacted emergency regulations that would stop a planned federal shelter for unaccompanied migrant children in Northwest Washington.

Ronald C. Clark, co-founder of RAP Inc. drug treatment center in the District, was remembered at a memorial service last week as a visionary, a pioneer and a hero to many who were able to break the bonds of addiction because of his work.

The man reportedly suffered a broken collarbone.