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The D.C. region’s upward trend of coronavirus cases is beginning to set new records for the area.

Two years ago, when opioid-related fatalities overtook homicides as the District’s leading cause of preventable deaths, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser vowed to cut fatal overdoses in half by this fall.

A D.C. man who works as a violence interrupter in Trinidad was arrested and charged Friday for a killing that occurred almost four years ago.

As if the ZooLights Express truck didn’t encapsulate the essence of 2020 well enough, the 24-foot-long flatbed truck adorned with a lone dancing panda took it a step further by breaking down during…

On an overcast but mild morning in late October, Nathan Harrington pulled up at a dead end in the southern reaches of D.C. His gray pickup truck carried a magnet with the name of the Ward 8 Woods…

“ABRASIONS AND contusions to the head, face and torso; contusions to the heart and thymus gland; acute abdomen injuries consisting of hemorrhaging of the soft tissue of the abdomen; liver laceration;…

A man who worked as a violence interrupter for D.C.’s Office of the Attorney General was arrested and charged for allegedly committing a murder in 2017.

A supervisor for a team of violence interrupters who work to curtail shootings in one of the District’s most dangerous neighborhoods was arrested Friday and charged in a 2017 killing.

On Friday, President-elect Joe Biden said it is “highly unlikely” millions will gather at the National Mall on Jan. 21 for the presidential inauguration.

There are going to be more pro-Trump and MAGA rallies in D.C. on Dec. 12, but they likely won’t be as large as the ones that happened last month, organizers write in their National Park Service…

Facing the worst budget crisis in Metro history, board members on Friday wrestled with how to plan for a half-billion-dollar deficit without proposing draconian cuts that could scare away riders the…

The District’s public school system is considering eliminating the admission test at the city’s most selective high school, School Without Walls, over fears that the test cannot be administered…

I am fully prepared to entertain the argument that the persons who fired the weapons Wednesday night in Southeast D.C., which struck a vehicle multiple times and killed 15-month-old Carmelo Duncan,…

Landlords of affordable housing units have seven days left to apply for housing stabilization grants to cover tenants’ missed rent payments from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The bar's freshly baked cookie assortment was enough for ABRA inspectors, until now.

The D.C. Health Department has announced ambitious new goals for further reducing the spread of HIV in the District over the next decade.

Ahead of his February start at the police department in Prince William County, Virginia, outgoing D.C. police Chief Peter Newsham discussed crime and policing in the District on Friday.

Metro’s proposed budget, which would dramatically scale back service next year, has been a lightning rod for criticism, including some from within the Metro Board of Directors Friday.

After two years, construction on the Arlington Memorial Bridge is over. Work cones were removed around noon Friday, and all six lanes and both sidewalks opened for use.

D.C., Maryland and Virginia reported by far the highest single-day total for new coronavirus cases Friday, with 6,985 new infections.