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In the early days of the protests in D.C. prompted by the death of George Floyd, many businesses boarded up their storefront windows.

The District passed a somber milestone on Thursday: more than 500 residents dead from COVID-19.

Thanks to an expansion of the number of protected bike lanes, adding access to Capital Bikeshare and new efforts promote bike safety for elementary school students, D.C. is one of the best places to…

Streets in downtown Washington and along the Mall will be closed Sunday and possibly part of Saturday for demonstrations that are expected as protesters continue to call for an end to racial…

For as long as we Americans have been Americans, we’ve complained about taxes. Many of us complain that tax burdens are too heavy, a few complain that tax burdens are too light, and nearly everyone…

D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee on Thursday defended the use of police officers in the city’s public schools, saying law enforcement and security guards are critical to student…

Where law enforcement had lined up behind riot shields, there now stood seven trash cans, overflowing with the pungent residue of a historic week of protests.

The Metro board said Thursday it will return next month with a plan to address systemic racism in the transit system, including allegations of racially biased and unequal enforcement by transit…

D.C. has filed multiple lawsuits accusing relatives and a caretaker of taking financial advantage of elderly residents.

Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C., Sharon Weston Broome of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta, and Victoria Woodards of Tacoma, Washington, spoke with ABC News about the scrutiny…

The Metropolitan Police Department will close a number of city streets on Saturday and Sunday, as D.C. gears up for its third-straight weekend of protests against police violence in the wake of…

An annual count of homeless people in the Washington region tallied the fewest number of individuals sleeping outdoors or in emergency or transitional shelters since the Metropolitan Washington…

Sweeping legislation swiftly passed by the D.C. Council this week to bring greater accountability and transparency to the District’s police force will expand civilian review, make it far easier to…

Metro service appears set to ramp up later this summer. Metro is currently operating at about 35% of normal peak service, with plans to jump to 70 to 80% levels in its next reopening phase.

Maboud Ebrahimzadeh is one of the lucky ones.

This past weekend Metro added 136 more daily bus trips spread across a dozen heavily-traveled routes to help keep up with ridership demand.

Like many people right now, Corey Cappelloni misses his grandmother, but because of the coronavirus pandemic, he can’t really go visit her to say hello.

Holding an iPad provided by the nurses inside the Allied Services Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Scranton, Pa., and done up for the occasion of her first FaceTime call, 98-year-old…

Booms and bangs were everywhere. The air was acrid with pepper spray, marijuana and sage — the peace goddesses were trying to purify the protesters by burning sage.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Almost as soon as the towering black fencing was erected last week to seal off Lafayette Park, the barrier became an art gallery and a sounding board for the demonstrators…