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After eight days of protests in the District over the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, officials are preparing for the week’s biggest demonstration in Washington.

Kiesha Davis had no idea that the boy who sat near her in sixth grade couldn’t read.

A new halfway house for men returning to D.C. from federal prison will be allowed to open in Ward 7 this fall, following an extended contract dispute that left the future of reentry services in the…

All week, as protesters have poured into the streets to demand that police stop killing black people, President Trump has raged about the refusal of governors and mayors to order National Guard…

After a week of protests for George Floyd, the black man who was killed by Minneapolis police on May 25, D.C. is expecting to enter its ninth day of protests on Saturday — which officials anticipate…

The start of the Capital Pride Celebration would have been Friday, but with the event postponed by the pandemic, some would-be participants are putting their efforts into the ongoing D.C. protests.

About 900 active-duty troops in the D.C. region have received orders to return to bases in New York and North Carolina, according to a press call with Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy.

D-Day in D.C. this 2020 was nothing like D-Day on June 6, 1944, when American-led forces landed on beaches in Normandy. The District’s D-Day actually occurred days earlier, when the White House…

Cloaked by the shadow of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, Antonio Watson, a 24-year-old recruit officer with the D.C. police, bowed his head in silence. He thought about the early hours on…

On an especially chaotic night, the U.S. Army flew one of its helicopters so low that trash, signs, and branches whipped around people protesting George Floyd’s killing in Chinatown. It was a scare…

A lobbyist with close ties to President Trump ended his relationship with the District of Columbia Friday as tensions grew between the president and Mayor Muriel E. Bowser.

The deployment of unwanted federal forces in the District of Columbia is only possible because it is not a state.

The fence Trump built around the White House was the exclamation point in a week of military occupation in D.C. But the streets around it have a different message.

Don’t expect to see more coronavirus-related restrictions lifted in D.C. anytime soon — health officials don’t think they’ll be able to make that call until at least June 19.

By Monday, Ward 6 resident Alex Dickson was running out of options. She had requested an absentee ballot for the following day’s primary election, but even after repeated promises from the D.C. Board…

On her eighth day of protesting the killing of George Floyd, Lamarr was tired, hot, and sweaty. The 49-year-old mother and educator who lives in Silver Spring, has been out here all day Wednesday.…

"I was in the wrong and I see that now," founder and former director Catharine Bellinger says.

Northeast D.C. has grown rapidly over the last decade, with developments adding thousands of apartments and a host of new retail to neighborhoods including H Street, NoMa, Union Market, Ivy City and…

Ahead of an expected eight consecutive days of protests in D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser penned a formal letter to President Donald Trump requesting the removal of federal law enforcement and military…

The Events D.C. board of directors Friday unanimously approved an additional $15.2 million in coronavirus relief to support undocumented workers in the hospitality industry as well as 30 District's…