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Children who might have otherwise received nothing for Christmas were able to fill their arms with puzzles, stuffed animals and other used toys.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton announced Friday that President Joe Biden has signed into law a provision that focuses on finding a backup drinking water supply for D.C.-area residents who depend…

Adnan Syed, freed this fall after more than two decades in prison, is now working with Georgetown University’s Prisons and Justice Initiative, the university announced this week.

A D.C. disability rights group is blaming the death of a psychiatric hospital patient on distracted staff.

D.C.’s 2018 Clean Energy DC Omnibus Act kick-started its progressive transition to all-electric properties. Four years later, the bill’s worst skeptic is the District’s own electricity supplier.

The D.C. government has implemented a pilot affordable housing program designed to convert existing market-rate multifamily units into rent-capped affordable ones, likely at a lower cost than…

Staff at St. Elizabeths Hospital — the District’s only public psychiatric hospital — should have been able to prevent the murder of a patient in his room in March, according to a new investigative…

The decrepit stadium is being torn apart, and those who went to games there are taking home pieces of history.

The District’s population grew slightly last year, reversing the pandemic-related decline from the previous year, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday.

The decrepit stadium is being torn apart, and those who went to games there are taking home pieces of history.

Prosecutors have acknowledged Syed, subject of the true-crime ‘Serial’ podcast, was wrongly convicted

After putting away the dishes, Kim Wright finally sat down to write the thing she’d been composing in her head all day.

Vikram Swaruup will become the first person of color and first openly LGBTQ person to permanently lead the city’s largest general legal services organization

A long-standing legal battle over a neighborhood gathering spot in Northwest Washington was extended Thursday when the D.C. Court of Appeals ordered a trial to determine whether the parcel should be…

The District’s Department of Transportation is proposing an expansion of its storage facility for D.C.'s streetcars.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Adnan Syed, who was released from a Maryland prison this year after his case was the focus of the true-crime podcast “Serial,” has been hired by Georgetown University as a…

The whistle starts 16-year-old Maya Werbow’s first wrestling match ever. Her teammates cheer her on from the bench.

Sedricka Knight is trying to escape a dangerous situation after her neighbor assaulted her outside her front door. But the D.C. Housing Authority has nowhere to move her, leaving Knight in limbo.

The D.C. Court of Appeals on Thursday revived the long-running fight over whether a condo building can be built on a small, privately owned concrete plaza in the heart of Adams Morgan. A lower court…