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On a balmy summer night about two months ago, Joe Cwiklinski climbed into his car, strapped on the seat belt, and began driving home from a friend’s house in Virginia.

Tougher penalties for gun violations and expanded intervention programs were among the wide ranging topics aired while city leaders considered legislative strategies to help D.C. respond to gun…

For four hours, nearly three miles of Georgia Avenue NW will be a car-free zone.

The Virginia Williams Family Resource Center, the District’s access point to family shelter, opens at 8:30 every morning. Adults with children in tow are assessed, categorized, and sent off. Some…

The stately gray stone walls of the Folger Shakespeare Library on East Capitol Street have graced Capitol Hill since 1932, when Shakespeare collector Emily Folger saw her husband Henry’s vision of a…

A couple dozen Georgetown University students broke into a chant Thursday outside a meeting of the school’s board of directors, seeking to put pressure on the university to do more to redress…

D.C.’s effort to fight gun violence now involves proposed legislation that would ban so-called “ghost guns” that don’t contain enough metal to set off most magnetometers and are untraceable.

Up and down the East Coast, SEIU’s janitorial contracts are expiring. D.C.’s janitors expect a better one—and if they don’t get it, they’ll strike.

Georgetown University students gathered Thursday to protest the university's lack of progress on implementing reparations for descendants of slaves once sold by the school. Students voted…

The mother of a young man who was gunned down in Southeast in August pleaded Thursday at a D.C. Council hearing for something to be done about the disproportionate amount of violence her community…

It’s a wrap for the 16th annual DC Shorts International Short Film Festival and Screenplay Competition, where once again artists and audiences spent 10 days engaged with the craft of short…

St. Elizabeths, D.C.’s public psychiatric hospital, hasn’t had running water for a week.

Centered on Alan Karchmer’s architectural photography, the exhibit debuts this fall

Demand for D.C. office space continued to grow moderately in Q3, but that trend has been overshadowed by the influx of office buildings delivering with large blocks of available space, keeping the…

Trinity Pisarsky, a freshman student at Howard University, says she chose to live in the Harriet Tubman Quadrangle (aka “The Quad”), which comprises five dormitory halls, because she’d heard it was…

The system will stay open 20 minutes after the games end in the event they run past normal closing time.

Twin mysteries have been solved Thursday in a case of a man who was brought back from the brink of death after suffering a heart attack while driving in D.C.

D.C. Department of Corrections handed 43 undocumented immigrants over to ICE between January 2016 and June 2019.

They’ve been stranded in India for seven weeks now.

Ward 6 D.C. councilmember Charles Allen plans to introduce emergency legislation on Tuesday that would further limit the city’s cooperation with federal immigration authorities. If passed, the bill…