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In many ways, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is already larger than life, with an adoring fandom, a rap-influenced nickname bestowed by admirers and two motion pictures depicting her life.…

D.C. lawmakers made it clear: Students are permitted to consume medical marijuana on school grounds.

In 1854, the anti-Catholic party stole the stone the pope had donated to the obelisk.

Affordability is tough to accurately measure. The concept is relative. It’s deeply personal and it varies between states, towns, neighborhoods, and households. It also relies on a number of factors:…

The brother and friends of Karon Brown, shot dead at 11, have something to say.

The line started forming early outside the Washington Monument on day one of the monument’s reopening to the general public after a three-year closure.

Councilmember Trayon White has asked skeptics to show him their IDs.

Experts say DC Water, which operates Blue Plains, has become a forward-thinking leader in both adaptation and mitigation.

House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) has rejected a last-minute request by Republicans to invite embattled D.C. Council member Jack Evans to testify at Thursday’s hearing on…

District leaders are headed to Capitol Hill, where Congress will hold its first hearing on D.C. statehood in more than 25 years. After Thursday’s hearing, an evening of rallying and celebration is…

FOUR MINUTES and one second. That is how long it took before D.C. firefighters were dispatched to the blaze at a Northwest rowhouse last month. Was there a delay in sending help that might have…

D.C. officials and advocates have agitated for generations to make the District the 51st state. On Thursday, they make their case to Congress.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser plans to sign emergency legislation that would allow students who are enrolled as patients in the District’s medical marijuana program to get treatment in schools, according…

The D.C. Council, frustrated by roadblocks in its investigation of possible ethics violations by member Jack Evans, voted 12 to 1 this week to allow city officials to ask a court to compel the…

The State of the Washington Region Commute is… not great.

Ahead of the first D.C. statehood hearing in decades in the House of Representatives, we’ve got answers to all the questions you were afraid to ask about the District’s bid to become the 51st state. …

So you’re ready to plant some perennials or shrubs in your yard or maybe have some empty pots on the balcony, but you don’t know where to start. No worries. There are a variety of native flora that…

District leaders will advocate for equal voting rights and full representation

More extreme thunderstorms and hurricanes. Entire summers of “heat emergency” days. Regular flooding along the Potomac River and Anacostia River, as well as inland neighborhoods, where storm drains…

Wyoming has two senators and over 1.3 million cattle. DC has no senators, three cows and many more people. How is this fair? It's time for statehood.