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Malachi Lukes is one of 29 homicide victims in D.C.

The public heard of a planned office-to-residential conversion off Thomas Circle a couple of weeks ago. Now, that plan is being set in motion.

The nation’s capital has pop-up shops for food and drink, even marijuana. And now, coronavirus prevention supplies.

The new D.C. memorial to President Dwight Eisenhower will be formally dedicated May 8, the 75th anniversary of the day Allied forces declared victory in Europe during World War II. It’s a date planners have long targeted for the memorial’s…

Jamicka Edwards held back tears when she arrived Thursday to do a community service project at Calvary Women’s Services, a transitional housing provider for homeless women.

There’s a history in D.C. that replacing deteriorating public housing buildings begins by displacing many of the residents who live there. Though many are generally eager for better housing, they feel rooted in neighborhoods they’ve lived…

As she stood on church steps, Melissa Laws clapped boldly and loudly led a chorus of family, neighbors and strangers Thursday in singing Stevie Wonder’s version of “Happy Birthday” to celebrate her son turning 14.

He pleaded for forgiveness, but got booed. He played the populist, drawing angry jeers. And he fought back, throwing a few verbal counterpunches after what may have seemed like a stream of body blows.

Nancy Sanders and Janet Schaffel were young doctors, in the 1980s, when they joined Women OB/GYN Physicians.

Nobody knew it at the time, but a November 1981 punk rock show in at the aging Ontario Theater, in a then-sketchy part of Northwest D.C., was a key moment in local music history, and changed the trajectory of the pioneering all-woman band,…

Former D.C. Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans made his first public appearance since resigning from the seat he now seeks to reclaim on Thursday during a candidates forum near Dupont Circle.

Jack Evans stood before hundreds of former constituents packed inside a Northwest Washington church and offered penance in his bid to reclaim the D.C. Council seat he gave up in scandal.

D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham told the city council during MPD's annual review that his officers report crime "as accurately as we can."

State officials, business leaders and transit advocates testified Thursday in front of the Maryland House Environment and Transportation Committee to make the case for expanding MARC train service farther into D.C. and Virginia.

The Metropolitan Police Department published a new set of stop-and-frisk data this week, confirming the racial disparities in enforcement found in the city’s first-ever release of such data last September. Nearly three-quarters of the…

But a lot of the questions mention a "fifth generation D.C. resident" and a "former Obama administration official."

The latest boutique hotel proposed in the District is a 104-room property on a largely empty lot in the middle of a slew of development on the southern end of Ninth Street NW in Shaw.

WASHINGTON – “Hamilton,” the top-grossing musical on Broadway, is coming to Washington. The “room where it happens” is the Opera House at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.