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It may be mammoth, but it’s actually a mastodon. With scooped tusks, a firm jaw, and powerful hind legs, the 14,000-year-old skeleton looks like it could walk right out of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Currently, 1 percent of D.C.’s electricity is supplied by solar. Some are already concerned that the city can’t make it all the way to 10 percent solar by 2042.

Mailers sent to at least 5,000 D.C. voters in recent weeks incorrectly stated that the city’s primary election is on the “3rd Tuesday in June,” when in fact it will take place on June 2.

Hundreds of people gathered to celebrate the founding 44 years ago of the only public university in the District. A student choir sang the black national anthem — “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” — and graduates paid homage to the school they…

Calvin Bright had spent more than two decades imprisoned for a double murder he maintains he did not commit when new evidence surfaced in the case. He learned authorities had withheld a tip that another man was the killer.

D.C. firefighters gathered Saturday to honor 150 year of history at a Northwest D.C. fire company that was the first all-African American fire company in the District of Columbia. It just so happens its anniversary falls within Black…

Clifford B. Janey, a former superintendent of Washington’s troubled public schools who began his leadership amid high hopes for a turnaround in 2004 and left in 2007 at the behest of a new mayor who said he wanted a change at the top, died…

Ask D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser if she encountered sexism in her rise to power, and her response is immediate: “Yes.”

The D.C. Board of Elections sent out voter registration cards with an incorrect date for the city’s primary elections in June.

The rebranding comes after recreational sports league DC Fray bought the magazine in 2019.

The Phillips Collection’s Creative Aging program provides them with the opportunity to study art and make their own

After a nearly a year in delays, the National Children's Museum will opens its doors to the public on Monday.

D.C. officials have sent 5,000 voter registration cards listing the wrong date for the District’s primary election, the elections board acknowledged Friday.

It’s hard to overstate what a tumultuous year 2019 was for Liberty and Justice, the District’s most beloved bald eagle parents:

After nixing its first electric bike initiative last year over braking issues, Capital Bikeshare will introduce a fleet of 1,500 electric bikes to the region’s streets next month. The system will begin rolling out the fleet on March 18,…

The buyer of a Downtown D.C. office building is planning to redevelop the site into residential, a strategy that could help D.C. address its office vacancy and housing shortage problems.

We asked one of the authors why this new research got such different results.

Judy Yu hasn’t given herself a paycheck this month. She estimates business at Sichuan Jin River, the Rockville restaurant she co-owns with two partners, has been down by about 35 percent so far this year—a trend she links to fears about…