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Historians are hopeful that one of the four human skeletons recently found in the basement a Georgetown home could belong to one of the most famous slaves in the history of Washington, D.C.

In the early 1960s, as a child, I would accompany my parents on errands in downtown Washington, D.C. A lasting part of these memories is the sight and sound of an older woman singing and playing slide guitar on Seventh Street NW. Her name…

In the nearly six years since Palena, an early contributor to DC's then-burgeoning dining scene, closed on Connecticut Avenue, the Cleveland Park space has remained vacant. Now, it looks like a bank is slated for the site.

President Trump upped funding for the District to provide security at huge rallies and other events in the budget proposal released Monday, but still fell short of the amount the city says is needed.

As D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser stepped off a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign bus Sunday night and darted through the dark into an Arlington, Va., field office, she passed a crowd of angry protesters jeering at her on the sidewalk.

Donroy Ferdinand and his friend were leaving the Shaw-Howard U Metro station Thursday night when they saw a 13-year old boy in handcuffs, surrounded by three Metro Transit Police officers.

As DC continues its efforts to drum up support for Mayor Bowser's housing production goals, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development has released a graph* showing how — or whether — approval of housing units has…

Happy Monday. Can campaigning for Michael Bloomberg give Muriel Bowser a path to becoming a national figure? Will it put a spotlight on DC's mayor not seen since the days of Adrian Fenty?

WMATA has picked the team to redevelop its longtime headquarters building in Chinatown as the transit agency plans its move to L'Enfant Plaza.

Human remains were found in a Q Street basement in Georgetown on Feb. 4.The discovery may have surprised a few. But many Georgetowners, especially those who live on the 3300 block of Q, know that this place still has history to reveal.

The D.C. Superior Courthouse is helping local couples mark a meaningful anniversary date with a symbolic number of weddings on Valentine’s Day this year.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has selected a joint venture of Stonebridge and New York’s Rockefeller Group as the development partner for its downtown D.C. headquarters.

Metro has reached a deal to lease its soon-to-be vacated downtown headquarters to a development group that will remake the nearly 40-year-old building into a modern commercial office space that could house more than 1,500 employees and…

The Metro Transit Police are reviewing an incident Thursday night that started with an apparent misunderstanding over “horseplay” on a station platform and ended with a 13-year-old boy being handcuffed and spending the night in juvenile…

The dancers emerged onto the blue-lit stage wearing all white. In rows of two — their hands clasped — they slid across the theater floor, threw their arms above their heads and twirled.

WHEN FATAL opioid overdoses peaked in the District in 2017 with the deaths of 281 people, it was clear that one of the factors was the city government’s sluggish — some said negligent — approach to the problem. Not only was there no real…

Last year, three charter schools in the District stood on the brink of closing. They needed help. Fast. Two turned to the Friendship Public Charter network. The third received a lifeline from the KIPP DC charter network.