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Universities are often maligned as ivory towers, places far removed from the practical realities of daily life. But for one group of graduate students at Georgetown University, a class project has turned into a tool D.C. will use to better…

Plans to extend the DC Streetcar to Georgetown have been effectively scrapped.

D.C.'s attorney general is bringing The Trump Organization to court again over payments to its D.C. hotel, this time involving President Donald Trump's inaugural committtee.

In less than two months, the Supreme Court will hear its first abortion rights case since the confirmation of Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh. This case could be a major step in chipping away the protections of Roe v. Wade…

The news that a bobcat has been spotted in Washington inspires hope. The bobcat was photographed at night a few weeks ago while passing by a camera trap that had been set up to document the overabundance of feral house cats in the…

Detrice Belt moved into Barry Farm Dwellings — a public housing complex in Southeast Washington — in the late '90s, when she was in junior high. In 2007, she had a baby girl, and the townhouse she grew up in with her mother, brother and…

Maurice Queen, who joined DC’s Department of Public Works in 1969, is the city’s longest-serving trash collector. But not for long: The 72-year-old District native plans to retire in January.

One morning this past September, Gerald Smith Jr., the principal at St. Thomas More Catholic Academy in Washington, D.C., added some more brightly colored college pennants on a clothesline decorating a wall along the school’s main hallway.…

Howard University has landed its largest financial gift in its 153-year history, and it will use it to expand its program for science and technology scholars.

The Karsh Family Foundation, established by Oaktree Capital Management co-founder Bruce Karsh and his wife Martha Karsh, has donated $10 million to Howard University to endow its STEM program.

Don’t expect to see any earth moving at the McMillan Sand Filtration Plant anytime soon — a D.C. court has barred any demolition on the site for the foreseeable future in yet another, perhaps predictable, setback for the development.

The American Trucking Association is hitting the road again, but this time, it has chosen wood over concrete and steel.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine has announced a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, the Trump Organization, and the Trump International Hotel for allegedly abusing nonprofit funds to enrich the Trump family. In…

A pair of bills before the D.C. Council and Maryland’s General Assembly would make attempted strangulation a felony offense. If passed, they would bring both jurisdictions in line with almost every U.S. state in how they punish an offense…

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine has sued President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee over alleged violations of its nonprofit status, saying the committee knowingly overpaid for use of the ballroom at the Trump International Hotel in…

American Ninja Warrior—a show that requires contestants to complete a series of impossible and often painful-looking obstacle courses that, to me, look much like one of Dante’s Nine Circles—is taping in D.C. this April.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia is suing President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee and two companies that control the Trump International Hotel in the nation’s capital, accusing them of throwing parties for the Trump family…