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A District man who has spent 22 years in prison after being convicted of a murder when he was 16, and who caught the attention and support of reality-TV star Kim Kardashian West, was ordered released from prison Friday.

The only thing missing from the video, it seemed, was the Pied Piper, leading all the rats to the Dupont Circle pizzeria in Washington.

This is a case of negligence to the point of cruelty: The District’s only public psychiatric hospital, St. Elizabeths, has been operating without running water since last week.

Authorities searching for a man in a drug case uncovered a large-scale marijuana operation inside an eighth-floor apartment on K Street Northwest, near the Foggy Bottom campus of George Washington University, according to police and court…

The Washington Nationals will host the Los Angeles Dodgers Sunday in the National League Division Series, and the flood of fans pouring into the park will see many new additions to the neighborhood that did not exist for the Nats' last…

The day after Election Day 2018, when Democrats won control of the House of Representatives, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced one major impact of the power shift: she would be sending a plan to tax and regulate recreational marijuana to the…

Ivy City will soon be home to a new type of social club, with a bar that serves both both beer and juice boxes.

The redevelopment of Capitol Hill's Hine School took more than a decade to get through planning and construction, and now its office, residential and retail spaces are nearly filled two years after delivery.

A D.C. Council member has drafted legislation that would put an immediate stop to nearly all cooperation between the District’s jails and federal immigration enforcement.

Of the eight bridges connecting the nation’s capital to northern Virginia across the Potomac River, only one is a railroad bridge. And that one stands out for its, shall we say, reddish tint.

The first thing you notice when you walk into 7DrumCity is the volume. The second is the ground.

The District remains a strong employment center but it is increasingly struggling to retain small businesses that start up within its boundaries, according to a coalition of business leaders, researchers and politicians convened at a D.C.…

St. Elizabeths Hospital will have potable water again by the end of next week, a deputy mayor said. The announcement came after two types of bacteria were discovered during a water test more than a week ago.

After staying mum on the subject for months, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser reiterated Friday that she remains determined to bring the National Football League back to the District.

The museum expects to reopen next spring

Results from the annual Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers don’t tell us whether or where education is improving. They should.

Millions of documents that tell more than 200 years of D.C.’s history fester in a converted stable without appropriate climate control or space for researchers. Even as Maryland has carefully catalogued the heritage records stored in its…

Jerard Briscoe is away at school. Or at least, that’s what he tells his kids.

It’s karaoke-rehearsal time at Knollwood Military Retirement Community, a 300-bed facility tucked away in a leafy corner of northwest Washington, D.C.

Doretha Butler says that D.C.’s employment policies are forcing her to choose between the medicine that best treats her debilitating back pain and the Department of Public Works job she’s held for a decade. She just filed a lawsuit against…