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Happy Monday. Political analyst and DC statehood champion Mark Plotkin died Sunday at the age of 72, his former station WTOP reported …

Homeless advocates in D.C. are panning a white paper published by the White House Council of Economic Advisers last week diagnosing the problem of homelessness in American cities, saying the paper makes unfair assumptions about why people…

Last year, about 500 volunteers showed up at Kingman Island for International Coastal Cleanup Day, and in about an hour’s worth of work, they picked up 5,000 bags of trash. Most of it was plastic bottles, but there really was a wide range…

It’s no surprise that the the District’s assisted suicide program isn’t popular. When it was legalized two years ago, health officials estimated as many as 10 people annually would elect to die this way. The reality? Two of four…

The Washington Monument has reopened after three years of renovations, but there’s still one place that visitors can’t see: its 896-step staircase.

As DC explores how and where to focus its efforts in creating 12,000 affordable housing units over the next six years, the Office of Planning has revealed the results from a survey on how city residents feel about the current distribution…

Climate change protesters shut down some intersections from Capitol Hill to downtown Washington Monday morning in the latest of a series of rallies around the world designed to force policymakers to respond to Earth’s rising temperatures. …

A coalition of demonstrators called “Shut Down D.C.” took to the District’s streets Monday morning, creating gridlock to draw attention to climate change for rush hour commuters.

There were weeks of warning, but that won't make Monday's commute any easier as climate change activists, joined by social justice organizations, have blocked key intersections of the District.

David Krucoff would one day like to welcome you to Douglass County, Maryland, which lies — in his vision and on maps he’s made — on land now occupied by the nation’s capital.

Mark Plotkin, a fixture in Washington, D.C., politics for decades, has died. He was 72.

A broad coalition of activists calling themselves “Shut Down D.C.” plans to block streets throughout the nation’s capital to draw attention to climate change.

Former WTOP political analyst Mark Plotkin died Sunday at the age of 72.

Just days after the D.C. Youth Climate Strike, another climate change protest is on the way, and it could impact your Monday morning commute.

The $152 million project is expected to open to students for the 2021-2022 school year.

A Democratic-backed effort to grant statehood to the District of Columbia faces an uphill battle in Congress, even with record support and powerful allies like Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). …

REPUBLICAN DISREGARD for the civil rights of D.C. residents has long been established. So it was no surprise that at last week’s House hearing on D.C. statehood, GOP lawmakers ticked off their usual reasons that they don’t think the…