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A teenager is starting classes at George Washington University this fall as a college freshman and just about everyone cannot believe their eyes.

A senior federal prosecutor within the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia acknowledged Sunday that he presented inaccurate information at a community meeting regarding the expansion of a law that would allow some inmates…

Tents, vendors, three stages and a dance plaza, food trucks and even a history truck line a stretch of 18th street in Northwest in Adams Morgan. It’s the 41st celebration of one of the District’s historic neighborhoods.

Visitors at the National Zoo got to get up close and personal with some exotic birds Sunday for Birds in Flight, a free show featuring species from around the world.

Advisory neighborhood commissioner Denise Krepp’s Aug. 18 Local Opinions essay, “A miscarriage of justice for sex-crime victims,” seemed to want to represent all sexual assault survivors. As a black woman and mother who has survived sexual…

As DC prepares to raze a housing development in Southeast, community organizers are fighting to preserve what they say is an important site in DC history.

Only on Fox 5: A D.C. animal control officer kicks out veterans group BraveHearts just moments before the organization was set to start its 21-mile horseback ride across the District.

Tourists in the nation’s capital Saturday witnessed an uncommon sight in the District as a patrol of military veterans rode horseback to mourn comrades who died by suicide and raise awareness of a therapy that might help others suffering…

Top D.C. education officials knew for months about safety issues plaguing a charter school that serves some of the city’s most vulnerable children but did not force changes, public records and interviews with school employees show.

Among the horses in the first race at Pimlico Race Course on Oct. 27, 1943, was one with a name plucked from science fiction: Atom Smasher. The fact that Atom Smasher finished last should not detract from the excitement that accompanied…

The newest addition to the Kennedy Center marks the first expansion in the center’s history and kicked off with a free 16-day festival to welcome visitors.

They aren’t scientists, and they don’t have a background in distilling. But the duo still founded the largest crowdfunded distillery in the country.

Students at Hendley Elementary School are getting a much needed gymnasium renovation thanks to the Washington Capitals and local organization, So Kids Can.

DC sports betters will have at least half a dozen apps to choose from. But which one you can use to place a bet will depend on your location at that moment

When Jasmine Greene’s daughter was born about three years ago, she was living in an abandoned house.

When people get shot and killed in D.C., the stories we hear about them often start with how their lives ended.

It’s highly unusual for a U.S. attorney to interfere so heavily in local reform. That convention is changing under Trump.

The new addition to D.C.’s performing-arts behemoth strives to create a sense of lightness, movement, and intimacy—qualities that the original building lacks.

Federal prosecutors in the District and the city’s police chief this week joined to lobby against an effort to expand a law that allows some inmates convicted of serious crimes a chance to ask for early release.

Local leaders are looking for ways to help direct opportunity zone investments into underserved areas, and a series of grants will help four cities in that effort.