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People had been losing their minds for days over the Popeyes chicken sandwich when someone threw out a suggestion for locals in D.C.: “Popeyes is cool and all,” the woman tweeted. “If you live in the DMV area you should check out the…

Happy September and Labor Day! The story in Deadspin about Maret private school having exclusive after-school weekday rights over the playing field at the public Jelleff Recreation Center helped rally opposition to the deal, with 1,300…

The director of D.C.’s Office of Unified Communications is weighing in on how long it took dispatchers to send firefighters to battle a deadly blaze two weeks ago.

The chicken wars between Popeyes and Chick-fil-A might be waning since Popeyes ran out of product for their sandwiches, but it’s been a boon for business at one local restaurant.

An elite private school has been granted special access to a public playing field in Northwest in exchange for funding upgrades to the site. But the deal with D.C. officials has some residents and politicians calling foul on a move they…

If you want to try the Roaming Rooster in Northeast D.C., you'll likely wait in a long line. But, it's well worth the wait.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) will nominate a deputy who led the Department of Motor Vehicles for more than a decade to replace Corbett Price on the Metro board, her spokeswoman confirmed Saturday.

About 20 people gathered Saturday at the historical McMillan Reservoir to protest its redevelopment.

The same housing investigator who failed to act after a police officer flagged a possible illegal rooming house in Northwest Washington where two tenants were killed in a fire Aug. 18 also mishandled a similar warning the same officer made…

Built into the masonry of the Georgetown Visitation convent is a marble marker indicating the cross-streets of another era.

A little more than a month before President Trump selected Jessie K. Liu as the District’s U.S. attorney in 2017, a city law took effect that gave dozens of inmates who had committed serious crimes as teenagers a chance at early release.

Walk into the F Street headquarters of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts and you will see a white lion stretched out in the lobby.

There is still work to be done on the Washington Monument before it reopens to the public on September 19.

It was the first of its kind poll, asking D.C. residents to give input on whether a notorious, convicted drug trafficker should be considered for early release.

A member of Metro’s board of directors, who is accused of helping former board chairman Jack Evans cover up an ethics violation, has resigned.

Dangerous conditions inside what officials describe as an illegal rooming house that burned nearly two weeks ago in Northwest Washington “contributed to the deaths” of a man and a 9-year-old boy, according to court documents.

Two members of the D.C. Council are asking city agencies to examine a local firm that is supposed to do most of the work on a $215 million no-bid gambling contract despite the fact that it has no employees and listed executives on its…

With pliers in one pant pocket and a phone playing a ‘70s electronic song in the other, Naomi Hawk stabilized a row of solar panels on an apartment roof in Southeast D.C.