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A vacant building with ties to two neighborhoods may soon be restored as residential.

After graduating from college in 2015, Antonio Myers, 25, had some trouble finding steady work. He was a marketing assistant at a nonprofit. Then, he became a mail clerk at a federal agency in D.C. He had two stints of unemployment — one…

When the temperature climbs above 90 degrees, neighbors often head to the Deanwood Community Center on 49th Street Northeast -- hoping to cool off at the facility's indoor poor.

Two of Shanda Smith's children were murdered in 1993. Decades later, she's working on quilts to remember them.

It’s game night at Lou’s City Bar, with the Redskins’ crushing preseason defeat to the Cleveland Browns well underway.

Bar owners Geoff Dawson and Mark Handwerger thought Buffalo Billiards would always be around. But this Saturday, their flagship bar is closing after 25 years.

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial opened in 1943, but the effort to clean and restore it is using some 21st-century technology.

You’ve seen those yard signs — “Hate has no home here” — all over liberal D.C., right?

For 42 years, the District’s Human Rights Act has protected workers in the nation’s capital from discrimination and harassment based on race, gender or sexual orientation — with one notable exception.

Humidity has increased 5 to 10 percent since 1970, turning hot summer days even more unbearable

Following the approval of Ballot Initiative 71 legalizing adult-use recreational cannabis in the District of Columbia, Congress prohibited its full implementation. Consequently, cannabis is legal to grow, possess and gift, but cannot be…

To the untrained eye, they may look like Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols or some obscure variety of neume.

The District’s most widely admired and beloved resident turned four on Thursday, charming hundreds of adoring fans as he ate a delicious frozen cake made of diluted juice, fruit, sweet potatoes, and sugar cane at his party.

The memberships cost $25, versus $85 for regular annual memberships

A little over a week ago, Mark Sussman, co-founder of How’s My Driving—a crowd sourced parking and traffic violation tracking app—got an email from one of the app’s users. The person was excited about the dedicated bus lanes along H and I…

Bei Bei the giant panda celebrated his 4th birthday at the National Zoo on Thursday, an occasion that signaled his imminent departure for China.

Neighbors were pretty sure the man on the street had died.

When Melody Marie Brown heard that the teenager who killed her husband had been sentenced to 40 years in prison, she felt vindicated. Nothing could bring Jerome McDaniel back after the .22-caliber bullet had pierced his heart, but at least…

Roi Barnard looks proudly around his eponymous salon at the staircase and wall beside it decorated in images of Marilyn Monroe.