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For nearly a decade after Jessica Tunon broke up with her boyfriend, the messages kept arriving.

A few weeks ago, the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing was celebrated in a unique way: Images of Apollo 11 were projected onto the Washington Monument. By all accounts, it was pretty cool. But it wasn’t the first time a stirring…

In late July, an employee at a Northwest D.C. coffee shop made a comment about a customer’s Trump 2020 pin. Three days later, following the customer’s complaint and scrutiny directed towards the restaurant, the employee was fired, though…

Two months after a fierce budget battle over the financial health of Events D.C., the District’s independent auditor says the agency is on sound fiscal footing — with one exception.

The Rosewood hotel in Georgetown closed for more than nine months to gut the ground floor and start from scratch. We’re finally getting a look inside.

The U.S. Park Police has released the names of two people killed last month after an SUV driver barreled into a Northwest D.C. park and struck them while they were on a bench.

Happy Monday. The talk of local DC watchers over the weekend was a report that said some prisoners would be eligible for early release under DC Council legislation by Charles Allen, chair of the Judiciary and Public Safety Committee.

Data compiled by the Urban Institute show a digital divide persists in D.C.

A new report is recommending that the D.C. Department of Health investigates allegations of staff abuse at St. Elizabeths Hospital.

It was games everywhere Saturday at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s fifth annual SAAM Arcade, from old school games and consoles to newer games developed by underrepresented communities in the gaming world.

Starting Monday, drivers will pay as much as $7 an hour to park in Penn Quarter and Chinatown — part of a city-sponsored program designed to reduce congestion and improve parking availability in the popular entertainment district.

The standardized test scores at Washington Latin Public Charter School are among the best in the District. The waiting list of families clamoring to enroll in the middle and high school clocks in at more than 1,500 students. And the…

A New York painter created a sprawling tribute to the President, took it on a road show across red-state America, and became a conservative celeb along the way. But what he wanted most was a showing at the National Portrait Gallery. Then…

POLICYMAKERS ACROSS the country have assailed mass incarceration, including by enacting measures intended to slash overlong prison sentences. That’s aimed at correcting real problems, including the risk that lengthy incarceration in harsh…

An operator of the café, located on the grounds of the National Cathedral, says it was a combination of factors, including a previous incident.

Legislation proposed by a member of the D.C. Council that could result in the early release of some prisoners convicted of violent crimes is being praised by criminal justice reform advocates but has faced criticism from the District’s top…

The District Department of Transportation is opening a permit process next week for a four-month pilot that would allow app-based shared motor-driven cycles like Vespas to hit the streets of D.C. The chosen companies are expected to…

A report from D.C. Department of Health shows that in 2018, four people obtained prescriptions for drugs that would allow them to end their lives, and two of those terminally ill patients died after taking the prescribed medication.