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The Washington region is in the middle of a dangerous heat wave, as the heat index rises past 110 degrees. The situation can be even worse in some underground Metro stations.

Dominic Robinson was part of a group that hung out in front of Nooks barber shop on Sheriff Road, a strip of worn storefronts on the District’s far northeastern edge.

"We really focus on a lot of smaller, mom-and-pop restaurants that don’t get enough attention or exposure."

An 11-year-old boy was fatally shot Thursday night after a fight near a shopping center and gas station in Southeast Washington, according to D.C. police.

Wesley Pruden, an ink-stained newspaperman who rose from a teenage copyboy in Arkansas to pugnacious columnist and editor in chief at the Washington Times, where he helped make the news­paper a favorite of conservatives, died July 17 at…

The cousin of a D.C. Council member who cast a deciding vote for a no-bid sports gambling contract is listed as the chief executive of a business that would receive $3 million under the deal, according to a document obtained by The…

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton July 18, 2019 Contact: Jack Miller WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) slammed the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Secretary Sonny Perdue today, following…

D.C. transportation officials say they will hold focus groups on the project

I’ve heard all the clichés in the course of my 20-year career. In the last eight weeks, I’ve lived them.

“Better, not bigger,” is George Washington University President Thomas LeBlanc’s new mantra for now. After seeing consecutive years of increased enrollment, LeBlanc wants to cut the size of the undergraduate class by 20% over the next five…

The new condo market remains resilient as low supply dampens sales in the DC region.

Skyland Town Center may be a long ways off from completion, but after nearly 20 years of fits and starts, District officials count any progress as reason to celebrate.

The wave of appeals that has delayed thousands of units of D.C. housing in recent years appears to have reached a turning point with a series of court decisions that experts say should give developers confidence.

A reduced speed limit for highway traffic near the Anacostia River bridges still has some drivers reeling.

A Montgomery County affordable housing nonprofit's first foray into D.C. came about because of a law unique to the District in this region.

A D.C. Fire and EMS K9 named Kylie is healing after impaling her paw during a search in a wooded area in Northern Virginia on Wednesday, D.C. Fire officials say.