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There was a fire at Skip’s D.C. warehouse early Wednesday; city officials also discovered there had been two fires in the fall involving Skip scooters.

LGBTQ community groups in the District are holding a vigil in Dupont Circle on Friday after several violent incidents in the last week targeting gay and trans people.

All Karl Craven could think to do when he saw his boyfriend, Braden Brecht, getting attacked was to jump on top of him to defend him.

Thirty-two thousand children in the nation’s capital live below the federal poverty line, one of the highest child poverty rates in the U.S. when considered among states, according to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a…

On a Tuesday, Henry Docter stood at the Dupont Circle Metro station and counted the blooming sunflowers. A half dozen had opened their petals, and more than 100 were growing.

Earlier this year, UrbanTurf reported on a nascent proposal to activate Prather's Alley, which went from a thriving commercial and residential corridor with horse stables over a century ago to a loading zone and pedestrian shortcut now.…

BOSTON (AP) — A Boston-based genealogical organization and a Georgetown University graduate who launched a project to trace the family histories of hundreds of black slaves sold by the Jesuits who ran the college in 1838 have teamed up to…

Heurich Brewing's Senate Lager is back, in all its bubbly glory.

Recent reports increasingly point to a slowdown in the Washington regional economy, slower hiring in the District, and stronger private sector employment in the city. A deeper dive into jurisdictional differences across the metropolitan…

D.C. Council member David Grosso (I-At Large) recently resubmitted a bill to legalize prostitution in the District .

In the June 17 editorial “Punishing at-risk students,” the District’s Deputy Mayor for Education Paul Kihn claimed the District bent over backward to help AppleTree find a location for our Tier 1 charter preschool and called us…

Mayor Muriel Bowser is headed on a diplomatic and trade delegation to Israel next week, where she will join the D.C. Chamber of Commerce in trying to attract technology firms and foreign direct investment. She will also be a featured…

Cesar Chavez, my grandfather, spent his life standing up for workers’ rights. His faith in the power of nonviolent organizing to bring about social change and his tireless efforts to build the United Farm Workers union inspired me and many…

D.C. has changed a lot since 1799. That year, the White House was still under construction, Washington was still in office, and Hamilton was played by himself.

Happy Wednesday and Juneteenth. Here's how badly Metro’s board bungled the ethics investigation into Jack Evans:

June 18, 2019 Contact: Jack Miller – 202-225-8050 Norton Sounds Alarm on Scheduled Closing for D.C.’s Only Veteran Outpatient Clinic WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a letter today she sent to…