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WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a tale with everything you’d need for a soap opera: star-crossed lovers, a stable relationship threatened by younger suitors, pregnancy and loss, and a hungry raccoon.

As commuters complain about potholes, the National Park Service believes it has less than half the money it would need to fix key routes like the George Washington Parkway, Baltimore-Washington Parkway and Rock Creek Parkway.

In a city where protests are akin to a competitive — and sometimes combative — sport, Robin Bell has found a way to separate himself from the pack.

One resembles a prom dress, embellished with lace and flowers.

Some fans headed to Audi Field for D.C. United games may have to walk farther this season.

One of D.C. most successful professional athletes and philanthropists recently got a unique honor — his own day.

Hundreds of revelers, including many of D.C.’s political and cultural elite, celebrated the grand opening of the region’s seventh Busboys and Poets on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE during a red-carpet extravaganza.

D.C. Council member Vincent Gray recently held a crime summit in his ward and encouraged the residents not to complain about criminal lawbreaking but to do something about it.

In the weeks leading up to their spring symposium, the staff at Friendship Place, a Northwest-based housing provider, wants to expand the conversation about housing instability so that elected officials, and other involved parties,…

Children from the Department of Recreation’s Southeast Tennis and Learning Center (SETLC) are entertaining and educating audiences from ‘East of the River’ to the Kennedy Center with their 13th annual “Blacks in Wax” performance, with this…

Two afternoons a week, Mikala Tardy walks six blocks from Eastern High School to Payne Elementary School, not far from Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

IT IS likely that the D.C. Council next week will formally reprimand member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) for alleged violations of the city’s code of conduct. Also likely is that the expected move will fail to satisfy many people. Supporters of…

Please don’t refer to that bunch stashed in the John A. Wilson Building as the “D.C. Council.” Call it what it has become: the D.C. Club.

A Maryland man collected more than $120,000 by fraudulently renting out soccer fields that belong to D.C. Public Schools, District officials allege in a court file unsealed Friday.

An ongoing team of volunteers and organizations working to clean up the channel along the Southwest Waterfront in D.C. has removed enough wood and debris to fill four 30-yard dumpsters as of Friday.

Aira, new technology which can be used at all Smithsonian institutions, connects visitors to an agent who describes their surroundings.

This St. Patrick’s Day, a local beer hall is hoping for more than a little luck. Franklin Hall is hosting a fundraiser on Sunday to support Nathan Epps, a staff member who will have surgery to donate a part of his liver to his 8-month-old…

The rollout begins on March 18 and comes after a pilot program for the motorized bikes launched last year