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Children and families in D.C. may get an opportunity to better prepare for the future with a new program that hopes to help Ward 8 families build savings accounts.

During the weeks-long debate over whether Metro should restore late-night service, one question remained unanswered: What exactly has the transit agency been doing with all the extra time it gained by closing early?

And you thought romance was dead.

When a 911 call comes in from DC, depending on where the person is calling from, they may or may not get an ambulance responding. It’s part of a new program routing ambulances to the most dire emergencies.

At the Washington National Cathedral, brick by brick a LEGO replica of the iconic Northwest D.C. church takes shape with the help of visitors. The cathedral hopes the project will bring in more than $800,000 to help with repair costs from…

Earlier this week, Methodists from around the world gathered in St. Louis for a specially-called general conference to address one issue: what is the church’s stance on LGBTQ marriages and clergy?

Virginia Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine announced Friday that they are throwing their support toward making the District of Columbia the 51st state, overcoming years of concerns about the possibility of a commuter tax that critics worry…

D.C. Council Member Jack Evans has repeatedly emailed business proposals to law firms that lobby District officials, offering his connections and influence amassed as the city’s longest-serving lawmaker.

The former Ibiza nightclub site in NoMa will be redeveloped as a citizenM hotel, the second of outpost of the European chain in Greater Washington.

It’s not every day that a police chief publicly scolds lawmakers who oversee his department. But in January, and again last month, D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham unceremoniously rebuked two D.C. council members who had the unmitigated…

Only three households remain at Barry Farm, the historic 444-unit public housing community the District and its partners hope to redevelop in the coming years.

District officials failed to spend $3 million in federal lead remediation grants, rendering the city ineligible for additional money and forcing D.C. to shut down a program to protect poor children from lead poisoning.

Nearly eight years after an earthquake rattled the DC area, the Washington National Cathedral is still rebuilding. Now, as part of its ongoing fundraising efforts, you can help the Cathedral be rebuilt, albeit on a much smaller scale.

On the rarest of occasions, I get invited to a press event so expertly crafted, so perfectly off-the-wall that I can shrug off my cloak of reportorial cynicism, overlook the shtick and spectacle, and just enjoy the beauty of the shared and…

The intersection of Florida Avenue and New York Avenue in NoMa has long bedeviled pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers, because of the triangle-shaped plot of land plopped at the center.

D.C. is debating when to hold its primary for the 2020 presidential contest. Right now, the District is slated to go in late June, last in the country.

Chime the bells.

D.C.’s Humane Rescue Alliance is offering a reward for anyone who can help find someone who hurt a dog so badly with an ax that she had to be euthanized.

The D.C. Auditor released a report on Thursday describing deteriorating, unsafe conditions inside the D.C. Jail, and calling for increased maintenance funding for the aging facility.