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The head of the D.C. Council said he wants to toughen the District’s laws to make it easier for renters to get relief from problems with mold.

The Washington Post debuted its first Super Bowl commercial — a message underscoring the importance of newsgathering and the dangers journalists can face — during Sunday’s game between the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams. The…

Frigid weather this winter made it clear to many of the District’s youngest residents: Their schools need reliable heat.

The Washington Post will have a 60-second ad during the Super Bowl, which means it is likely paying somewhere in a neighborhood north of $10 million for the airtime.

The number of hate crimes in the District rose sharply in 2018, nearly doubling the total attributed to bias in the city just two years earlier, according to city statistics.

Federal authorities on Thursday indicted Rowena Joyce Scott, a onetime political power broker in Southeast Washington, on charges including wire fraud, credit card fraud and filing false income tax returns.

WASHINGTON — While hundreds gathered in rural Pennsylvania for Punxsutawney Phil’s annual weather prediction, his lesser-known, somewhat lesser-animated cousin had his own ceremony in D.C.’s Dupont Circle.

When a 15-year-old girl born with HIV became pregnant, she decided to tell no one.

Metro riders — or at least some of its most passionate users and abusers with Twitter handles — took a dim view of the transit agency’s latest service: the ability to offer interactive virtual tours of several subway stations.

Many had spent months in the city jail, or worse, in a federal penitentiary. One had been shot in the chest and survived. District authorities labeled them as people who were likely to again become a victim or perpetrator of a crime.

Chukwuemeka Ekwonna of Glenn Dale, Md., has taken another step toward learning how many years he will spend in prison. That sentencing date can’t come soon enough.

Andrew Trueblood brings fresh eyes and years of government experience to the role

Officials at American University are investigating the sighting of a man wearing a Confederate flag hoodie in a campus dining hall Thursday night.

Given history, it is understandable that supporters and critics of anti-discrimination laws focus on ethnicity. Yet these laws and regulations specifically name other “protected classes,” and efforts to weaken regulations and their…

When Orange, Blue and Silver Line Metrorail trains stop at the Stadium-Armory station, they pause at the gates of the two biggest real estate headaches in the District: To the northeast, RFK Stadium sits empty, with Major League Soccer’s…

Supporters of D.C.’s only full-sized public ice rink are mounting a campaign against Mayor Muriel Bowser’s plan to take funds meant for a full renovation of the facility and use them instead for emergency fixes on 21 D.C. schools,…

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust is looking to sell three of its D.C. hotels.

Annie’s Paramount Steakhouse, a Dupont establishment beloved by D.C.’s gay community, marked its 70th birthday last year, and now it has another cause for celebration: it is one of five restaurants to win the James Beard Foundation’s…

With Montgomery County beginning to consider loosening the restrictions on accessory dwelling units (ADUs), this particular housing style may soon become a more regular part of the region's residential neighborhoods. Today, UrbanTurf takes…