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When Bernard Demczuk does diversity and cultural awareness training with police, he gives a history lesson. Call it: Why black people distrust police.

The Federal Transit Administration has warned Metro it could face financial hardship if it yields to pressure from the District by restoring late-night service, saying doing so would risk safety by reducing time for maintenance.

As children, many of us were encouraged to learn how to take turns. For some, sharing toys, emotions and common spaces with those around us was an early lesson in societal values. But Compersia, an “intentional community” in the Northwest…

For years, Philip Sambol has wrestled with the question of how, exactly, to open a community-focused, locally-owned, non-profit grocery store in neighborhoods historically overlooked by traditional supermarkets.

The Historic Preservation Review Board approved the nomination of the site last week

WASHINGTON — Metro wants to extend its reduced rail service hours for at least another year, but Mayor Muriel Bowser and members of the D.C. Council weren’t shy to let Metro know they’re unhappy the rail system is not ready to restore full…

Amid a violent January in which 18 people have been killed in the District, city leaders on Tuesday pressed for additional resources for crime prevention, including a new effort to help find jobs for inmates nearing release from the city…

WASHINGTON — As the deadly start to the year in D.C. continues, the police say there aren’t any more shootings than the last few years, but that the circumstances around them are harder to survive.

It’s not just your block that looks like it’s been hit by asteroids: the number of requests for pothole repairs in the District is double what it usually is this time of year.

A former D.C. police officer was convicted in federal court Tuesday on charges he solicited two underage teenage girls online and then paid them for sex, according to court records.

A neighborhood-level elected official in Ward 8 was arrested last Friday for threatening to kill the mother of his child and a fellow commission member in two separate incidents.

In 2016, the D.C. Council unanimously passed a law that reformed the city’s legal standard for who is at fault in crashes involving a car and a pedestrian or cyclist. Under the previous standard, known as “contributory negligence,” injured…

Mayor Muriel Bowser presented a series of violence-reduction strategies on Tuesday during a monthly breakfast with the D.C. Council, announcing continuing efforts to get illegal guns off the streets and curb retaliatory violence through…

Marketing technology firm SocialCode inked a deal for new space at Metropolitan Square as the building's landlord seeks to battle back from a pair of big law firm losses.

The 14th Street Corridor development scene has been a bit quieter lately, with at least two boutique developments temporarily shelved and the two-part Portner Place redevelopment delivering last year.

The museums and zoo were closed for nearly a month due to the government shutdown.

There was no line of people waiting to rush the gates at the National Zoo on Tuesday, the institution’s first day back open after a partial government shutdown left the gates locked for more than three weeks.

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian National Zoo has reopened after the federal government shutdown, and William Lewis and his mom, who came all the way from South Carolina, were one of the first in line.