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Established in 1839, the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church has stood as a spiritual beacon in the nation’s capital for nearly two centuries. On the eve of his first inauguration, ladies and gentlemen dressed in fur and wool waited in a long…

Sweeping changes to campaign-finance regulations in the nation’s capital are on track to become law after Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) opted not to veto legislation passed by the D.C. Council.

Federal investigators criticized D.C.'s fire chief for denying access to a senior citizen apartment complex after a devastating fire ripped through the building near Navy Yard in Southeast in September.

In a signal of her disapproval, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has opted to leave unsigned a bill that prohibits homeowners from renting out, on a short-term basis, homes other than their primary residences. The legislation, which the D.C.…

Last year, homicides in the District were up 38 percent. There were 160, compared with fewer than 90 in 2012. Yet violent crime overall has been declining year after year. Last year, assault with a dangerous weapon was down 10 percent. The…

Democracy depends on transparency in its public institutions. To ensure that the needs of all people are served, residents and public officials must have the right to inquire and criticize. There is no institution for which this is truer…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Friday that she plans to equip the District’s police officers with a life-saving overdose antidote, reversing her administration’s previous opposition to an initiative supporters say will help…

Stories abound of citizens pitching in to pick up trash on federal land while government workers are furloughed have made headlines. But hundreds of volunteers are being turned away: people with regular volunteer gigs are being told to stay…

In Washington, the Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens had to cancel its Martin Luther King Jr. “Day of Service” on Saturday because the partial government shutdown has the gates locked at the national park along the Anacostia River.

Mayor Bowser announced on Friday that she will move to equip D.C. police officers with naloxone, a lifesaving opioid overdose antidote.

A machine scans your body. A device sequences your DNA. Information populates the screen in front of you.

The partial federal government shutdown is losing Metro 16 percent in average weekday rail ridership and 8 percent in average weekday bus ridership, per a “preliminary analysis” of the shutdown’s impacts on Metro that the transit agency…

Update: Frager's will likely open at Penn 11 in late March.

Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to add more officers to the Metropolitan Police Department. Councilmember Vince Gray wants to know why it took her so long to make that call.

Mayor Muriel Bowser quietly vetoed the Fare Evasion Decriminalization Act earlier this week, writing in a letter to D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson that the bill will hurt the already cash-strapped agency and that “we should not…

WASHINGTON — Its predecessor was burned to the ground by the British, and as WTOP told you around Halloween, it may contain a ghost.