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New arrest data shows that Black D.C. residents are arrested almost seven times as often as white residents for opioid-related offenses, which advocates say bolsters their case for decriminalization and the need to move funds away from…

White looks to be the first Fair Elections candidate to finish in the red, raising questions about the program.

As students in the D.C. region return to the classroom, school officials face an academic school year full of challenges, including staff shortages, enforcing vaccination mandates and ensuring the safety of students and staff.

Before the shuttered Wendy’s at “Dave Thomas Circle” in Northeast D.C. gets razed, it’s getting a facelift from DC Walls.

Across the Washington region, more students headed back into classrooms as Maryland’s two largest districts and D.C. public schools began classes today.

In its current session, the D.C. Council has mandated how often hotels must clean their rooms and at what frequency movie theaters must show films with closed captioning, among other measures narrowly targeting businesses’ inner…

Twin lawsuits in the D.C. area show just how fleeting the direct impact of civil litigation can be for incarcerated people

Families collected back-to-school supplies and got vaccinations ahead of the first day for D.C. public schools.

Among the several hundred thousand people who attended the March on Washington, on Aug. 28, 1963, is a Washington woman who says she can remember where she stood to hear Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders speak.

Henry D. Cogswell was one of those guys who got rich then decided the world should notice him. And it did, though perhaps not in the way he intended.

Sean Doolittle is from New Jersey, and Eireann Dolan, his wife, grew up outside Chicago. But don’t get them going about the fact that the 689,000 or so residents of the District of Columbia have no voting representation in Congress.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Medical providers at Children’s National Hospital in Washington have become the latest targets of social media campaigns harassing U.S. hospitals for the treatments they offer transgender youths.

The prisoners’ deaths last month have raised questions for relatives and revived discussions about the city’s practice of sending residents to prisons across the country

Children’s National Hospital has been inundated with threatening emails and phone calls after an influential right-wing Twitter account published a recording that falsely suggested the hospital is performing hysterectomies on transgender…

Earlier in the day, many first-year students walked out of convocation to show support for staff

The Washington Improv Theater has found a home — for now.

American University’s staff union has reached an agreement with the school administration after a five-day strike during student welcome week.

A new home for the horses used by the U.S. Park Police will open soon, and should be completed before the end of the year along the National Mall.