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D.C. regulators will start inspecting marijuana gifting stores in September for health code, tax, and licensing violations, potentially increasing the pressure on businesses that some local legislators say have been skirting the law and…

Days after a lightning strike at Lafayette Square near the White House, the family of survivor Amber Escudero-Kontostathis raised more than $30,000 for her medical bills.

An annual study of the well-being of children across the country shows a dramatic jump in the number of children and teenagers facing “a mental health crisis.”

The blast killed a retired couple from Wisconsin and a bank official from California. A woman raising money for refugees was badly wounded but survived.

For the past few weeks, Rose Koepsell has awakened to one of the best views in Washington.

“Can anyone tell me the definition of mental health?” Paulson Obiniyi asked the class of nearly a dozen seventh- and eighth-grade boys.

The music festival was back and fully in-person for the first time since before the pandemic

A person could live in Washington and never know about the National Deaf Life Museum. But visitors come from across the world.

A D.C. police sergeant who fatally shot a man is heard on body-camera video yelling “gun” several times just before firing in a park last week in Northwest Washington, but the footage does not show what threat, if any, prompted the deadly…

The shooting of a special police officer during a training exercise at a D.C. library came as the group of trainees had gathered to take a picture and were “joking around,” according to court documents.

Officials in D.C. on Friday released body-worn camera footage showing the moment an officer fatally shot a man last weekend, saying the video doesn’t answer all the questions about the shooting but that an investigation is ongoing.

D.C. Police on Friday released body-worn camera footage and the name of the officer who fatally shot Kevin Hargraves-Shird in a park in Northwest last Saturday, an incident that has prompted calls for accountability from his friends and…

Ahead of a D.C. Council hearing in January 2020, the Bowser administration told lawmakers that one of the city government’s top priorities for the coming year would be reducing gun violence and making the District a model city for police…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon rejected a request from the District of Columbia seeking National Guard assistance in what the mayor has called a “growing humanitarian crisis” prompted by thousands of migrants being bused to the city from…

The Biden administration on Friday denied D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s request for assistance from the National Guard to help the city process the busloads of migrants that Republican governors in Texas and Arizona have been sending to…

The U.S. Department of Defense has denied D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s request for National Guard support to aid migrants who are being bused to D.C. by Republican governors.