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NEW YORK (AP) — The lease to the Washington, D.C., hotel run by Donald Trump’s family company while he was president, a symbol of his power to GOP politicians who gathered there and of corruption to his critics, has been sold by his family…

When the first booms ripped along the line of bumper-to-bumper cars waiting for students leaving the Edmund Burke School for the day, William James Peterson thought construction scaffolding had collapsed.

A vital resource is getting a new home.

Ward 4 council member Janeese Lewis George is endorsing Ward 5 candidate Zachary Parker, the second lawmaker to back a hopeful in the hotly contested race.

Two years after winning election to the D.C. Council as a left-leaning advocate for supporting middle-class residents and reducing reliance on police, Ward 4 council member Janeese Lewis George announced her endorsement Thursday in the…

A D.C. 911 operator has been put on leave after sending help to the wrong address on Monday, delaying an emergency response to a call in which a woman was found dead, according to District officials.

Ward 4 Council member Janeese Lewis George is wading into the politics of the adjoining Ward 5 — and making a splash with her endorsement this morning of fellow progressive Zachary Parker, currently the Ward 5 member of the State Board of…

The D.C. Housing Authority has picked a new headquarters, setting the stage for the sale and redevelopment of its longtime home on North Capitol Street NE.

Record-setting price will allow Trump to pay off $170 million loan to Deutsche Bank. The property will become a Waldorf Astoria hotel.

A count of people living in shelters and on the streets from Northern Virginia to the District to suburban Maryland reveals that the region has made some progress against the problem of homelessness.

On Cinco de Mayo, President Biden missed an opportunity to call for that to happen.

After the Washington Post reported earlier this week that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was missing nearly two weeks’ worth of coronavirus data from the city (including case numbers, testing, and death counts), DC Health…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has amassed the largest war chest going into the final weeks of the campaign for the Democratic nomination for mayor, campaign finance records submitted this week show, while one of her challengers — council…

Proposed plans to expand D.C.’s Union Station now involve cutting the number of parking spots in about half, moving those spaces underground and rearranging the bus facility so it aligns with the new train hall.

D.C. saw a slight uptick in COVID-19 cases, after a two-week lapse in data reporting to the CDC and no new metrics posted to D.C.’s website since the week of April 24.

DC Health on Wednesday said that its COVID-19 statistics are once again being transmitted to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after a gap of nearly two weeks.

Allen keeps cops out of schools over Mendelson’s wishes, and McDuffie defeats Cheh’s effort to defund the Woodley Park Main Street

More than ten years after Miami-based art collecting couple Don and Mera Rubell bought the old Randall Junior High School site in Southwest D.C., the museum the art moguls envisioned there finally has a plan to open this fall.

DC Fire and EMS will hold a parade along the National Mall on Saturday to celebrate 150 years of serving the District and to honor 101 fallen firefighters.

Lauren Grimes encourages high school students to be involved in civics on a local, national and international level.