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The circumstances of the second-grader’s disappearance from the homeless shelter were unusual, but her vulnerability was not.

On what would have been former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry’s 86th birthday, the District celebrated his life Sunday with live performances and an art auction as part of “Marion Barry Day.”

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A large group of truck drivers who object to COVID-19 mandates drove two loops around the beltway surrounding Washington, Sunday, deliberately moving slowly to impact traffic and make their feelings known to…

The People’s Convoy that came across the country to protest COVID-19 restrictions is wrapping up its second circuit of D.C.’s Beltway Sunday afternoon.

An armada of drivers calling themselves the “People’s Convoy” is circling the Beltway at a deliberately slow speed Sunday as an act of protest against pandemic restrictions.

The space used to be an office, but it is now filled with treadmills, boxing rings and other training equipment. On Saturday, the DC Department of Parks and Recreation celebrated the grand opening of the Columbia Heights Boxing Club at the…

Rising crime in the nation's capital took center stage at the year's first D.C. mayoral debate on Saturday, with Mayor Muriel Bowser and challengers outlining competing approaches to addressing violence.

There were more candidates than vegetable stands at the Palisades Farmers Market last weekend.

For the Capitol Riverfront’s local businesses that haven’t benefited from a “real” baseball season since the Washington Nationals’ fever-pitched World Series run in 2019, this year’s delayed season offers yet another painful hit.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine led a group of 16 attorneys general in filing a friend-of-the court brief Friday that defends a law prohibiting state and local governments from contracting with the federal government to detain…

Since state legislative sessions kicked off, bills to end qualified immunity have been introduced in Virginia and Maryland. But one regional player remains conspicuously absent from these efforts to restore justice for victims of civil…

Now on display around the Smithsonian Castle and Arts and Industries Building, the sculptures celebrate women in STEM.

A groundbreaking ceremony for a new affordable housing complex in Northeast D.C. marks the first phase of the Kenilworth Courts redevelopment.

A private pilot program in D.C. that gives residents a $5,500 one-time payment during the pandemic had substantially lowered mental health stressors and food insecurity, a new study finds.

Metro is getting $120 million in additional funding from the American Rescue Plan, Democratic senators from Virginia and Maryland said Thursday.

BLT Steak, one of downtown D.C.’s priciest restaurants, is slated to reopen this weekend after substantial renovations to modernize the interior.