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A bill from Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., would give control of the District’s National Guard to the city’s mayor — and it’s scheduled for markup Wednesday.

Report finds 11 areas in which Metro needs improvement to ensure train operators are fit for duty

Numerous recipients of unemployment benefits in D.C. have received suspicious emails from D.C. government accounts over the last two weeks, indicating a possible intrusion into city computers by scammers attempting to coax confidential…

At least five people have been abducted at gunpoint off streets in the District in recent nights by a gang of robbers who drove the victims to ATMs and took money from their accounts, police said Monday.

Rajah Caruth has been signed to compete in a limited series of NASCAR Xfinity Series races in 2022, which will make the D.C. native the third Black driver actively racing in a NASCAR series and the eighth in its history.

Outside Two Rivers Public Charter School — Young Elementary, a second grade teacher shook a tambourine as he cheerfully welcomed families to the first day of school. A drama teacher greeted youngsters with a puppet draped over one arm. A…

“R&B in D.C.” offers 472 songs from the ’40s and ’50s.

A church is aiming to spur the redevelopment of a Brookland property in what could become one of the first projects affected by changes to a key affordable housing policy D.C. passed earlier this year.

Today’s the first day of school for DCPS and many public charter schools, and thousands of parents aren’t feeling safe with back-to-school safety precautions (or lack thereof).

Chef Edward Lee goes upscale with smoked steaks at Succotash Prime.

The latest Officina opens for morning espressos and after-work Negronis and pastas.

With the Olympics, the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup finals, July was a major month in sports — but Washingtonians weren’t placing many wagers on the city’s legal sports betting app.

Cosentino, a Spanish manufacturer and distributor of stone building materials, plans to open a new location in downtown D.C., where it's targeting the region's commercial real estate industry as one of its few markets nationwide.

When the pandemic cost me my job and apartment, the owners of The Public Option in Langdon Park took me in.

When D.C.’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library celebrates its grand “re-re-opening” this September, the central library will pay homage not only to its namesake, but the local faces — and voices — that have shaped the District over…

Metro has picked a new head of its real estate arm, tabbing a familiar face in D.C. development circles to help the agency manage some of the most valuable properties in Greater Washington.

A newly-renovated home in Northwest D.C.’s Palisades neighborhood has hit the market for just under $3.4 million, a property redeveloped by Darryl Pounds, a former NFL pro who played cornerback for the Washington Football Team from 1995 to…

Students returned to DC Public Schools classrooms on Monday morning — in many cases, for the first time since the pandemic forced a shift to remote learning a year and a half ago.

After years of supposition (and environmental remediation from the site's former automotive uses), a development project is taking shape for Adams Morgan's former Brass Knob architectural salvage warehouse.