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The D.C. Council is set to vote Tuesday on a budget proposal written by chairman Phil Mendelson (D) that reallocates funds toward new initiatives aimed at closing the city’s racial wealth gap — including legislation that would kick-start a…

Housing advocates call councilmembers and residents to action ahead of Tuesday’s Council budget vote

It's hosted celebrities and politicians including presidents Obama and Trump — their likenesses at least — but Madame Tussauds wax museum appears to have permanently burned out in the District.

A rain delay on a baseball game — because it was raining bullets outside — is so very American.

Enrique Tarrio, a leader of the extremist group the Proud Boys, pleaded guilty Monday to burning a Black Lives Matter banner stolen Dec. 12 from a historic African American church in Washington during a tumultuous demonstration by…

Thousands of low-income D.C. children could start getting annual payments of up to $1,000 later this year under a “baby bonds” program that D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson is including in the city’s budget.

It could be early 2022 before the embattled D.C. crime lab regains its full accreditation to perform forensic testing, the lab’s interim director told a panel of science advisers last week.

For David Boyd, a $10,000 grant from a newly created, national Black Restaurant Accelerator couldn't have come at a better time.

The interim director of D.C.’s 911 system has ordered mandatory overtime amid concerns that not enough call-takers are on-hand to deal with emergency calls.

With school districts around the country increasingly adding virtual learning for the fall, three D.C. charter networks are seeking approval for their own all-virtual options, citing parent demand amid pandemic safety concerns.

Washington Nationals ownership and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser denounced a Saturday shooting outside Nationals Park that left three people with injuries that were not life threatening.

Take a walk down the streets of D.C. today, and you’ll quickly notice that neighborhoods have changed. Well over a year into the pandemic, and many small businesses are still struggling to survive.

D.C. parents are suing city officials over a new law that allows children 11 and older to acquire vaccines without permission from parents.

D.C. police are still looking for the shooter who opened fire and killed a six-year-old girl Friday night. The tragedy left a city brimming with anger all weekend, and it happened on the three-year anniversary of a 10-year-old being gunned…