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FINISHING TOUCHES are being put on plans to modernize Union Station and remake it into a world-class transit hub. The project has been more than a decade in the making and is seen as a singular economic and transportation opportunity for…

Looking out at the people across the National Mall, 54-year-old Dawn Craig, a third-generation Black Washingtonian from Brookland, was amazed. Thousands from across the country had come to her city Saturday to support not only voting…

Inspired by the Freedom Rides 60 years ago, civil rights advocates mobilized in Washington, DC, on Saturday against the backdrop of the US Capitol for the first ever national rally in support of DC statehood.

Some neighbors say they now have no easy way to access certain transportation, even get groceries.

Local leaders joined Black Voters Matter for a rally on the National Mall to push for D.C. statehood and voter rights.

A new community pantry is giving residents in Southeast D.C. access to free, healthy meals.

The first official weekend of summer looks to make its presence felt with intense heat, and the District is responding accordingly.

The D.C. Council has appealed to the National Park Service to keep cars off a scenic stretch of Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park

One of the D.C. region’s largest youth sports organizations is rebranding itself, removing the name of a revolutionary figure with a racist past, as it prepares to recommit to provide soccer to area youth following the pandemic.

The seven-day average for new coronavirus deaths in the city went down to zero on Friday, with no deaths reported over the past week.

You’ll see some modernized faregates the next time you’re headed to catch a Metro train.

The latest DC institution to rebrand itself due to a problematic moniker is long-running youth-sports league DC Stoddert Soccer, which was named after the first Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin Stoddert. Like the blandly named Washington…

When the Enik Alley Coffeehouse opened in a brick-lined carriage house near H Street in the early 1980s, the crack epidemic was ravaging the surrounding communities, and AIDS had left so many dead that the pages of the Washington Blade…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal freeze on most evictions enacted last year is scheduled to expire July 31, after the Biden administration extended the date by a month.

A D.C. police officer and a Maryland woman have been indicted for a scheme in which the officer is accused of giving out identifying information of traffic crash victims in exchange for cash payments.

And that's not the only good local news on the pandemic.

Even Pride Month hasn’t been enough for some of Greater Washington’s gay bars and clubs to really recover from the pandemic — but the problem is no longer the volume of foot traffic.

Casa Ruby, the multicultural nonprofit organization that provides housing and other support services to D.C.’s LGBTQ+ youth, has gone international.

D.C. can’t seem to get money out the door quickly enough to help everyone who has asked for assistance with rent.