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D.C.’s Woodrow Wilson High School may soon have a partial name change.

London Williams and Stephanie Toledo were on a date when they saw the crowd at Black Lives Matter Plaza. The couple stopped and crouched around an iPhone, streaming the scene from Minneapolis. Williams anxiously clutched his masked face.

Rep. Nancy Mace on Tuesday offered reporters her opinion on why D.C. should not be granted statehood.

The jury has made its decision and found a former Minneapolis police officer guilty in the killing of George Floyd, whose death last summer sparked worldwide protests calling for police reform.

A deep sense of relief rippled across the nation’s capital shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday as the guilty verdicts in the trial of Derek Chauvin were announced in a Minnesota courtroom. George Floyd died 1,100 miles from Washington, but his…

The D.C. Council on Tuesday advanced amendments to the massive blueprint that will shape city development in coming years, though several lawmakers voiced concerns that the changes do not adequately address systemic racial and…

Gingkos are one of D.C.’s iconic trees — second only, perhaps, to the famous blossoming cherry trees. The ginkgo’s unique, fan-shaped leaves turn a shocking yellow in the fall, creating corridors of autumnal color, then drop all at once,…

After years of public debate and development delays, the DC Council resumed consideration of amendments to the city's Comprehensive Plan on Tuesday — and the implications of passage remain unclear.

Tony Lewis Jr. was 9 years old when his father was sentenced to life in prison for drug dealing. A father in prison is known to increase the chances of the son following in his footsteps. Not so with Lewis. He went to college, not jail.

The final departure Monday night out of Gate 35X began with a water cannon salute and ended in the most Gate 35X way possible: a delay because of maintenance issues.

D.C.’s schools chancellor on Tuesday proposed renaming Woodrow Wilson High in Northwest Washington after August Wilson, the celebrated playwright known for his revelatory art about the African-American experience in the 20th century.

Washington Sports Club’s parent company will pay D.C. $100,000 as part of a settlement over allegations that it did not adhere to the city’s COVID-19 emergency protocols and put customers at risk.

D.C. officials have selected a team of developers to remake a pair of shuttered schools near Truxton Circle into a mix of apartments and for-sale townhomes, including some managed by a community land trust to build opportunities for…

The Biden administration issued a policy position Tuesday in support of D.C. statehood, forcefully backing legislation to make the District the 51st state ahead of a House vote scheduled for Thursday.

As the D.C. Council prepares to debate and propose amendments to the city’s Comprehensive Plan, a new analysis from the Council’s Office of Racial Equity has issued a withering assessment of the plan’s impact on racial equity.

The White House said Tuesday that it “strongly supports” a bill heading to a House vote later this week that would make D.C. the 51st state, saying that passing the bill into law would “make our Union stronger and more just.”

More than a year after the coronavirus pandemic brought in-person instruction to a grinding halt, colleges and universities across the region are hoping the increasing availability of COVID-19 vaccines could signal a return to some…

The Biden administration has officially backed statehood for D.C.

Upon learning to read while enslaved, Frederick Douglass began his great journey of emancipation, as such journeys always begin, in the mind. Defying unjust laws, he read in secret, empowered by the wisdom of contemporaries and classics…