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On a folded, white poster board, Kenithia Alston had glued childhood photos of her son, Marqueese, along with the program from his funeral in 2018.

The D.C. Office of Unified Communications said that a 911 call to report a car that had driven into the Anacostia River was “coded properly,” despite D.C. emergency services not finding the drowned car until more than an hour after the…

There is news that a Republican Congressman has bipartisan support for a bill that would extend the lease for the land in and around RFK Stadium to be used by the District. For many Washington sports fans — snap the fingers — that means…

A new report reveals there may be two downtown D.C.s: one that has successfully overcome the impacts of the pandemic and another still struggling to get by.

As the mayor arrived at Nationals Park for a news conference in the hot stickiness of Thursday morning, a Nationals official took the lectern and started things off with a story.

“This is not Mayberry,” D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said about accounts of thieves running up to valet stands at two downtown restaurants and stealing car fobs and keys.

D.C. organizers, advocates, and elected officials coalesced to tell Congress to keep their Hands Off D.C. and the Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022.

How a unanimously passed piece of D.C. Council legislation sparked a national debate about policing and statehood

Over the years, Carl Sferrazza Anthony has doggedly collected the signatures of eight presidents and eight first ladies on a rare engraving

One year on the job, Randy Clarke has brought Metro back from a train shortage and addressed fare evasion, but the agency still must solve a growing budget gap

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser encouraged residents to take care of each other as she declared a hot weather emergency effective through Sunday

Installation of new fareboxes is ongoing as the transit agency aims to speed up the boarding process and improve bus operations

More than two years after D.C.’s public health emergency ended, the city’s downtown is still struggling to attract a daytime crowd, a new report from the area’s Business Improvement District shows.

U.S. Rep. James Comer, the Republican chairman of the committee that oversees the District, introduced a bipartisan bill Thursday that could be the first step to bringing the Commanders back to the District.

There is new hope for Washington Commanders fans who want the team to move out of Maryland and build a new stadium in D.C., after a bill was introduced in Congress on Thursday related to the RFK Stadium site.

Staffers at the Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection, one of two agencies to emerge from the breakup of the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, believe it is in serious trouble due to poor leadership.

In a squat, nondescript brick building on a residential street in Northeast D.C., workers are using toxic chemicals to produce sealants for the U.S. Navy, and venting the exhaust into a densely packed residential neighborhood of row houses…

Rep. James Comer, the Republican chairman of the congressional committee that oversees the District, introduced bipartisan legislation Thursday that could help D.C. turn the shuttered RFK Stadium site into an attractive new mixed-use…

Just days after the sale of the Washington Commanders, newly introduced bipartisan legislation in the House calls for a 99-year extension of the District's lease for the sprawling RFK Stadium site that would allow mixed-use development…