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A commission created to help the District reinvent policing is preparing a final report that could propose sweeping changes, including taking officers out of schools, curtailing traffic enforcement and shrinking the department’s size and…

Iran has made threats against Fort McNair, an Army post in the U.S. capital, and against the Army’s vice chief of staff, two senior U.S. intelligence officials said.

Pearl Street Warehouse reopened dining on the first day of spring, but they're still anxiously awaiting rules for live music.

On Saturday, workers were scaling back the fencing that surrounds the U.S. Capitol.

Artist Katherine Ludwig stands on Washington Ave. SW watching and painted the scene with lines of blue ink as a group of five contractors remove razor wire from the 8-ft. black fencing that’s been erected around the Capitol since the…

A new organization in the District is working to educate policymakers and the business community on what it would mean to be the 51st state.

Since 1960, the Monocle has been one of the best-located restaurants in Washington.

Joe Biden visited Southeast Washington in January 2015 to undertake a quintessential vice-presidential duty — inspecting a massive public works project on the banks of the Anacostia River to tout the White House infrastructure agenda.

D.C. restaurants can start serving alcohol until midnight again for both indoor and outdoor dining starting on Monday.

In mid-March in a normal year (remember those?) college seniors would be counting down the days to graduation, administrators would be finalizing commencement ceremony plans and family members would be locking down travel, hotel and…

The Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown is losing its second general manager in six years to the same Texas resort.

The outer perimeter fence at the U.S. Capitol will come down this weekend, earlier than expected, as no credible security threats exist.

Burtell M. Jefferson, who joined the District’s largely segregated police department in 1948 and launched a behind-the-scenes campaign to help Black officers advance through the ranks as he rose to become the city’s first African American…

(CNN) — The outer fencing erected around the Capitol shortly after rioters stormed the building on January 6 will be removed this weekend, earlier than expected, according to the acting House sergeant-at-arms.

Classroom-based learning in schools across the Washington region could expand for spring and look more normal by fall, following changes in safety guidance announced Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

D.C. and Virginia are extending the deadline for their residents to file their income tax returns and pay their taxes to May 17.

While waiting until D.C. issues guidance on holding in-person festivities, Howard University said that it is also moving forward with plans to conduct a virtual commencement in May.

If you passionately believe that Georgetown’s going to go all the way in this year’s March Madness, you can now legally put some money on it — but it will take a trip across the Key Bridge to get it done.

Kiss Tavern, a restaurant and hookah lounge in Shaw, has lost its liquor license for the business’ “willful” violation of the city’s COVID-19 precautions, and alleged attempts to evade enforcement, according to D.C.’s Alcoholic Beverage…

Progressive political strategist Melissa Byrne has been thinking about how protests around the COVID relief bill might have played out if the public had access to the Capitol grounds.