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D.C. is the first U.S. city to test a system that sends real-time information about curbside parking availability to delivery drivers — a move its developer hopes will make food deliveries more efficient and reduce driver stress.

Mel Krupin, who presided over the dining room of Duke Zeibert’s, one of Washington’s leading power restaurants of the 1970s, like a drill sergeant and later battled his former boss in the “Matzoh Ball War” after opening a competing…

Marchers protesting for racial justice confronted police and toppled newspaper boxes and set some of them on fire Saturday night in the Adams Morgan section of Northwest Washington, before converging near the White House and prompting a…

Now that the March on Washington has come and gone, youth leaders are calling on their generation to continue the movement for real change. One of those leaders — Ty Hobson-Powell — had the chance to share his message at the march Friday. …

The coronavirus pandemic has inspired a number of rent strikes in the D.C. region, including in one of the city’s largest and most notable buildings.

If you ask Joy Jones what excites her about jumping rope, she'll tell you “double dutch incites joy, when people start jumping.”

Every city is a palimpsest, the new put down over the old, just as the old was put down over the even older.

Before the world became familiar with actor Chadwick Boseman and his portrayals of Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, James Brown or as the Black Panther in the movies, he was a Howard University Bison.

Actor Chadwick Boseman’s shocking death at age 43 hit close to home for many Washingtonians, especially at his alma mater, Howard University.

The first months were uncomfortably quiet. Justin Ralston, principal at Roosevelt High School, was the only school employee in the high-ceilinged, 331,000-square-foot building in Northwest Washington.

Roger Mitchell Jr.'s job hasn’t gotten any easier since he stepped in as D.C.'s chief medical examiner in 2014 — and this month it expanded significantly.

Some protesters who stayed in the District after the March on Washington ended Friday afternoon continued to spread their message, and elements of mayhem, around the city by temporarily shutting down major roads and tussling with police,…

Organizers at the 2020 March on Washington wanted to make one thing clear: The dream Martin Luther King Jr. shared at the 1963 march has not yet become a reality.

TGIF! Washingtonians showed up outside the White House last night, cranking go-go music in a fervent protest of President Donald Trump and police brutality.

Just past dawn Friday, more than a half-century after Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the Lincoln Memorial’s marble steps and offered his vision for a fair and righteous America, thousands of protesters descended on the nation’s capital at…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Capping a week of protests and outrage over the police shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin, civil rights advocates on Friday denounced police and vigilante violence against Black Americans at a commemoration of the 1963…

New restaurant development has dropped off, but we won't see the impact for another year.

The District of Columbia never planned to host the RNC, but the coronavirus pandemic brought the Republican Party’s quadrennial convention here anyway. As President Trump planned to accept his party’s nomination in the Rose Garden Thursday…

A Shaw rowhome just listed for sale may have set the new high mark for asking price in the historic Northwest D.C. neighborhood.

On the eve of the March on Washington 2020, Bridzette Lane shared her memories from the day her 18-year-old son Ralphael Briscoe was fatally shot by a D.C. police officer in 2011.