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In normal times, it’s a place you can watch basketball, hockey, monster trucks, Disney on Ice, Celine Dion, or Tool. But now the Capital One Arena will have a new purpose: polling place.

The DC Police Union is seeking an injunction that would block Mayor Muriel Bowser from publicly releasing the body-camera footage and names of police officers who have “committed an officer-involved death” in the nearly six years since the…

A new academic study of a D.C. coronavirus testing site showed children who were economically disadvantaged or members of a racial minority group were more likely to become infected early in the pandemic.

These scenes in the nation’s capital should be triumphant.

There were at least four shooters and more than 100 rounds fired in Sunday’s deadly Southeast D.C. shooting, police Chief Peter Newsham said Monday.

D.C. has added five states to its list of “high-risk states” and removed three, bringing the total number of states with travel restrictions to 29. Alaska, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Minnesota were added to the existing list, and…

The Park View coffee shop and bar once known as Colony Club is back with a new name. The establishment, which has been closed since the coronavirus pandemic hit D.C. in March, reopened over the weekend as Doubles.

D.C. updated its list of high-risk coronavirus states Monday, removing Delaware — whose beaches are a top destination for summer vacationers from the Washington area.

There's a wrinkle in the statehood bill that could give new power to whoever lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

The coronavirus pandemic and the recession it generated have disrupted transportation plans in the Washington region more than any events in memory, officials and analysts say.

Although most — and in many cases, all — of their classes will be held online, students at District-area universities are still flocking to neighborhoods in and around the city, stoking fears — and questions — of permanent residents who…

Months after a federal jury found a man guilty of sex trafficking and forcing women to prostitute in the Logan Circle and Shaw neighborhoods, authorities have arrested another suspect in connection with the case.

As the need for food relief intensifies, area charities are working to meet the persistent needs during a global pandemic.

D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton shares her intimate perspective on the March on Washington then and now.

When additional EMS units were sent to help in the search for three men who had fallen off a boat into the Potomac River earlier this month, they were initially given an address that was more than four miles from the actual scene.

A 17-year-old is dead — one of at least 21 people, including an off-duty D.C. police officer, who were shot during a large public gathering in Southeast early Sunday morning, according to police.

A 17-year-old is dead and an off-duty police officer is fighting for her life after at least 21 people were shot when a dispute broke out early Sunday at a cookout attended by hundreds of people in Southeast Washington, authorities said.

One person was killed and at least another 20, including an off-duty cop, were injured in a shooting shortly after midnight Sunday at a gathering with hundreds of people in Southeast D.C., according to police.

Judge Stephen F. Williams, a member of the powerful Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit for more than three decades, died Friday of complications from the coronavirus, his family and court officials said.