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With American sports stirring back to life, sports gambling in the nation’s capital entered a new phase Friday with the opening of the District’s first sportsbook.

The pastor of a Catholic church on Capitol Hill who urged people not to “cower in fear” of the novel coronavirus has contracted covid-19, the disease the virus causes, prompting D.C. health officials to tell about 250 staff and…

National Farmers Market Week begins Sunday and D.C. has been awarded the Number 1 spot on the 2020 American Fitness Index rankings list of the nation’s top 100 cities with access to farmer’s markets.

A beloved school bus driver who enjoyed making friends with children from different cultures. A young woman following her mother into a career in the culinary arts. A man killed nine days after his father died of cancer.

Months after being forced to close due to the pandemic, independently owned music venues in DC continue to call on Congress to pass relief measures.

D.C.-area lawmakers are pushing a measure that would create a centralized system to track complaints about helicopter noise in the region similar to ones used to collect information about airplane noise.

More than two months after the Black Lives Matter protests kicked off in D.C., the demonstrations continue. While the camera crews and extremely large crowds may be mostly gone, protestors say they still want their demands heard.

He had five days to move out of the house in Brightwood Park, and now Daniel Vought stood looking at the plastic crates stacked in the living room holding his things. T-shirts. Power cords. Pokémon cards and stuffed animals. His beloved…

Curtis Justin Hillyer drew his last breath at 3 p.m. on Aug. 5, 1906, on a southbound train returning to Washington from Nova Scotia. The 78-year-old lawyer had traveled to the Canadian province for his health, but had told his son he…

A day after Carmen Garner drove across the Washington region to visit five boys at their homes, he is still thinking of the walk to one child’s front door.

Two protesters outside a Planned Parenthood facility were arrested and charged with defacing public or private property early Saturday, according to D.C. police and video footage.

The region’s top transportation board has endorsed a proposal for a network of trails stretching across the greater Washington region, from Frederick, Md., to Prince William County, Va., that would expand the amount of off-road bicycle and…

Donations to World Central Kitchen have evaporated. Food security services that the chef’s nonprofit offered to entire cities, like Atlanta, have ended altogether.

With all events on D.C.’s Capital One Arena schedule canceled or postponed right now due to the coronavirus pandemic, the dormant box office has found a new use: It has become a temporary sportsbook.

Members of a Northwest D.C. community are reviving an effort to remove from a fountain the name of a village founder who supported segregation.

Authorities in the District made public for the first time on Friday videos from police body cameras and surveillance cameras of two separate fatal shootings by officers in 2018, and said those cases were ruled justified in the use of…

The federal government has refused requests from jurisdictions including D.C. and Maryland to extend a food-stamp program waiver past August. This means that despite the ongoing pandemic, needy families will once again be required to prove…

TGIF. With the DC Council's emergency public safety reform legislation now in effect, Mayor Muriel Bowser today released edited body camera footage in three high-profile killings of Black men by Metropolitan Police Department officers in…

At breakneck speed Brooke Pinto has gone from virtually unknown to one of only 13 DC councilmembers, who, along with the mayor, oversee the city’s $8.5 billion budget. As the dust settles on Pinto’s stunning win, questions about the…

Like other tenants of the Park View Apartments complex, David Bonilla had to move out of his apartment in January while the building was renovated. When the residents return Bonilla predicts they will likely have to pay a much higher rent,…