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MIDWAY THROUGH construction of the Washington Nationals’ ballpark, Allen Y. Lew, who oversaw the project as head of the city’s sports and entertainment commission, took the media on a tour. Veteran reporter Tom Sherwood remembers him…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser urged residents and visitors to the nation’s capital to stay home this Independence Day during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Feel free to enjoy the fireworks on the Fourth of July, but plan on watching from home in small groups only, Mayor Muriel Bowser urged residents today. She expressed concern about the coronavirus circulating in the general population, and…

While DC has earned a reputation for being tenant-friendly, and large property owners enjoy membership in influential organizations, a new group wants to look out for the little guy.

The 28th annual The 28th annual RAMMY Awards, the Oscars for local restaurant owners and chefs, has been rescheduled for Sept. 20 — and it will be different.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is suing fossil fuel companies Exxon Mobil, BP, Chevron and Shell “for systematically and intentionally misleading District consumers about the role their products play in causing climate change,” his…

On June 5, as mass protests demanding racial justice continued in the D.C. area, the Joy of Motion Dance Center, a local arts nonprofit that serves thousands of students, posted a Black Lives Matter logo on its Instagram page.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser raised concerns Thursday about the continuing spread of the coronavirus, and discouraged large gatherings for the upcoming July 4 holiday.

Calls are intensifying for the removal of twin Emancipation memorials in Washington, D.C., and Boston that depict a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln’s feet — optics that jar and offend many in a nation confronting racial injustice…

A few blocks from my house stands a bronze monument to Abraham Lincoln, flanked by trees in a bustling park. But a vocal few — armed with bullhorns and invective — now threaten to forcibly topple it after 144 years.

A new study suggests we could be near the bottom.

Ceaira Richardson recited the challenges that make life in her Southeast D.C. neighborhood difficult.

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine filed a lawsuit against gun manufacturer Polymer80 Inc., which sells untraceable partially-assembled semi-automatic rifles and handguns, for advertising and selling illegal guns to District consumers.

Rigid rules and policies hide the bad behavior of D.C. cops from the people they're paid to protect.

With multiple deaths related to COVID-19 occurring in an 18-unit public housing building, tenants clean and care for their own building.

After facing calls from activists to defund the D.C. police, Ward 6 D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen proposed $15 million in cuts to the department’s proposed budget Wednesday.

Attorney general takes consumer protection approach to keeping untraceable guns out of D.C.

After two nights of tense clashes, protesters shut down a major highway as they peacefully marched through the city Wednesday night.