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Last week, DC's Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB) unanimously voted in support of an alternate design concept to retrofit a Mount Pleasant laundromat into a residential project.

St. John’s Church is speaking out in support of the Black Lives Matter movement after being used as a backdrop for President Donald Trump’s photo op with a Bible in Lafayette Square.

A D.C. Superior Court judge has partially dismissed a lawsuit George Washington University filed against Universal Health Services Inc., its corporate partner at GWU Hospital in Foggy Bottom, alleging UHS inappropriately diverted $100…

In occasionally tense exchanges, councilmembers demanded answers from MPD Chief Peter Newsham.

Spurred in part by the surge in ridership from last weekend’s protests, Metro has tweaked its pandemic recovery plan to add capacity on trains and buses as the Washington region continues its reopening.

One of my earliest memories is of walking along a burned-out 14th Street in my hometown Washington, D.C., in 1968, holding one parent’s hand as the other pushed my brother in a stroller; I was 4 years old. They took us to witness the…

Hundreds of protesters who minutes earlier had been dancing in the street fell silent when Kenithia Alston described the fatal shooting of her son by D.C. police.

In Ep. 15 of The New Abnormal, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser tells Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson what it was like to be under siege from the president—and how she tried to resist.

Union warns of rise in crime, loss of cops

The Trump administration appears to be retreating from its commitment to quickly remove most of a new fence blocking demonstrators and other members of the public from in front of the White House.

With the D.C. area gradually reopening in the upcoming weeks, hospitality and tourism leaders joined a webinar panel to talk about the current roadblocks for the industry’s recovery and how to keep businesses afloat during the process.

Happy Tuesday. The DC Council voted unanimously to approve police reform legislation, bringing to fruition ideas brought up at public hearings in past years that hadn't gotten legislators' support at the time.

Amid historic protests drawing attention to police misconduct, the D.C. Council passed a major slate of changes Tuesday, banning the hiring of officers with a history of serious misconduct elsewhere, requiring swift release of the names…

School leaders across the nation are preparing to reopen campuses in the fall. And they’re quickly learning that, when it comes to necessary supplies, it isn’t going to be easy — or cheap.

Three Democratic lawmakers are asking federal watchdogs to investigate whether U.S. Park Police broke any laws in routing demonstrators from the square in front of the White House last week.

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine sued the D.C. Housing Authority on Tuesday, saying that the agency endangered thousands of tenants by failing to respond to endemic problems related to drugs and firearms at 10 public housing complexes.…

As George Floyd was being eulogized and laid to rest 1,400 miles away in Houston on Tuesday, protests of his death, police brutality and unequal treatment of African Americans continued in the nation’s capital for the 12th straight day.

Two new members of Congress have signed onto legislation that would make D.C. the 51st state, the week after the president deployed military and federal law enforcement on District streets.

For the past week, D.C. resident Kya Parker has been cooking almost nonstop.