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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,…

Catholic University will invite fewer students to campus this fall as the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the country, the school’s president announced Friday afternoon.

The box office at Capital One Arena in Washington is being transformed into a sportsbook, complete with betting windows and self-serve kiosks, and will begin taking cash bets Friday, a first for an American sports venue.

There are growing calls to bring back a popular pedestrian zone in D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood.