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Last week’s killing of 13-year-old Karon Blake by a Brookland resident who was reportedly responding to a noise of a car being broken into has prompted anger, anguish, and one still-unsettled question to city officials: Why haven’t any…

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo will stick with its policy requiring online passes to enter the facility “indefinitely,” despite pushback from D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, according to a zoo spokesperson.

Residents, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners, and D.C. Councilmembers are concerned about changes the District Department of Transportation made to the traffic safety improvement request process for things like speed bumps and stop signs…

Complex legislation designed to help local solar companies prompted an unusual fight among environmentalists.

After several recent deaths, D.C. is designing an anti-suicide barrier for the William Howard Taft Bridge that connects Woodley Park and Kalorama. But while community support for the project is increasing, funding has yet to solidify.

D.C.’s attorney general is investigating Adams Morgan’s business improvement district (BID) to determine whether the organization violated laws governing nonprofits, according to documents and BID officials.

Amid confusion over the implementation schedule for Initiative 82, the DC Council is slated to consider emergency legislation Tuesday to clarify that the first increase to the tipped minimum wage would take effect March 1.

The George Washington University has named its 19th president to lead the D.C. school.

After the second suicide at Northwest D.C.’s William Howard Taft Bridge in less than a year, the District Department of Transportation reacted publicly Wednesday, assuring that suicide prevention barriers would be installed there soon.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton had raised concerns about access to the online passes.

The next president of George Washington University, a sociologist, is provost of the Rochester Institute of Technology

Should Gustavo Petro ever tire of being president of the Republic of Colombia, there’s at least one local resident who would elect him to public office in the District of Columbia.

Speaking in a packed room at the Busboys and Poets in Anacostia on Tuesday, D.C. activists held up large red signs with large white letters: “THOU SHALT NOT KILL.”

Hundreds of people filled the auditorium at the Turkey Thicket recreation center in Northeast D.C. on Tuesday night to demand answers and support the family of Karon Blake, the 13-year-old fatally shot by a neighbor over the weekend.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The fatal shooting of a middle-school student has sparked public uproar as the nation’s capital struggles with rising tensions about violent crime and racial justice.

Four days after a man shot and killed 13-year-old Karon Blake, police have neither identified nor arrested the known shooter.

The city is getting its first new public high school in decades. It’s opening this fall at the former Georgetown Day School on MacArthur Boulevard.

The Walmart Supercenter in H Street NW, one of the area’s more affordable grocery stores, has begun restocking its shelves after being almost bare of groceries for days.

The new chair of the DC Council's Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety is joining with her predecessor on an effort to override the mayor's veto of the Revised Criminal Code Act.

The social media app suspended the @metrobusinfo account on Tuesday for about six hours and gave Metro transit officials no explanation