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Keeping kids warm this winter is the mission of one local organization that is giving away thousands of coats.

The D.C. region’s upward trend of coronavirus cases is beginning to set new records for the area.

Two years ago, when opioid-related fatalities overtook homicides as the District’s leading cause of preventable deaths, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser vowed to cut fatal overdoses in half by this fall.

A D.C. man who works as a violence interrupter in Trinidad was arrested and charged Friday for a killing that occurred almost four years ago.

As if the ZooLights Express truck didn’t encapsulate the essence of 2020 well enough, the 24-foot-long flatbed truck adorned with a lone dancing panda took it a step further by breaking down during its tour of a rainy Ward 3 on Friday…

On an overcast but mild morning in late October, Nathan Harrington pulled up at a dead end in the southern reaches of D.C. His gray pickup truck carried a magnet with the name of the Ward 8 Woods Conservancy — the organization Harrington…

“ABRASIONS AND contusions to the head, face and torso; contusions to the heart and thymus gland; acute abdomen injuries consisting of hemorrhaging of the soft tissue of the abdomen; liver laceration; right kidney laceration; multiple…

A man who worked as a violence interrupter for D.C.’s Office of the Attorney General was arrested and charged for allegedly committing a murder in 2017.

A supervisor for a team of violence interrupters who work to curtail shootings in one of the District’s most dangerous neighborhoods was arrested Friday and charged in a 2017 killing.

TGIF. The region reported a record high of 1,586 confirmed new coronavirus cases on Friday, while DC posted a second consecutive day of over 300 new cases.

On Friday, President-elect Joe Biden said it is “highly unlikely” millions will gather at the National Mall on Jan. 21 for the presidential inauguration.

There are going to be more pro-Trump and MAGA rallies in D.C. on Dec. 12, but they likely won’t be as large as the ones that happened last month, organizers write in their National Park Service permit application.

Facing the worst budget crisis in Metro history, board members on Friday wrestled with how to plan for a half-billion-dollar deficit without proposing draconian cuts that could scare away riders the transit agency desperately needs back.

The District’s public school system is considering eliminating the admission test at the city’s most selective high school, School Without Walls, over fears that the test cannot be administered safely or fairly during the pandemic.

I am fully prepared to entertain the argument that the persons who fired the weapons Wednesday night in Southeast D.C., which struck a vehicle multiple times and killed 15-month-old Carmelo Duncan, strapped in a car seat next to his…

Landlords of affordable housing units have seven days left to apply for housing stabilization grants to cover tenants’ missed rent payments from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The bar's freshly baked cookie assortment was enough for ABRA inspectors, until now.

The D.C. Health Department has announced ambitious new goals for further reducing the spread of HIV in the District over the next decade.

Ahead of his February start at the police department in Prince William County, Virginia, outgoing D.C. police Chief Peter Newsham discussed crime and policing in the District on Friday.

Metro’s proposed budget, which would dramatically scale back service next year, has been a lightning rod for criticism, including some from within the Metro Board of Directors Friday.