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Two people were killed in shootings in the District early Sunday, adding to an already violent month in the city, police said.

Former ballerina Julie Kent, one of American Ballet Theatre’s most esteemed stars and the artistic director of the Washington Ballet, recently contracted covid-19. Kent announced her diagnosis in an Instagram post Saturday, which is also…

WASHINGTON (AP) — “Excuse me, can I ask what you’re doing here?” a resident in a southeast Washington neighborhood asks as Sean Kennedy and Erin Gleeson get out of their truck and scour the streets.

TWO YEARS ago on July 16, 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson was shot and killed on her way to buy ice cream in her Northeast D.C. neighborhood. Last July, 11-year-old Karon Brown was fatally shot while running away from a fight that had broken…

In the short, out-of-focus video, Davon McNeal stands in front of a whiteboard fastened to a blue wall and speaks about courage.

The children marching for Davon McNeal through the darkened streets of historic Anacostia this week shouted, “Kids’ Lives Matter.” Adults implored the crowd: “What. Is. His. Name?” to a thunderous ovation of “Davon.”

Hundreds of family, friends, and supporters gathered in Anacostia on Thursday to honor and remember 11-year-old Davon McNeal, who was shot and killed during a Fourth of July celebration in Cedar Gardens, where he used to live.

After what appeared to be a popular pilot program in late June, the Adams Morgan streatery will not close to traffic again through the course of the pandemic.

TGIF. After independent at-large Council member David Grosso called for the ousting of Police Chief Peter Newsham, Mayor Muriel Bowser yesterday defended DC's top cop and called Grosso a "lame duck."

School leaders across the D.C. region are scrambling to prepare classrooms for students in the fall.

“He just was at the wrong place at the wrong time.” That’s simply not true. Eleven-year-old Davon McNeal was at the right place, and at the right time. What’s more, he was doing the right thing.

Toddlers don’t come to Ilumi Sanchez with questions about world geography or algebra. They mostly want hugs, snacks and playtime in a nurturing environment. For more than a decade, Sanchez has exceeded expectations at her home-based…

As protests against police violence picked up steam nationwide in early June, one of the consistent demands from Black Lives Matter demonstrators came in three words: Defund the police.

This was an ill-fated year almost from the start, but on Thursday, locals noted on Twitter that plenty of places in D.C. were giving off bad vibes well before 2020.

At Capital City Public Charter School in Northwest Washington, three students’ parents have died after contracting the coronavirus. Many more grandparents and relatives of the school’s nearly 1,000 students, most of whom are black or…

In mid-June, Gabby Costabile wasn’t showing any symptoms, but she still wanted to get a COVID-19 test out of precaution, as she was returning to the Sirius XM office where she works part time as a producer. She went to the free walk-up…

Because everything is awful, so why not celebrate it!

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser used the term “lame duck” Thursday as she brushed off a councilmember’s call for her to fire the District’s police chief.

No parent should have to be responsible for doing the investigation into their child’s death, but that’s exactly what we had to do when the D.C. police and the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia willfully failed to…

As Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton walked through Lincoln Park the other day, a stranger stopped to call her a hero. Another asked when Congress would ever grant D.C. statehood.