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A few blocks from my house stands a bronze monument to Abraham Lincoln, flanked by trees in a bustling park. But a vocal few — armed with bullhorns and invective — now threaten to forcibly topple it after 144 years.

A new study suggests we could be near the bottom.

Ceaira Richardson recited the challenges that make life in her Southeast D.C. neighborhood difficult.

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine filed a lawsuit against gun manufacturer Polymer80 Inc., which sells untraceable partially-assembled semi-automatic rifles and handguns, for advertising and selling illegal guns to District consumers.

Rigid rules and policies hide the bad behavior of D.C. cops from the people they're paid to protect.

With multiple deaths related to COVID-19 occurring in an 18-unit public housing building, tenants clean and care for their own building.

After facing calls from activists to defund the D.C. police, Ward 6 D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen proposed $15 million in cuts to the department’s proposed budget Wednesday.

Attorney general takes consumer protection approach to keeping untraceable guns out of D.C.

After two nights of tense clashes, protesters shut down a major highway as they peacefully marched through the city Wednesday night.

Amid rising demands for racial justice, D.C.’s elected education leaders are calling for a name change at Woodrow Wilson High School — the city’s largest public high school in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Northwest D.C.

Protesters again gathered at Black Lives Matter Plaza in D.C. on Wednesday, despite fencing and a line of guards placed at Lafayette Square.

Facing calls by activists to defund the police, a D.C. lawmaker on Wednesday proposed stripping the department of $15 million and forcing Police Chief Peter Newsham to undergo a council review next year to keep his job.

Nine people were arrested Tuesday night in skirmishes with authorities across from the White House — including one man who also had been arrested the day before, police said Wednesday.

Happy Wednesday. Protests near the White House are again setting up a clash between President Donald Trump and Mayor Muriel Bowser over the appropriate response. Hundreds of unarmed National Guardsmen will be deployed tonight to national…

The Washington Marriott Wardman Park, one of Greater Washington's largest and most historic hotels, is in danger of closing permanently.

Lincoln Park in Capitol Hill was the first public place named for Abraham Lincoln after his death in 1865, and Frederick Douglass and Ulysses S. Grant attended the unveiling of Thomas Ball’s Emancipation Memorial there on the 11th…

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine has filed a consumer protection lawsuit against a gun manufacturer, accusing the company of flooding the District with untraceable firearms.

The Army activated about 400 unarmed members of the Washington, D.C., National Guard to “prevent any defacing or destruction” of monuments, defense officials said Wednesday, as protests over police violence continue alongside efforts to…

After more than a three-month delay due to COVID-19, the Washington Nationals are ready to defend their World Series title at Nats Park. But D.C. needs to approve their return to the city first.

The D.C. Council passed emergency police-reform legislation on June 9 that included measures to bar Metropolitan Police Department officers from using chemical irritants, like pepper spray or tear gas, and less-lethal projectiles, like…