Protesters at anti-racism rallies across the country are coming face to face with police, but also with heavily armed civilians. America’s gun laws make it difficult to diffuse the tension.

Early reports found death rates as high as 90% among COVID-19 patients on ventilators. But some hospitals are now reporting mortality lower than 30%.

What exactly is the tipped wage, how will Initiative 82 change it, and how will that impact bars and restaurants? We've got some answers.

"It is the city in miniature," says Ellen Drogin Rodgers, a George Mason University professor who helped coordinate the project. Preschoolers learn traffic safety basics. In second grade, DCPS teach ...

Brian Butcher, a history teacher at Ballou High School, sat in the bleachers of the school’s brand new football field last June watching 164 seniors receive diplomas. It was a clear, warm night, and ...

While tens of thousands of KKK members marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in 1925, the marches and rallies held in D.C. since then have seen far more counter-protesters than actual white supremacists.

There seems to be a new story every day about potentially deadly working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic. The efforts are driven in part by millennials and GenZers who “get it and ...

For years, powdered cocaine was D.C.'s drug of choice, but when crack hit the streets, the city was plagued by levels of addiction and violence that caught residents, police and politicians by ...

Rising sea level. Hotter days. Unpredictable weather — how climate change is playing out in the region.

Author Caty Borum discusses her new book that looks at how comedy is being used to create societal change and bring awareness to injustice.

A Silver Spring native and Howard University graduate, Elliott led the community-based health clinic through the pandemic, and says he wanted to expand the center’s partnerships as he moves into his ...

Despite wanting to see the D.C. General family homeless shelter closed, some homeless advocates say Mayor Muriel Bowser's plan to do so this year could cause more problems than it solves.