DC was only part of the U.S. to pay off slave owners for freeing enslaves persons they held.

Andy Ogles of Tennessee and U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, both Republicans, introduced legislation to overturn the District of Columbia Home Rule Act of 1973. Ogles said in February that D.C. Mayor ...

A new report ranked the country’s longevity hotspots based on factors such as gender, family, volunteering, religious ...

O utsiders may think of D.C. as a city of stodgy politicos, but its food scene boasts a hotbed of creativity for the people ...

As Bowser marks her 10th anniversary as mayor, this annotation of portions of her first State of the District speech examines ...

State officials see an opportunity in the Trump administration’s push to move federal agencies out of the D.C. area, and they ...