Washington became the 42nd state in 1889. Now, both of its U.S. senators want to see the other Washington — D.C., that is — get granted statehood, too.

With a new D.C. statehood bill in Congress, the idea of the District becoming a state is back in the spotlight.

The capital’s business district emptied out when Covid hit. Reviving it will be hard, even if federal workers all come back ...

WUSA9 reached out to Yesim Sayin, the executive director of the D.C. Policy Center to help answer Jakala's question. Sayin ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned two Washington, D.C., police officers whom a jury found guilty of murder and ...

All individuals held in the D.C. jail on charges and convictions related to the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol have been ...

Animal rescuers in Washington, D.C., teamed up with police and firefighters to rescue a deer stranded in the icy Potomac ...

Pro-life grandmother Joan Bell, sentenced in November 2023 for blocking a D.C. abortion clinic in 2020, was one of the nearly ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday barred Stewart Rhodes, the former leader of the far-right Oath Keepers group ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and his team have acted with stunning speed to begin removing or sidelining hundreds of government workers, while he has also sought to ...

A federal judge on Friday barred Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes from entering Washington, D.C., without the court’s ...