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 ...

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There seems to be a new story every day about potentially deadly working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly 5,000 workers at meatpacking plants in 19 states have tested positive for ...

Kevin Simmers spent years locking up drug dealers and addicts in Western Maryland. But when the opioid crisis found its way into his own home, the veteran police officer learned that everything he ...

The Democratic gains in Virginia House of Delegates were fueled by a slate of candidates from Northern Virginia, including one former Marine who openly called himself a democratic socialist on his way ...

A new report from the National Women's Law Center looks at the work student activists and policymakers are doing to promote equitable school dress codes in D.C.

A decades-old D.C. law prohibits owners of full-service gas stations from converting them to anything else. But a developer who owns a Petworth gas station is arguing that the law is unconstitutional.

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Of all new HIV diagnoses in D.C., a city filled with public policy and health think tanks 41 percent are with young people -- the highest rate in the past 10 years. City advocates say more outreach to ...

In the 1980s and ’90s, Dupont Circle was the closest thing D.C. had to San Francisco’s freewheeling Castro District. It was a place where you could buy an oil painting, browse lesbian erotica and ...

The weather is warm, the calendar has flipped to May, and far too many fun events are going on in D.C. this Saturday. So, how do you decide what to do? How do you cram as much as possible into one day ...