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In forests in the eastern U.S., it can be easy to miss the fact that things are going awry. Elsewhere, in places like the Rocky Mountains or the Sierra Nevada, the signs may be more obvious: a whole ...

Every year, about 500 identifiable people in D.C. drive as much as 70% of the city’s gun violence, according to a new report commissioned by the city. The study was authored by the National Institute ...

On Tuesday, amid the morning traffic of Metrobuses and a small crowd of bystanders, D.C. officials unveiled a new mural celebrating go-go on a corner in Shaw, where a battle once brewed over D.C.’s ...

You know how you might see one ant — a lone ant — crawling around on your cupboard shelf? And once you notice the lone ant, your eyes dial in, scanning the cupboard shelf until they land on a second ...

Gorgeous common hardwoods like American Beech and elm fill the canopy of Washington, D.C., but it has many surprising trees, too. Some tell stories from history. Others traveled from unexpected places ...

This story was completed with support from SpotlightDC and in partnership with the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University. For D.C. Metropolitan Police Department sergeant Tony Giles, ...

On a recent Friday evening outside of D.C., musicians, videographers, managers, and invited guests mill around a brick house on a wooded lane in an otherwise quiet residential neighborhood. Drinks are ...

Once the largest and only federally-run mental hospital in the United States, St. Elizabeths now sits largely abandoned on a sprawling corner of Southeast. For years, D.C. has been promising big ...

Guests can now book a room in the Waldorf Astoria Washington D.C., the new hotel brand that’s taken over the Old Post Office Building that once bore the name of former president Donald Trump. The ...

Late this year, Metro’s board will decide whether to embark on its biggest rail expansion since the Silver Line. Metro has long been studying solutions to capacity issues in the Rosslyn Tunnel under ...

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors approved proposals to build a massive and controversial new data center complex next to Manassas Battlefield National Park. The 4-3 vote was carried by ...