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.

Federal judges in the D.C. district court have remained essentially silent while signing off on the hundreds of now-dismissed ...

Two individuals were arrested in SW Washington, DC for armed assault after offering trash removal and then attacking a ...

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

(The Center Square) – Forty-one Democratic senators have introduced legislation establishing statehood for the District of ...

Edgar Maddison Welch, 36, was shot just after 10 p.m. on Jan. 4, after pulling out a gun during a traffic stop, Kannapolis Fire and Police announced.

A contingent of 23 troopers helped officers with the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, staffing a detail that kept them on Pennsylvania Avenue for 15 hours on inauguration ...

Commuted Jan. 6 defendants could challenge a federal judge's order barring them from entering Washington, D.C., and the U.S.

The DC Education Fund held its 15th annual Standing Ovation for DC Public Schools Awards at the National Building Museum ...

The District of Columbia on Friday filed a lawsuit against ... The 9-mile (14-kilometer) river flows through Washington, D.C. and parts of Maryland. For decades, it was treated as a municipal dumping ...

Seniorly.com analyzed all 50 states based on financial and quality of life of factors to determine which are the best states ...

D.C. judges blasted Trump's Jan. 6 pardons, denouncing rioters as "poor losers" and warning against whitewashing the violence and chaos of that day.