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Dec. 26 marks the first day of Kwanzaa. For the next seven days, the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum will celebrate the holiday at its center in Southeast D.C. Mama Ayo is in her element. “I’ve been telling stories about Kwanzaa since 1970,” Kwanza storyteller Ayo Handy Kendi, who goes by Mama Ayo, said. “Yes, a long, long time.” For the&#82...

News4’s Tommy McFly, Tracee Wilkins, Erika Gonzalez and Joseph Olmo play Pictionary with Digital Producer Maggie More as she sketches out some of the year’s biggest stories.

There are a million ways to go out on New Year’s Eve, and one of our favorites is to dance the night away. Of course, the D.C. area has plenty of swanky hotel parties, all-inclusive bashes at bars and even some family-friendly, daytime celebrations. But nothing says celebration like live music or a fun DJ. From ’80s and ’90s......

Giving what you can, when you can: Chef Bren and friends and family passed out hot meals to families in need on Christmas Day. Photojournalist Jerry Lawlor took a look.

A woman is seriously hurt and a burning building partially collapsed in Northeast D.C. early Thursday after a car crashed into the building, authorities say.

Jonathan Arrington graduated from Friendly High School and went on to become a screenwriter. His debut novel, “My Brother’s Keeper,” has a message about the power of building relationships on a foundation of love, honesty and vulnerability. He spoke with News4’s Jummy Olabanji as part of her 4 Your Reading series.

The post-Christmas rush to return home is underway at airports in the D.C. area. News4’s Derrick Ward reports live from Reagan National Airport.

As people celebrate the holidays with time off work, News4’s Jackie Bensen spoke with members of D.C. Fire and EMS, who remain ready to respond to holiday emergencies.

News4’s Erika Gonzalez celebrates the holidays at the embassies and takes viewers to some of the District’s most exclusive homes

It’s the time of year when bringing the family together is important. For the past three years for Debbie Zane, that’s meant a visit that’s included a visit to a cemetery — a bittersweet tradition. “It’s a way of connecting with him,” she said. “It’s a way that I spend all holidays and special times.” The cemetery is adorned...

The smallest patients at D.C.’s Children’s National Hospital got some special Christmas outfits for their first holiday, and the resulting photoshoot would make anyone’s heart grow three sizes.

A child is dead and three other people are hurt after a shooting in Baltimore County on Tuesday, according to police. Police responded to the unit block of Breslin Court at 6:35 a.m. in Rosedale, Maryland to the report of a shooting at an apartment complex. At the scene, officers found a woman and two children suffering from gunshot wounds,…...

This cold Christmas Eve was even more uncomfortable for hundreds of residents of a condominium complex in Maryland. They say they have been without heat since mid-December. Residents of Chelsea Wood Condominiums in Greenbelt told News4 they’ve been informed it could be another couple of weeks, at minimum, until their homes are warm again. Coats and...

Another development has arrived in the deal to give the District long-term control of the RFK stadium site. The Air Force has agreed to transfer D.C.’s Air National Guard fighter squadron to Maryland’s National Guard. Maryland leaders had sought the transfer as part of the deal to give D.C. control of RFK. The Washington Post was first to rep...