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Seattle city crews used heavy equipment to remove makeshift barriers around the city’s “occupied” protest zone following two fatal shootings in the area.

At least one person was wounded, police said, in what was the second shooting in Seattle’s protest zone in less than 48 hours.

A shooting in Seattle’s protest zone has left one person dead and another critically injured

A lost sea lion took over a road in Washington state, and it took multiple agencies an hour to get it off land and back into the water.

NBC LX Storyteller Chase Cain was there when Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Browser had “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street that leads to the White House and later announced the area had been renamed “Black Lives Matter Plaza.”

A Fox News reporter was attacked and chased away by protesters outside of the White House early Saturday

The Washington State Potato Commission looked to give away 200,000 pounds of potatoes to those in need in Tacoma, Washington.

Take a little break from coronavirus coverage to look at the beauty of cherry blossom trees which line the National Mall in Washington, D.C., but were brought to the United States from Japan.

D.C. is closing off a large part of the National Mall and the Tidal Basin to pedestrians, cyclists and drivers in an effort to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Dorothy Campbell, 88, looked through a window on Thursday at her husband of more than 60 years, Gene Campbell.

The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed to 11 on Wednesday with a patient succumbing in California — the first reported fatality outside Washington state — as federal authorities announced an investigation of the Seattle-area nursing home where most of the victims were stricken. Officials in California’s Placer County, near Sacramento, said an elderly person who tested positive after returning...

There were 88 reported cases of coronavirus in the United States as of Monday and more than 80,000 worldwide. This scare has led to a spike in sales of products Americans think will help them avoid the virus.

What visions of the cherry blossoms swirl in your head? Romantic picnics? Snapping your next Instagram photo? These are the dreams of the estimated 1.5 million people who visit D.C. every year for the Cherry Blossom Festival. It’s time to wake up.

Her 14th birthday arrived Tuesday, but Relisha Rudd remains missing.

The governor of Washington state declared a state of emergency Saturday after a man died there of COVID-19, the first such reported death in the United States

Health officials in California, Oregon and Washington state worried about the novel coronavirus spreading through West Coast communities after confirming three patients were infected by unknown means.

Traci Strahan sits down with NPR’s Jami Floyd to discuss an Apollo Theater panel examining Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and work, and how to adapt his 1967 manuscript in the current political climate on its 50th anniversary.

We’re taking a trip down memory lane and checking in on some of the pets adopted during the 2016 Clear the Shelters event.

To get a peek into what D.C. residents are reading, NBC Washington checked out the DC Public Library’s data on the most popular books and authors of the past year.