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Plans for the upcoming 11th Street Bridge Park are impressive, but people need to show up.

The District’s public school system is slated to become among the first in the nation to let families select “non-binary” — rather than male or female — when indicating the gender of their child on enrollment forms.

WASHINGTON — The District Department of Transportation’s new rules for dockless bikes and scooters starting in 2019 have ruffled Bird’s features.

Hundreds of graduate students at Georgetown University have spoken: they overwhelmingly want to unionize.

The graduation numbers for the last school year in D.C. are finally in, and they don’t look great — for black and Latino students in D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) in particular.

Every week, John Uselton leads tours of New Columbia Distillers in Ivy City, where he tells patrons all about the whiskey they’re making there. People tend to be confused—isn’t New Columbia all about gin, the Green Hat sold in those tall…

A hundred years after Armistice Day, there is still no national memorial to World War I in the U.S. capital.

The tiny downtown D.C. lunch counter C.F. Folks was proof that a decent lunch didn’t have to be an expense-account steak or a fast-casual, build-your-own-bowl endeavor. But the 37-year-old restaurant abruptly closed on Friday after a…

WASHINGTON — One day before the full D.C. Council considers lowering the city’s voting age from 18 to 16, the main lawmaker behind the effort is expressing strong optimism that his bill will soon be law.

The payments from Mayor Muriel Bowser's campaign to Kimberly Lockett started just before the primary election.

Shot dead at 14, Steve Slaughter fell victim to the scourge of everyday gun violence

As temperatures in D.C. drop to dangerously cold levels for the unhoused, the District plans to unveil another homeless shelter for families on Tuesday—one of several replacements for D.C. General, the decaying megashelter that Mayor Muriel…

The Post could once make a local candidate's day. Not so much this year.

Close to 100 people, including LGBT veterans and active duty LGBT service members, assembled at the gravesite of gay Air Force Sgt. Leonard Matlovich in D.C.’s Congressional Cemetery on Sunday to pay tribute to LGBT veterans.

The market accommodated their whims and needs for more than 40 years, so when neighbors heard rising rent was driving the shop to close, they did what they could to help: Letter-writing campaigns, petitions and a protest. More than 1,400…

t the site of the future World War I Memorial in the District, people gathered to remember the D.C. residents who gave their lives during the war.

WASHINGTON - An 89-year-old Korean War veteran – who was a victim of financial elder abuse - is coming home to some new surroundings on Monday. With some help from Purple Heart Homes, Thomas Pressley’s previously condemned home has been…

A D.C. firefighter broke his leg during a training exercise Thursday, when he was thrown 30 feet off a truck ladder that suddenly moved due to a broken securing mechanism.

One hundred years after the end of World War I, the Army Corps of Engineers is still cleaning up the relics of experiments that helped develop chemical weapons to counter the Germans’ gas attacks.

On Sunday morning, city and military officials gathered at the D.C. War Memorial on the Mall to mark an occasion no one present was old enough to remember.