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Thirty-four families are still living at D.C. General, the large, dilapidated former hospital-turned-homeless shelter that Mayor Muriel Bowser is working to close by the end of the year. The city announced to residents this summer that it…

The costs to oversee, operate and maintain Metrorail, Metrobus and paratransit services are ticking upward. Earlier this week, officials gave a wink and a nod to a quasi-independent safety panel — partly because of federal oversight, partly…

The ashes of Matthew Shepard, a gay man who was murdered because of his sexual orientation, will be interred at the Washington National Cathedral later this month. Shepard’s remains have been in storage in Wyoming, where he lived, since his…

Emergency anti-K2 legislation recently passed by the D.C. Council and signed by Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) expands the definition of synthetic cannabinoids and reinstates expired enforcement policy, part of an effort to curb an ongoing…

In 1986, Juanda Smith was saving money toward her dream of becoming a homeowner. It wasn’t enough. “I saw a condo I liked, and I was so fortunate that the sales person there encouraged me to contact the Manna/FLOC nonprofit,” says Smith,…

In the battle over clean energy and global warming, the District of Columbia rates barely a speck on the nation’s landscape, a tiny 68 square miles out of the nation’s nearly 3.8 million square miles.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s recent embrace of Dionne Reeder, who is trying to unseat D.C. Council Member Elissa Silverman next month, has filled Reeder’s campaign coffers - with much of the cash coming from Bowser’s donor network.

Residents of Northeast D.C. are trying to secure housing from the National Shrine.

The Democratic Socialists of America are on the rise nationwide, and the D.C. chapter is currently focusing their efforts on the ANC races.

The hornets almost made me turn back. I was standing beneath the Oxon Cove Bridge, an unremarkable stretch of the Anacostia Freeway that crosses over Oxon Creek just before it empties into the Potomac, on the border of Maryland and…

A D.C. business group that has previously criticized the District’s unemployment and estate taxes as well as its progressive paid leave law for being too costly has a different message in its latest report: Many people are falling behind or…

When we discuss the District’s rental housing supply, those discussions usually center on units in apartment buildings, as opposed to units that are rented out by their owners. However, in the District of Columbia, units rented out by their…

This week D.C. will hold its third and final round of public meetings for a little-known planning process that could reshape the city’s balance between neighborhood schools and charters. For the past 16 months, Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office…

Patients, nurses and community leaders testified during a standing room-only D.C. Council committee hearing on Wednesday about the planned closure of acute-care services at Providence Hospital in northeast Washington.

WASHINGTON — Scammers are working the phones again, D.C. police warn. This time, the crooks’ angle involves the use of “spoofing” technology, which makes the call appear like it’s coming from a Police Department number. The aggressive…

D.C. Council leaders say Wednesday they will work to keep Providence Health System open for at least the next three years, despite the Northeast D.C. hospital's announcement that it would shut down and transition to outpatient care by year…

Drag queens in pumps, platforms and stilettos will race down a Dupont Circle street later this month as they have for the past 32 years with one marked change — the District’s annual High Heel Race has been taken over by the mayor’s office.

According to a U.N. report released Monday, the future of the planet looks dire. Tens of millions of people flooded by sea level rise, hundreds of millions suffering through severe droughts. Mass die-offs of 70 to 90 percent of coral reefs.…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday opened the second homeless shelter to replace the dilapidated facility at the former D.C. General Hospital campus — part of her campaign promise to close D.C. General by the end of the year and to make…

The D.C. block where NASA’s headquarters is located is poised to be symbolically named “Hidden Figures Way” in the coming months thanks to a unanimously supported effort by District elected officials “to honor the historic women scientists…