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The D.C. City Council on Tuesday gave final approval by unanimous voice vote to legislation that allows residents to choose a gender-neutral identifier on driver’s licenses and other city identification documents.

WASHINGTON — Investigators will examine why fire alarms did not sound as a huge fire broke out in a four-story apartment complex for senior citizens Wednesday afternoon near the Washington Navy Yard.  Although smoke detectors worked in…

HyeSook Chung, D.C.’s Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, suddenly left Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration on Wednesday, marking the second personnel change among the mayor’s top aides in the last week. Chung’s unexpected …

A major fire broke out at an apartment complex for seniors in Southeast Washington on Wednesday afternoon, forcing firefighters, bystanders and Marines to rescue residents, officials said. The fire sent flames and black smoke shooting from…

Providence Health System, which said it's transitioning away from acute care toward outpatient services, will close its Northeast D.C. hospital Dec. 14. After the closure, the system said only some primary care providers and the Carroll…

An insulator caught fire and filled the Benning Road Metro station with heavy, thick smoke in a previously-unreported incident from August 2015. This came nine months prior to the insulator explosion in the Federal Center Southwest station…

As a proud and happy resident of the Hillsdale community for the past 15+ years, I have dutifully crossed the Anacostia River every day to travel to work. Most of that time has been spent working in philanthropy. The landscape has changed…

In her tiny sliver of Edgewood, just south of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the periodic tolling of the shrine’s bell rings clear at every hour, on the hour—a reminder, for resident Heather Benno, of the…

Jamal Speaks put on his pads, grabbed his helmet and got dressed in his new gray Ballou High School jersey on Saturday, readying himself for his first game in nearly two years. But just as the 18-year old student, who says he is homeless,…

Dia King was number 171 in line and didn’t know if he would get a chance to speak in front of the D.C. Council. But if he did, he knew what he wanted its members to know.

In 2016, photographer Joy Sharon Yi began taking the Metro to Barry Farm, a large public housing complex in Southeast Washington, D.C., built in 1943 on the first city settlement where African-Americans could buy property and build homes…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) is backing Dionne Bussey-Reeder in her bid to unseat Council member Elissa Silverman (I-At Large), according to the mayor’s campaign chairman. It’s a major boost for Bussey-Reeder, a first-time candidate who …

Theaters in D.C. would be required to offer open captions for some of their film showings to improve the movie-going experience for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, under a new bill introduced by Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen on…

On Tuesday, a majority of the D.C. Council preliminarily endorsed new legislation that would make it easier for District renters to know if housing contains lead-based paint hazards, and to pursue legal action against neglectful landlords…

The D.C. Council is considering legislation that would wrest some control of city schools from Mayor Muriel Bowser by creating an independent research group to analyze education data and report directly to lawmakers. Council Chairman Phil…

The Martha's Table redevelopment may get started soon. Madison Investments applied for raze permits for several of the buildings in the 2100 block of 14th Street NW (map) this month, signifying a crucial first step toward redevelopment of…

Few police departments are better at finding illegal guns than D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department. But in the day-to-day battle to get guns off the street, residents in some majority-African American neighborhoods say they are being…

The nation’s capital could be the next home to legal sports betting under legislation introduced Tuesday. D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) proposed a bill that would let residents and visitors place wagers on sports matches,…

Lawmakers in the District of Columbia are preparing to overturn a ballot measure that voters passed in June to raise wages for restaurant workers.

Mount Vernon Triangle is poised to see another all-affordable housing development in the coming years, with a groundbreaking on the Capitol Vista project set for Sept. 25. Located at Second and H streets NW, the development will transform…