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In 2021, D.C. implemented the Sexual Assault Victims’ Rights Amendment Act of 2019 (SAVRAA), which gives 13- to 17-year-old victims of sexual assault in D.C. the right to an advocate — a trained professional from a community-based…

Washingtonians might leave museums to tourists, but D.C. resident Noelle Harada set out to visit every museum in town in just one year. So far, she's crossed 73 off her list and has about ten left to go.

Less than a month away from the start of school, a quarter of D.C. students are behind on routine childhood vaccinations, and city officials are in the final push of a summer-long campaign to get shots in arms.

The transit agency’s regulator said it found one control room in a condition of disrepair and neglect

With Hurricane Isabel still churning off the coast of North Carolina, on Sept. 18, 2003, D.C. and federal officials decided to shut down the nation’s capital. Metro trains and buses stopped running mid-morning, the day before the storm hit…

Monkeypox has spread to the homeless population in D.C., with two confirmed cases, as the District launches weekly walk-up vaccination clinics in an attempt to slow the spread of the virus.

Arlene Tutt never really got her brother’s job until she tried to do it, days after he died.

Metro needs to inspect, clean, and protect Metrorail station rooms that house equipment that detects when trains are on tracks and helps the system avoid crashes, the agency’s safety oversight body said in a report released Thursday. The…

Starting tomorrow, limited walk-up monkeypox vaccinations will be available for eligible D.C. residents on Fridays, city officials announced on Wednesday.

For the first time ever, Children’s National Hospital has a violence intervention program aimed at youth victims.

Georgetown University is looking to redevelop its law school campus between Judiciary Square and Union Station as the institution continues to grow its academic, administrative and residential spaces outside of the neighborhood that shares…

A $90 million project would add educational and recreational space atop piers and pilings from the old 11th Street Bridge

Standing in front of a crowd last month along the District’s 14th Street corridor, outgoing D.C. Health director LaQuandra Nesbitt warned of an emerging viral outbreak facing the city and detailed her department’s strategy to get residents…

To help combat the spread of monkeypox, D.C. city health officials will hold three monkeypox vaccination clinics on Friday, the agency said Wednesday.

Metro officials unknowingly sent a Red Line train with riders on board towards a track fire, according to agency statements and information provided to Greater Greater Washington. At the time a Red Line train was traveling from the Woodley…

D.C. is seeing an increase in homicides, even as it continues to fund programs that they hope will deter crime.

D.C. runs a program asking those behind bars to propose ways to stem crime in the city

The Humane Rescue Alliance has an urgent plea: please adopt (or foster) an animal.

If you’ve been thinking about adding a four-legged roommate to your household, listen up.

Unusually high intake and low adoption rates have created the perfect storm.