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Chris Cole distinctly remembers the first time she had to ask for a tampon while experiencing homelessness. Cole, a Street Sense Media artist and vendor, said it brought her to tears.

Daniel Ball woke up cold and wet on the morning of Friday Feb. 25, following a rainy night with a low of 34 degrees. D.C.’s Hypothermia Alert was activated the night before, but was deactivated by Friday afternoon. His brown puffer coat…

Around 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 26, a group of 12 volunteers stood on a street corner just a block or two away from the Martin Luther King Jr. Library. They listened attentively to instructions from their team lead, Maria Le.

A D.C. retirement board has granted a full pension to the widow of a District police officer who was injured confronting rioters at the Capitol insurrection and later took his own life.

There’s good news and bad news about the D.C. transit system, whose robust recovery from the pandemic is a prerequisite for the region’s own revival. Unfortunately, the bad news about Metro is far more consequential — and regional leaders…

A 40-year-old bridge and tunnel will be rehabilitated while a connection between the District and National Airport will be disrupted

Helbert Morrison is one D.C. resident who wants to see more guaranteed-income programs.

A former employee says Rodriguez pushed for changes to performance evaluations to force older, Black employees out.

Another budget provision blocking abortion funding in the District also remains

Washington, D.C. would remain barred from legalizing the sale of marijuana under a congressional spending plan released Wednesday.

Even with a love of reading and writing, 19-year-old Joy Ugwu never imagined that she would co-author a children’s book over the span of a summer break. Ugwu was born in Jamaica to Nigerian parents, and it was hard for her to envision…

Reina Moreno and her 9-year-old son Luis had been homeless before. The memory of those days – when D.C.’s pavement acted as a mattress for her small family – still hurts for Moreno. The day she had a roof over her head again and was able…

Learning of a possible link between an empty World War I shell, found in 2020 during construction of a trail through Fort Totten Park, and the decadeslong Spring Valley cleanup of chemical weapons was concerning to D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes…

A draft federal spending bill unveiled by congressional leaders on Wednesday maintains a seven-year-old prohibition on D.C. legalizing recreational marijuana sales, again frustrating local efforts to tax and regulate sales that many states…

A wide-open race to succeed Ward 3 council member Mary Cheh has produced a political frenzy in this sleepy neighborhood, with four residents of Palisades, in addition to a few not far away, running for the seat.

A federal appeals court panel has revived class action lawsuits against two major D.C. universities that seek tuition and fee refunds over campus closures during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A federal appeals court has revived a pair of lawsuits against George Washington and American universities seeking refunds after the schools switched to online learning and halted on-campus activities during the early months of the…

Six of the candidates registered for the June 21 Democratic primary appeared before hundreds of residents and virtually at the Ward 7 Democrats mayoral forum on March 5, expressing their views on issues affecting the ward and the city.

In years past, DC Public Schools employees running for the State Board of Education had to officially leave the classroom by submitting a Declaration of Intent to Not Return .

DC Health released updated COVID-19 guidelines for schools Tuesday, recommending masks only when D.C. is experiencing high community transmission.