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A new program launched Tuesday by the District will help cover the costs of college tuition for residents seeking a degree in high-demand fields at three local universities.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday approved a $309 million contract to upgrade the city’s 75,000 streetlights with high-efficiency LEDs and Wi-Fi access points, signing off on what will be the first and so far the only public-private partnership…

The Amazon co-founder donated $2.7 million to the D.C. Public Library Foundation.

The District gives up roughly $86 million in potential real property tax revenue annually from just 10 properties owned by tax-exempt organizations.

D.C. residents pursuing a degree in certain “high-demand” career fields are now eligible for up to $8,000 in annual tuition assistance under a new city program D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Tuesday.

The Ward 3 councilmember drew online outrage following her dubious assertions about a shooting at the neighborhood’s Days Inn.

Authorities are investigating a string of bomb threats affecting four historically Black universities in the Washington region.

A quirky residential redevelopment is in the works for Cathedral Heights.

Officials are investigating bomb threats made against Howard University, the University of the District of Columbia and Morgan State University — less than a day after multiple, historically Black schools were targeted by similar threats. …

When D.C. teacher Kathy Thorne learned another educator at Marie Reed Elementary School had launched a fundraising campaign to provide higher quality masks to his students, she considered ways to copy the idea.

COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in D.C. have dipped further after running steady for a week.

D.C. officials have halted work on what its founder hopes will be the city’s only yeshiva, or stand-alone Jewish study center, after regulators found a two-story building under construction — not the “enlarged family room” for which the…

School officials will investigate whether Ilya Shapiro’s tweets breached policy; Shapiro says he expects to be vindicated

DC Health released updated coronavirus isolation and quarantine guidelines Monday night, calling for a negative test before ending isolation and detailing what it means to be up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccinations in a school setting.

D.C. Health issued new guidance Monday that recommends how schools considering “test-to-stay” programs should roll out the initiative as an alternative to quarantining and to keep more students in school.

Coronavirus hospitalizations are falling across the Washington region as the omicron wave begins to recede, but experts say hospitals are still coping with staff shortages that will outlast the pandemic.

D.C. officials again urged the community to remain vigilant after three people died Friday of suspected fentanyl overdoses and several others were hospitalized.

Days after posting a tweet questioning President Joe Biden’s plans to put a Black woman on the Supreme Court, Georgetown Law’s incoming administrator, Ilya Shapiro, has been placed on administrative leave.

D.C. and federal officials are investigating a batch of fentanyl that led to 10 overdoses last Friday, three of them resulting in deaths.

D.C. first responders and health officials are urging people to get educated about anti-overdose drugs after 10 people overdosed on fentanyl and three died in Southwest D.C. Friday.