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Two months after the Biden administration’s deadline for federal workers to be vaccinated against the coronavirus so they could begin returning to the office, the government’s plan to resume normal operations remains muddled.

As the omicron variant surges, masking at school is a flash point in the D.C. region. It’s not just that the newly inaugurated governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin (R), has barred school systems from requiring face coverings. It’s also…

Other places across the country are coming up with creative solutions to school staffing shortages, and D.C. is offering substitutes $1.80 more an hour

Officials say federal workers are not returning in numbers needed to cover the agency’s annual operating costs

Several Anacostia High School teachers and staff held an impromptu work stoppage Friday in a push to get D.C. Public Schools officials to address safety concerns around the building that they felt had been neglected.

Several teachers at Anacostia High School in D.C. left their classrooms Friday to stage a workplace action as a result of frustration with their work environment.

D.C. police are on standby as the stated purpose of one group’s rally on the National Mall goes directly against a District mandate, and they’re preparing businesses for potential pushback.

The Big Board on H Street may find out soon.

D.C.’s deputy mayor for public safety told the council that the main source of an “influx” of guns coming into the District is changing, and that police are changing their tactics as well.

The piece will be included in a Kusama exhibit this spring, sure to break Instagram feeds all over Washington.

COVID-19 cases may have peaked in the D.C. region, but the death toll is rising in some parts. Local government officials are saying that many of the residents who are dying are unvaccinated. They are often older or have pre-existing…

With Paul Wiedefeld stepping down in six months, Metro’s board will be looking for a new leader to steer WMATA through some of its most trying times.

The lab lost its accreditation more than nine months ago and has no solid plan in place to restore regular operations.

On Wednesday, I will participate in D.C.'s “point in time” count — the annual census of people experiencing homelessness in our city. Mandated by the federal government, the count offers a snapshot of residents living on the streets and in…

D.C. police officer Jeffrey Smith died by suicide in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection, an act his family believes was the result of injuries he received when he took a blow to the head with a crowbar, or similar object, as he…

The pups are a part of a support team of the D.C. Fire and EMS Department and the local firefighters union.

More than nine months after the D.C. crime lab lost its accreditation to perform forensic casework, the amount of DNA evidence from D.C. crimes uploaded to a national database — which can be used to link crimes and identify unknown…

The nation’s capital will once again be awash in the aura of an electrifying Kennedy this weekend.

The Smithsonian Institution has tapped Cynthia Chavez Lamar to become the director of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., which has one of the largest collections of Native and Indigenous items in the world.

Harry Thomas Jr., who ended his comeback bid for the Ward 5 D.C. Council seat this week, said he is considering endorsing a former D.C. government staffer in the highly competitive contest.