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Allison Hart, a D.C. kindergartner known as Allie to family and friends, was more than traffic victim No. 28.

A week before Christmas at a holiday market in downtown Washington, the air was thick with music, the smell of roasted candy-coated nuts and a growing dread over the latest surge in coronavirus cases.

The D.C. Attorney General will no longer represent the city’s Department of Corrections in “all matters arising out of or pertaining to” a federal inspection into allegations of poor living conditions and treatment at the jail, which has…

The two sex workers in Washington, D.C., suspected that the drunk, bearded man in the silver Nissan Maxima was a police officer. Standing outside the car on a December night in 2015, they could see his black boots and blue cargo pants.…

The bookstore would be among the first in the city to unionize, in an industry where unions historically have been rare.

The D.C. attorney general will no longer represent corrections officials in an ongoing battle over jail conditions, according to a letter from the attorney general.

Michael Iacovone, a teacher at McKinley Technology High School, in Northeast D.C., has started rethinking his holiday plans with family amid a surge of coronavirus cases across the region.

The D.C. attorney general’s office has stopped representing the city’s Department of Corrections in “all matters arising out of or related to” a surprise inspection conducted by the U.S. Marshals Service that prompted the removal of…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Friday said that reinstating the District’s indoor mask mandate is “on the table,” among other measures, as the city sees its highest-ever daily numbers of coronavirus cases since the pandemic began.

The holidays are here, which means an annual increase in food waste between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day as more people dine out at restaurants and gather for dinner parties.

D.C. tallied its highest daily case number since the pandemic started, at 844 confirmed cases, on Friday.

The D.C. Domestic Workers Alliance rallied for basic human rights and workplace protections.

Tuesday marked one year since the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine was administered in the D.C. region. Two days later, the District recorded the highest number of cases in a single day during the pandemic — and shattered that record again…

An anonymous donor has given a total of $2.3 million to the University of the District of Columbia for workforce development and scholarships, marking the largest private gift from a single donor in the school’s history, officials said…

A record-breaking surge in COVID-19 cases prompts questions about in-person schooling, sports, and other events.

About two months into the academic year, Sammy Magnuson’s fifth grade class at Eaton Elementary School sat in front of laptops to take a math test.

The trains are the first to return since the line was suspended on Oct. 17.

What have we come to in this city when a 23-month-old boy can be shot to death and three weeks later law enforcement cannot say whether the child shot himself, if someone else pulled the trigger or even where the gun that took his life is…

Newly-installed underwater trash bins are sucking debris out of the Anacostia River along the waterfront at the marina near Yards Park in D.C.

Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White has tested positive for COVID-19. The councilmember shared the news Friday on his Instagram and Facebook accounts.