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On a week when heavy smoke from Canadian wildfires forced many people to take precautions they’re not used to, an animal so associated with wildfire prevention they’re known as Smokey made a visit of its own — forcing people to take…

She had a favorite spot on U Street back in the ’50s when it was still called Black Broadway: Bohemian Caverns, the basement jazz club beneath a Black-owned pharmacy that had been decked out to feel like you were entering a cave. Virginia…

Maurice Edington, a chemist, comes to the D.C. institution from Florida A&M University

The transit agency is projected to be short more than $700 million next year because of fares lost to telework during the pandemic

In conjunction with its first Code Purple air quality alert in decades, D.C. is advising residents to shelter indoors– a refrain all too familiar after the COVID pandemic. But not everyone has the luxury of having a place to shelter, with…

It was just about seven years ago that D.C.’s first streetcar in decades started running again, shuttling passengers along a 2.4-mile stretch of H Street and Benning Road NE. But a long-promised 2.2-mile eastward extension to the Benning…

In D.C., the slam-dancing culture of punk is captured in archives and served up live

We’ve seen the photos from the West Coast for years — orange, smoky skies, everywhere from San Diego to Seattle. Now it’s happening here in the eastern U.S. as well, and scientists say this is probably not a one-off: bad air days are…

Dr. Ayanna Bennett has been tapped to lead DC Health, Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office announced Thursday. She will replace Dr. Sharon Lewis, a DC Health veteran who had been leading the agency in an interim capacity following the departure of…

Ayanna Bennett, a pediatrician and health equity officer in San Francisco, will succeed LaQuandra Nesbitt, who resigned last July.

The ACLU criticized the program, which would give cameras to delivery and ride-hailing service drivers, as a dangerous expansion of government surveillance

Three fatal shootings Tuesday night and early Wednesday in Southeast and Northeast Washington — including one of a 63-year-old woman — pushed D.C.’s homicide count to 102, the earliest point in the year the city has recorded 100 killings…

Delivery and rideshare drivers in D.C. will be eligible to get free dash cameras through a new government program, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Wednesday. The city will use a $500,000 donation from DoorDash to buy about 5,000 dash…

Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives vehemently disagreed on Wednesday over whether D.C.’s current elections are a model for the rest of the country — or if Congress should use the city as an example by imposing…

House Republicans examined D.C. election laws Wednesday in their latest hearing digging into the city’s affairs, an opportunity for them to advocate for stricter voting laws in the deep-blue city.

D.C.’s Wharf InterContinental Hotel has agreed to voluntarily recognize its employees’ union after cards are checked, which will include workers from the now-shuttered Moon Rabbit restaurant, according to their bargaining agent UNITE HERE…

The air quality in the D.C. region reached Code Red — or worse — on Wednesday morning, meaning it’s unhealthy for the general population to be outside, as smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to waft over the area.

The D.C. Council unanimously passed an emergency bill Tuesday capping many new rent increases at 6% starting July 1, bookmarking lawmakers’ frantic volley this spring to legislate around historic increases in rent prices.

The Bowser Administration commits to a transformative vision for redevelopment of 14th and U

Fifty-four-year-old Earnest Wilkerson didn’t foresee leading his neighbors through the sale of their apartment building when he moved into Minnesota Commons five years ago.