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The lions and tigers at the Smithsonian National Zoo that contracted COVID-19 last month are improving, but the great cats are now being treated for secondary bacterial pneumonia, the zoo said.

Another piece of the plan for a new community hospital in D.C.'s Ward 8 just snapped into place: the clinical team.

D.C. developers have been waiting for years for another chance to win a piece of the city’s main affordable housing loan fund — and now, the opportunity is larger than ever before.

This pandemic has been especially hard for Black folks in Washington. We have lost our jobs, gotten sicker and died at higher rates than other residents.

In her two years living on the sidewalk along the L Street underpass in NoMa, Gwen Morgan had one strict rule. “You had to take off your shoes in my tent,” she says. “That was my safe haven, so I honored it just like I honored my own…

While those receiving food stamp benefits nationwide will see a boost compared to pre-pandemic levels starting in October, recipients in the D.C. region will actually see their monthly payments drop.

American University will now lead the first national academic research network on wasted food.

Covenant House, a nonprofit group with locations across the country, will open a new, low-barrier shelter for LGBTQ young people Friday afternoon in the Deanwood neighborhood of Northeast Washington.

Coolidge football coach Kevin Nesbitt was raised to be hesitant about Western medicine. He received necessary shots and vaccines as a child, but when he has dealt with ailments over time, he has steered toward other remedies — green tea…

With the deadline looming for D.C. government workers to get at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot, around 75% of them are reporting that they are fully vaccinated.

Advocates are accusing D.C. education officials of discriminating against incarcerated students with disabilities by failing to provide adequate instruction during the pandemic, according to a complaint filed earlier this week.

A partnership has been finalized that will bring doctors and other health care workers from The George Washington University to the new hospital at St. Elizabeths East in Southeast D.C.

George Washington University medical staff will provide care for adults at the new $375 million hospital at St. Elizabeths and two new urgent-care facilities in Southeast, hospital and D.C. leaders announced Thursday.

The Securities and Exchange Commission will leave its longtime headquarters near Union Station for a new home in NoMa, the General Services Administration announced Thursday.

Gender and race intersect with mental health disparities in local youth. One organization is trying to help its clients cope.

The D.C. council will introduce emergency legislation Tuesday that, if approved, would expand virtual learning and the definition of excused absences.

D.C. Central Kitchen is cooking up something big.

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that D.C. police officers wrongfully arrested six people for carrying handguns in public between 2012 and 2014, potentially creating a legal pathway for as many as 4,500 people arrested under similar…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser was peppered with questions about affordable housing Thursday during an unveiling on Vine Street in Northwest meant to highlight her administration’s $400 million investment into shoring up affordable housing.

A total of 145 students, faculty and staff at Georgetown University have reported symptoms for norovirus over the last two weeks, the school said in a Thursday statement.