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Martita Fleming keeps things running at Washington Latin Public Charter School. As director of operations, her job encompasses a lot — she makes sure classes have textbooks, that lights stay on, and the copier is running.

A D.C. church vandalized during a pro-Trump rally late last year is calling on police to amp up security as the city prepares for a weekend rally supporting those who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

The good times will be rolling in the District this weekend: More than 1,000 people have registered for DowntownDC On Wheels, a first-of-its-kind roller-skating jamboree.

Some of D.C.’s largest landlords say they’ve received less than half of the rent relief money they’ve requested for tenants, as challenges in distributing the federal aid continue ahead of the sunsetting of many of the city’s eviction…

The Washington Nationals are hosting a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at their stadium this Saturday ahead of their 4 p.m. game against the Colorado Rockies. Any unvaccinated people who attend can receive a vaccine, as well as two free…

Roxane Gay, George Saunders, and Nikki Giovanni are among the authors taking part.

PARK(ing) Day, an annual event that turns some curbside parking spaces across the city into temporary parks, is returning to D.C. on Friday. The event runs from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The Library of Congress hosts the National Book Festival this Friday through Sept. 26.

In his 10 years living in a tent along the L Street NE underpass in NoMa, Mike has been forced to move his stuff plenty of times, usually when D.C. crews would come through to clean up the sidewalks.

The Fairfax Embassy Row Hotel on Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, near Dupont Circle, has been acquired by Omega Healthcare Investors and Maplewood Senior Living, and will be converted into an ultra-high end senior living apartment…

Troy Donte Prestwood will seek reelection as the president of the Ward 8 Democrats but he faces a challenge from the club’s second vice president, Salim Adofo.

Lovell Walls is a third-generation Washingtonian.

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson recently voiced concern about STAY DC’s sluggish pace on distributing funds to needy tenants who face eviction but a key Bowser administration official says the program has worked well.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton served as the host for the “A New Majority for D.C. Statehood” virtual issue forum for the 50th Annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference that took place on Sept. 13.

Ahead of the “Justice for J6” rally in D.C., officials started planning safety measures to guard the U.S. Capitol, which was the scene of a deadly and violent breach only eight months ago.

The exhibition will run from Friday through October 3.

Crews have started to put up perimeter fencing around the U.S. Capitol area in preparation for a rally in support of those arrested in the Jan. 6 attack.

Metro riders in the D.C. region can save up to 50% off their purchase of unlimited day passes at discounted prices starting Thursday morning.

Months after the District’s troubled crime lab lost its accreditation, the city is moving to essentially disband a key unit of the troubled forensic agency, planning to lay off nearly a dozen staff members of the Firearms Examination Unit.…

D.C. fire crews were out canvassing the Petworth neighborhood in D.C. Wednesday morning after a fire killed a 7-year-old girl the day before.