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On a muggy June morning, Sadiya Abubakri pulled her Nissan into a quiet Southeast Washington street of squat rowhouses to pick up her student.

The District has agreed to pay $220,000 in legal fees to a Capitol Hill church that had sued over coronavirus meeting restrictions, one of a slew of successful legal challenges by religious groups during the pandemic.

The metal fence that has encircled the Capitol since a mob of Trump supporters stormed the complex on Jan. 6 began coming down early Friday evening, relieving residents who had been walled off in their own neighborhood and making way for…

The place joins izakaya Shibuya and cocktail bar Death Punch at his three-level destination.

The District is seeing some success with their vaccination incentive programs, but are still looking for ways to get people out to vaccine sites around the city to be vaccinated.

The collapse of the Surfside, Florida, condo tower and a much smaller condo building under construction in Northwest D.C. have prompted District leaders to make safety changes.

A Massachusetts Avenue Heights estate whose original owners founded one of the largest piano and keyboard retailers in the United States has sold for $10.9 million, according to public records.

When almost all of D.C.’s government employees return to their offices in person starting Monday — in some cases after as long as 16 months working from home — they’ll be greeted with balloons, free food, Pilates and other perks that city…

A new loan fund launched this week hopes to bridge the gap faced by Greater Washington developers of color as they seek financing for their projects.

The D.C. Zoning Commission unanimously approved American University’s campus plan Thursday, propelling forward the university’s goal to keep up with anticipated growth for the next 10 years.

Catholic University is hoping it has a piece of cinematic history on its hands.

The District Department of Transportation will rebuild the collapsed pedestrian bridge over DC-295, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Thursday night, just hours before a D.C. Council hearing on the matter.

The National Park Service is asking the public if parts of Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park should remain closed to traffic, as it has been during the pandemic, or revert back to being a commuter route connecting D.C. to Maryland.

With two-thirds of adult Americans having received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, the quest for herd immunity turns to vaccinating the harder-to-reach communities — including many communities of color, which remain…

Is Georgetown’s history stained as a port in the transatlantic slave trade? Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) introduced a bill for a memorial to Africans brought to the town’s waterfront in the 1700s. The theory lacks direct evidence to…

The District will be getting some new pedestrian bridges soon including a replacement for the one that collapsed over D.C. 295 last month.

The previous bridge, which was 65 years old, was deemed to be in poor condition in its most recent inspection

D.C. Superior Court is offering a chance for people with misdemeanor bench warrants to clear them up at home.

Before the coronavirus forced businesses to shut down, Raina Moreno, 31, was making $15 an hour as a domestic worker. But that money quickly stopped coming in once the coronavirus began to spread in the District.

Norman Bernstein, a Washington real estate developer and philanthropist who championed Jewish causes and housing desegregation, encouraging local property owners to open their apartment buildings to African Americans in the early 1960s,…