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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and other community leaders gathered at the Edgewood Recreation Center on Monday to launch summer programs for kids, including one aimed at improving the reading skills in young children.

D.C. said Monday that people who help unvaccinated friends, family and neighbors make a plan to get vaccinated and accompany them to a vaccination site can receive a $51 VISA gift card.

The D.C. Housing Authority could earn funding to perform major rehab work at three of its properties in a major change from previous budget plans that would’ve directed cash toward a single project — but advocates still fear the agency…

A small homeless encampment in Dupont Circle was scheduled to be cleared earlier this month, the tents slated to make way for café tables and chairs. At the last minute, D.C. switched to a trash-only cleanup, meaning that the people living…

As part of a safety and mobility study, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) is putting up art installations at intersections in an area stretching north from Logan Circle through Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant.

"It was like we really took freedom and justice into our own hands."

French Brasserie Duck Duck Goose has set a late-summer opening for its Dupont Circle restaurant at 2100 P Street NW, a spot previously home to Vintage78, which closed earlier this year.

In another sign that D.C.’s restaurant industry is on the mend, Hook Hall has decided it is time to end its free meal distribution to struggling restaurant workers: Monday is the final day for it.

The longtime curator of the Barbie Pond on Avenue Q was on his way to dinner Saturday night when he first discovered the vandalism.

The new face of hunger in the Washington region is a Hispanic man or woman who struggles to feed their household despite working, according to a new report from the Capital Area Food Bank.

D.C. nonprofit “Gearin’ Up Bicycles” is getting a change of address.

D.C. has started the week under a heat emergency, with city officials opening a number of cooling centers for residents seeking relief from high temperatures expected in the region through Wednesday.

FINISHING TOUCHES are being put on plans to modernize Union Station and remake it into a world-class transit hub. The project has been more than a decade in the making and is seen as a singular economic and transportation opportunity for…

Looking out at the people across the National Mall, 54-year-old Dawn Craig, a third-generation Black Washingtonian from Brookland, was amazed. Thousands from across the country had come to her city Saturday to support not only voting…

Inspired by the Freedom Rides 60 years ago, civil rights advocates mobilized in Washington, DC, on Saturday against the backdrop of the US Capitol for the first ever national rally in support of DC statehood.

Some neighbors say they now have no easy way to access certain transportation, even get groceries.

Local leaders joined Black Voters Matter for a rally on the National Mall to push for D.C. statehood and voter rights.

A new community pantry is giving residents in Southeast D.C. access to free, healthy meals.

The first official weekend of summer looks to make its presence felt with intense heat, and the District is responding accordingly.

The D.C. Council has appealed to the National Park Service to keep cars off a scenic stretch of Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park