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The National Museum of Natural History welcomes visitors again starting June 18, adding to the list of Smithsonian museums reopening this summer.

Mayor Muriel Bowser is adding a new perk for those D.C. residents who have not received a COVID-19 vaccine: a free gift card.

Mayor Muriel Bowser canceled Friday classes for D.C. Public Schools to commemorate Juneteenth, which marks the end of chattel slavery in the United States.

A federal judge ordered the District on Wednesday to provide special education services to students incarcerated at the D.C. Jail.

"I’m happy to be leaving nightlife in a place where things are back open and people can get back to work."

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) made a last-minute decision Thursday afternoon to cancel in-person and virtual school Friday in observance of Juneteenth National Independence Day — the newly created federal holiday marking the end of slavery in…

In her latest push to get D.C. residents vaccinated against the coronavirus, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has announced a new incentive: $51 Visa gift cards.

Some D.C. inmates are cooling off after the cell block they were housed in lost air conditioning a week ago.

There were 411 deaths from opioid overdoses in the District last year — that’s more than double the number of deaths from homicide, and nearly double the overdose deaths from 2018. So, the D.C. Department of Health is responding to the…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is going big in her next budget to fund infrastructure in the city, in an attempt to repave streets, smooth out new bike lanes and create some free transportation around town.

A closer look at the mayor’s budgets.

D.C. statehood activists are organizing their supporters for the June 22 hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs which will consider Sen. Thomas Carper’s legislation designating the District as…

Sometimes people come along with a heart so big that they transcend race, class and socioeconomic status during a life that impacts generations. In looking at the hundreds who packed into Southeast Tennis and Learning Center last Saturday,…

As the school year comes to a close, teachers and other staff members at John Hayden Johnson Middle School in Southeast remain resolute in securing the removal of the principal.

In late March, DaSean Jones was ready at his computer at 11:59 a.m. — paperwork in hand — to register two of his kids for the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation’s summer camps at noon.

The D.C. government buys and holds all kinds of property around the city — why shouldn’t affordable housing be part of the portfolio?

We spoke with four Washingtonians on what anti-violence work looks like for them — and what safety means.

D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced a bill Thursday that would establish a memorial on federal land in D.C. honoring the enslaved individuals who arrived at the Georgetown waterfront, a major slave trading port, in the 18th…

One would have to struggle this year not to find something to do locally for Juneteenth. Following last year’s renewed energy around the holiday — which celebrates the emancipation of the enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, on June 19,…

The District’s newest elected advisory neighborhood commissioner is believed to be the first incarcerated person to win office in the nation’s capital.