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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Director of the Office of Gun Violence Prevention Linda Harllee Harper announced $750,000 will be available for community grants to individuals and local organizations to address gun violence.

But racial disparities persist, meaning Black residents are getting sick and dying of COVID-19 at higher rates.

Todd Thrasher of Thrasher's Rum distillery and Tiki TNT talks staffing shortages, cocktail trends, and the fall of White Claw.

“We cannot conceive of any reason that it benefits survivors for half of them to be handed off to another organization.”

Citing a need to protect, preserve and restore native plants and landscapes, the National Park Service is proposing plans to curtail deer populations in several national parks in D.C. and Maryland.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Monday announced grants that will be available to individuals and organizations as part of a public safety initiative that treats gun violence as a health crisis.

Proponents for a proposed promenade that would deck over a stretch of North Capitol Street have won a small victory.

Software company Enovational has inked a 97,000-square-foot lease near Franklin Square in downtown D.C.

An 8,200-square-foot home off Foxhall Road in Northwest D.C. that is part of the former Brady estate and, subsequently, the District's last large subdivision, has been listed for sale for $4.49 million.

Many have tried, all have failed. But yet another group is trying to promote cross-border cooperation within greater Washington to overcome our region’s chronic east-west economic divide.

Howard Croft was part of a generation who challenged segregation, then died of covid-19 decades later.

In the classroom, D.C.-native Jalil “The Major” Hackett knocked out schoolwork with a 3.5 grade-point average at Cardozo High School. Now, he is on a quest to knock out opponents in the boxing ring.

The word jab — as in an injection and also a quick boxing punch — had a double meaning at an event near the White House on Saturday.

The District government has long had multiple events to address problem infrastructure, with cute names like Pothole Palooza and Alley Palooza.

Moisés Hernández Delgado loved to dance with his daughter.

The director of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute will retire in August.

The event allowed leaders of D.C. and Virginia to mark the occasion of something even more significant: the restart of travel.

Steven Monfort, director of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, is retiring in August, a zoo spokeswoman said Friday.

A nonprofit that has served the District’s homeless for half a century is at the center of multiple lawsuits over property taxes and the structural integrity of a facility it opened in 2018.

A group of Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners and community leaders (including myself) are hosting a series of pedestrian safety walks dubbed Sidewalk Palooza to draw attention to discrepancies in the District Department of…