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You won’t need to feed the meter but you will need to watch where you park in D.C. starting Monday.

As the House prepares to take up the issue this week of statehood for the District of Columbia, a new national poll finds that 54% of likely voters think D.C. should be a state, a record high level of support.

Our region’s state and local governments are getting a windfall totaling more than $15 billion in direct aid from the newly passed federal coronavirus relief plan, which will go a long way to help them repair damage from the…

The nation’s capital will shrink dramatically if H.R. 51 — otherwise known as the Washington D.C. Admission Act, and the subject of a congressional hearing Monday — is enacted and fully implemented. The nation’s capital will be reduced to…

The Washington, D.C., Admissions Act, HR-51 (SB-51 in the Senate), comes up for a hearing on March 22 in the House Oversight Committee. Introduced by nonvoting D.C. delegate-at-large, Eleanor Holmes Norton, HR-51 has 227 co-sponsors in the…

Make my generation the last to be denied equal representation in Congress. Make sure my future children won’t grow up in the shadows of democracy.

A commission created to help the District reinvent policing is preparing a final report that could propose sweeping changes, including taking officers out of schools, curtailing traffic enforcement and shrinking the department’s size and…

Iran has made threats against Fort McNair, an Army post in the U.S. capital, and against the Army’s vice chief of staff, two senior U.S. intelligence officials said.

Pearl Street Warehouse reopened dining on the first day of spring, but they're still anxiously awaiting rules for live music.

On Saturday, workers were scaling back the fencing that surrounds the U.S. Capitol.

Artist Katherine Ludwig stands on Washington Ave. SW watching and painted the scene with lines of blue ink as a group of five contractors remove razor wire from the 8-ft. black fencing that’s been erected around the Capitol since the…

A new organization in the District is working to educate policymakers and the business community on what it would mean to be the 51st state.

Since 1960, the Monocle has been one of the best-located restaurants in Washington.

Joe Biden visited Southeast Washington in January 2015 to undertake a quintessential vice-presidential duty — inspecting a massive public works project on the banks of the Anacostia River to tout the White House infrastructure agenda.

D.C. restaurants can start serving alcohol until midnight again for both indoor and outdoor dining starting on Monday.

In mid-March in a normal year (remember those?) college seniors would be counting down the days to graduation, administrators would be finalizing commencement ceremony plans and family members would be locking down travel, hotel and…

The Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown is losing its second general manager in six years to the same Texas resort.

Burtell M. Jefferson, who joined the District’s largely segregated police department in 1948 and launched a behind-the-scenes campaign to help Black officers advance through the ranks as he rose to become the city’s first African American…

(CNN) — The outer fencing erected around the Capitol shortly after rioters stormed the building on January 6 will be removed this weekend, earlier than expected, according to the acting House sergeant-at-arms.

Classroom-based learning in schools across the Washington region could expand for spring and look more normal by fall, following changes in safety guidance announced Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.