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It’s a tradition that marks the annual arrival of spring in the D.C. area: the rosy flush of blossoms peeking out from the branches of the iconic cherry trees ringing the Tidal Basin.

In an affluent White neighborhood in Northwest Washington, a volunteer task force wants to atone for the racist policies that forced Black residents from their community a century ago.

The D.C. region has now recorded more than 1 million cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began, a grim milestone that comes about a year after the first local cases of the coronavirus were detected in early March 2020.

In D.C.’s version of Groundhog Day, the National Park Service released its much-anticipated peak bloom prediction Monday. The Park Service’s horticulturalists estimate 70% of the Tidal Basin’s Yoshino cherry trees will be in blossom…

A line of waiting cars snaked around the parking lot of a Sterling elementary school this past weekend, the queue of vehicles stretching for blocks.

Washington tourist attractions have engaged in a seesaw battle with the coronavirus over the past year. After closing en masse in the space of a few days in March 2020, they began to cautiously reopen over the summer — first the sculpture…

As Garfield Prep Academy in Washington, D.C., prepared to reopen in February, Principal Kennard Branch pulled out all the stops to make parents feel more confident about sending their children back to the building for in-person classes.

The grab-and-go store has food by Erik Bruner-Yang, and also delivers.

A new player has entered the race to become the squarest local resident to bring a regulated recreational marijuana market to the District. D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson introduced legislation today that would impose a 13 percent…

Metro is bringing back in-person pickup for missing items found in the D.C. transit system, although anyone looking for something other than a wallet or electronics might be out of luck.

Organic mattress maker Avocado Green Mattress has opened its first retail store in D.C. in Georgetown, which is only its fifth brick-and-mortar store in the U.S.

A Texas-scale power blackout or water crisis is unlikely in the Washington region, but neither is impossible given the increasing severity of storms, freezes and other weather events owing to climate change.

Children’s National Hospital has created a waitlist for D.C.-based teenagers to receive the Pfizer vaccine.

After tech issues have challenged D.C. residents attempting to make COVID-19 vaccine appointments, a council member is calling for a review of what happened as the city gears up for the next group of available appointments.

D.C. residents who are 16 or 17 years old and have a qualifying medical condition can preregister for a coronavirus vaccination with Children’s National Hospital, District officials said Sunday.

When Principal Victorie Thomas emailed a survey to families at W.B. Patterson Elementary School in the fall asking if they would want to return to the school building when it opened in February, just 2 percent responded. Most said no.

It was a modest plea from D.C. residents to the Capitol Police during a virtual town hall: If they couldn’t take down the seven-foot fence surrounding the Capitol, could they at least remove the razor wire?

American University is exploring the idea of building two underground parking garages that could add hundreds of new spaces — and, some neighbors fear, potentially more traffic — but said it's too early in the process to determine whether…

Coronavirus testing is down by at least a third from its peak during the winter holidays in the greater Washington region, sparking concern among public health experts who worry that lower testing numbers mean officials could be late to…

After a month of in-person learning for about 20 percent of D.C. public school students, demand is growing for expanded access to classroom instruction for the fourth term of the academic year, which begins in late April.