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Acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman testified before Congress on Thursday, facing questions from lawmakers who argued the U.S. Capitol Police were unprepared and poorly organized for a deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection that…

The D.C.-based LGBTQ youth advocacy and services group SMYAL announced this week that it plans to open its third transitional housing facility for homeless LGBTQ youth this spring in the city’s Congress Heights neighborhood in Ward 8.

Most theater, dance and artistic organizations in the Washington region have spent the past eleven months weathering pandemic-induced financial challenges. Instead of staging performances, arts leaders apply for local and federal…

Even in the winter cold, Eliezer Albino was out working on 14th Street NW in Columbia Heights, cooking Puerto Rican dishes from a sidewalk kitchen.

The head of D.C.’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency said the Jan. 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill made something clear: “The District must reimagine safety and security, in the face of the evolving threat of domestic…

D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson reintroduced the Comprehensive Plan Amendment Act of 2020 on Jan. 4, making it the first bill of 2021 and Council Period 24.

Another person’s death was recorded in the city’s anonymized Human Services data on coronavirus.dc.gov/data today. They were the second this year, increasing the total number of people in the homeless services system who are known to have…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The acting chief of the U.S. Capitol Police is testifying before Congress on Thursday as lawmakers press for answers about intelligence and procedural failures that allowed thousands of supporters of then-President Donald…

Adrian Washington remembers riding his bike past the St. Elizabeths East campus as a kid. These days, he’s helping to build its future.

D.C. residents had serious trouble registering for coronavirus vaccination appointments online Thursday.

The District’s phone and online system crashed on Thursday morning just as thousands of residents became newly eligible to sign up for 4,350 appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine.

A city council member said most D.C. Public Schools students aren’t getting a good education, and he has a plan to come up with solutions.

The family behind Marriott hotels has gifted $20 million to Howard University to create a hospitality leadership center, officials said Wednesday.

Five days after it was announced that a “7-foot non-scalable fence” was going up around the U.S. Capitol, President Donald Trump traveled to Texas and stood by his border wall.

The nation’s capital on Wednesday surpassed 1,000 deaths tied to the coronavirus, a wrenching reminder of the pandemic’s blow to the Washington region. On the same day, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announced that her sister became one of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Capitol Police knew armed extremists were primed for violence at the iconic building on Jan. 6 and even provided officers with assault rifles to protect lawmakers, the acting chief acknowledged Wednesday. But the wild…

Just hours after D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser confirmed 1,000 covid-19 deaths in her city, she had to make another somber announcement, this one far more personal: Her sister had died of the virus.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that her older sister, Mercia Bowser, has died from complications linked to COVID-19 on Wednesday morning.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s sister, Mercia Bowser, died Wednesday morning due to COVID-19 complications, according to a statement shared by Bowser’s office.

EastBanc Inc. has kicked off a conversion of the former Brooks Brothers store in Georgetown into a retail lab concept to foster the growth of local businesses at a time when many shops are fighting to keep their doors open amid the…