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One week following the departure after five years of the leader of D.C.’s 911 system, the agency has been notified that a thorough audit will begin Feb. 15.

For restaurants in the D.C. area, it has been 11 months of one step forward and one step — or two steps — back, with closures early in the pandemic, followed by the back-and-forth of restrictions and easing of restrictions.

Thousands of students are expected to return to D.C. Public Schools — but in predominantly Black wards disproportionately bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic, parents are keeping kids home.

The protests for racial justice that swept across D.C. last summer marked a new period of concentrated Black activism in the city. Watching the protests, historian George Derek Musgrove knew it was time to get to work.

A 24-year-old Annapolis, Maryland, native with a love for sampling beer and a race car background, is opening Tap99 at Navy Yard — a 100% self-pour taphouse.

Canceled appointments. Insufficient doses. Contradictory eligibility rules. Infuriating websites.

Before snowfall prompted D.C. schools to temporarily return to virtual learning Monday, an arbitrator ruled that most schools could resume in-person learning this week.

A last-minute effort to delay the reopening of D.C. public school buildings over safety concerns has failed, with an arbiter ruling Saturday night that the city’s breaches in an agreement with the Washington Teachers’ Union were narrow and…

D.C. Public Schools has met most safety criteria to reopen for in-person learning, an arbitrator ruled Saturday night, finding the Washington Teachers’ Union failed to prove many of the violations it alleged in a complaint about the school…

Despite D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s call to allow sledding on the U.S. Capitol grounds, the hills on the complex will remain closed.

D.C. schools are set to reopen this week for the first time in nearly a year, with schools in wealthier wards at maximum capacity while seats remain empty in the city’s poorest neighborhoods, because families there have opted in high…

When Answer Man was a wee Answer Boy, a favorite game was cops and robbers. The neighborhood urchins would ape what they’d heard on TV, which meant at some point someone on the law enforcement side would bark, “Calling all cars! Calling…

The self-appointed guardians of the fence that separates Black Lives Matter Plaza in the District from the federal parkland of Lafayette Square and the White House grounds gathered once again in the street Saturday as the sun rose.

Few American public high schools are anything like the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C. It has been educating future artists and entertainers for 47 years. It also ranks in the top 7 percent of U.S. schools in…

NOW THAT facts are back in fashion, it’s useful to recall the ones that argued in favor of relocating the FBI headquarters, an architectural eyesore in downtown D.C. notable for its crumbling facade, inadequate security, antiquated…

Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White is requesting that the District declare a state of emergency to combat gun violence.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The terrace on the west side of the Capitol used to be a popular place for tourists and Washingtonians alike to watch the sun dip behind the Lincoln Memorial at the far end of the National Mall.

There were nearly 200 homicides in D.C. last year, the most since 2004. And there has been more violence in the first month of 2021, according to police statistics.

Starting in February, staff of licensed child care providers and independent schools in D.C. will be eligible to make appointments for the coronavirus vaccine.

The coronavirus isn’t contained, and variant cases were reported in neighboring states. Time to double mask?