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Officials have begun to dismantle the fortress of fences and barricades that took over downtown Washington for Inauguration Day, but remnants of a heightened security presence will remain in the nation’s capital far beyond the tense…

D.C. Fire and EMS responded early Thursday morning to a fire at a Petworth home that left two residents dead and one firefighter injured.

‘It’s one thing to observe these massive, earth-shattering events from a distance, and another thing to live in the middle of it.’

The DC Office of Planning (OP) is moving forward with another effort to expand the small-scale affordable housing production tool that is Inclusionary Zoning (IZ).

D.C.’s bridges and some roads are reopening Thursday after the historic inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Barriers began coming down in downtown D.C. and roads and bridges began reopening by Thursday morning as the city started to move toward normal after a tight lockdown for Inauguration Day.

The District plans to give priority for coronavirus vaccines to the broadest possible swath of people with preexisting health conditions — a decision that will make hundreds of thousands eligible for scarce doses of the vaccine and that…

Restaurants in D.C. can resume indoor dining at 25% capacity after 5 a.m. Friday, when the city ends its ban on indoor dining, according to John J. Falcicchio, who serves as both chief of staff to Mayor Muriel Bowser and deputy mayor for…

Happy Wednesday. DC's closures will begin to ease in the coming days as fences come down and roads reopen after the smooth inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

On Wednesday evening, crews will begin methodically removing the unprecedented security measures that have overtaken the District in the lead-up to President Joe Biden’t inauguration.

D.C.’s indoor dining ban will end on January 22. Restaurants will be able to return to serving 25% of their regular capacity inside, according to a tweet from John Falcicchio, the chief of staff to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.

The D.C. Department of Health announced that more than 2,000 additional appointments for COVID-19 vaccinations will be made available for residents who are at higher risk of coronavirus infection starting Thursday morning.

No one scene sums up this year’s Inauguration Day more than the image of nearly 200,000 flags that filled the green expanse of the National Mall on Wednesday. The orderly rows of flags served as stand-ins for the throngs of people who, in…

President Donald Trump was good for business — Mark Gothard had to admit that.

The most striking thing about the scenes of Washington, D.C., that filled TV screens as Americans watched the Jan. 20 inauguration of President Joe Biden: the near-total absence of Washingtonians.

Charlie Brotman, one of the most well-known voices in Washington, has been the announcer at every presidential inauguration parade since 1949 — with one exception: Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration.

Just before noon on Wednesday, as Joe Biden was sworn in as president at the U.S. Capitol, a man leaned out of an apartment window on U Street NW and clanged a cow bell. The sounds of joyous screams pierced the corridor.

The D.C. Department of Health said it will open about 3,000 more coronavirus vaccination appointments to eligible residents in two waves, beginning Thursday for those who live in areas most impacted by the virus, and continuing Friday for…

An armored black limousine idled on the street as it waited to take Joe Biden to church, where he would begin the first day of his presidency with a prayer for America. Across Pennsylvania Avenue, Biden’s twice-impeached predecessor strode…

Some hopeful Washingtonians are already talking about the statehood symbolism.