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He was old enough to dance to a good beat but too young to know his favorite color.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser escalated efforts Thursday to obtain more coronavirus vaccines for city health-care workers, arguing the Trump administration’s planned rollout of doses for a first cohort of high-priority recipients is unfairly…

D.C.’s Historic Preservation Review Board denied a historic designation Thursday for a former slaughterhouse building where a federal contractor wants to build a halfway house for 300 men.

Metro is preparing to lay off between 1,100 and 1,200 employees in January, according to Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notifications filed in Maryland and Virginia in late November. The job cuts will hit Jan. 23, the first Saturday…

THE D.C. POLICE department that Peter Newsham is departing as chief is mercifully far different from the one he joined 31 years ago. Once notorious for leading the nation in the number of people shot and killed by police, the department…

When Mayor Muriel Bowser announced on November 23 that she would enact new restrictions that cancelled—among other things—indoor fitness classes, DC studio owners were taken aback and confused.

After learning the District would only get a tenth of the vaccine doses it needs to start, Health Director Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt said that pandemic policies and decisions are out of alignment with the vaccine quantity the city will…

D.C. Councilman David Grosso, I-At large, will take a job as a lobbyist with Arent Fox LLP when he leaves office in January, joining a firm representing a bevy of powerful clients with business before his former colleagues.

Ivanka Trump was questioned for more than five hours this week by investigators from the D.C. attorney general’s office, which has accused President Trump’s Inaugural Committee of wasting donated money on an overpriced ballroom at the…

A protracted struggle to build a new men’s halfway house in D.C. is one step closer to being over.

Metro has proposed the most severe service cuts in its history because of steep fare revenue losses due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Calling the shooting “unfathomable,” D.C. officials identified the 15-month-old boy who was killed in Southeast on Wednesday night and offered a $60,000 reward for information.

A 15-month-old boy was shot and killed in D.C. while riding in a vehicle Wednesday night, marking the third shooting of a juvenile in the city this week, and the youngest homicide victim in D.C. this year.

Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Washington Post readers have been asking our journalists questions about the virus and the local, state, federal and global responses to it. We’ve received well over 10,000 questions, and we’ve…

D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee said that parents should plan for an opening of school buildings with teachers in the third term of the academic year, which begins in early February.

A couple days before Thanksgiving, John Wall and his John Wall Family Foundation crew posted up outside Henry’s Soul Café on Alabama Ave. in Southeast, a main drag through our city’s neediest section. They handed out Thanksgiving meals. At…

Helbiz already operates e-bikes in D.C. and says the acquisition will elevate its presence and growth in the U.S.

Kingman and Heritage islands, which are part of a little-known conservation area in the heart of D.C., are drawing huge crowds as people look for ways to get outside to hike, bike and walk while taking a break from telework and virtual…

The District of Columbia is set to start an aggressive COVID-19 testing program of asymptomatic students and teachers, with the goal of getting them back together in classrooms, safely.