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As D.C. forges on through month nine of a global health crisis, new data shows the city’s infant health metrics have trended in the wrong direction, as racial disparities in healthy births widen.

WUSA9's Bruce Johnson is honored with a spot on the mural outside of Ben's Chili Bowl in D.C.

Though some students are at their desks in D.C. Public Schools, their teachers have been elsewhere as CARE classrooms got under way this week.

There are now seven names under consideration for the Northwest DC high school that is currently named for Woodrow Wilson, according to a new website created to solicit feedback.

And other notable happenings during this week's D.C. Council hearing.

Last year, the D.C.-based Go-Go Awards electrified a live audience at Ballou High School Theater as go-go bands like Sugar Bear, Junkyard Band, and Rare Essence played hits, singers belted a hymn, and marching bands and majorettes dressed…

The long-awaited redevelopment of Hill East’s Reservation 13 is taking a big step forward with D.C.'s call for developers interested in building on a huge section of the property.

They'll get some help, the Mayor's Office on Nightlife and Culture announced this morning.

A proposed sportsbook that a Virginia businessman wants to open on Pennsylvania Avenue in Southeast D.C. is getting pushback from people in the neighborhood who say it doesn’t belong there.

Growing up in D.C., Nayion Perkins says he used to pick up a copy of Express, the Washington Post’s free daily commuter paper, on his way to school. He got to know the folks handing them out, and turned to the publication “for information…

A year after plans were shared for the 3.5-acre “Northwest One” parcel in DC, the project is moving forward.

When Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Wayne Turnage saw an ad on television about participating in the drugmaker Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine trials at George Washington University, he immediately went online to sign up.

Commercial real estate owners are increasingly looking to harness touch-free technology for their office tenants to help slow the spread of Covid-19, and Marx Realty is no exception.

Scooter and e-bike riders in the District could soon have a greater chance of collecting damages when they are involved in collisions with vehicles.

Stanley Bell brightened his Southeast D.C. neighborhood with his infectious smile and colorful denim outfit, beaded from head to toe. Everyone knew him at Happy Stan. I spotted him in 2017 as I was driving on Pennsylvania Avenue in…

The Atlas of Brutalist Architecture features Washington buildings—and striking structures from around the globe.

In the United States today, where you live often determines how long you live. Our Zip codes are more reliable predictors of our health outcomes than our genetic codes.

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. resident Andrew Logan calls his neighborhood the city’s “helicopter highway.” Some evenings, whirlybirds of unknown origin seem to descend en masse.

The D.C. Public Library released a $175 million improvement plan Thursday designed to extend library access to more residents across the city by the end of the current decade.