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D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) pointed to data Thursday showing a sharp drop in the number of the youngest students who are meeting literacy benchmarks to reinforce her point that there is an urgent need to reopen schools, even as the…

It’s October, but D.C.’s season of protest is far from over, according to the activists who have been at the center of the city’s racial justice protests, which sprang up after the police killing of George Floyd in May. As the local…

Metro officials on Thursday pledged to improve communication with passengers during emergencies and come up with better evidence control standards in response to missteps made after a Red Line train separated earlier this month.

LL has whiplash from watching Marcus Goodwin‘s swift and sudden changes in opinion. The 31-year-old candidate for an at-large seat on the D.C. Council has changed, contradicted, or clarified his answers on several issues during his…

The annual tradition dates back more than 30 years.

As you approach, it looks like a blanket of fresh snow — a startling expanse of white.

D.C. Public Schools announced more safety measures at schools for the expected resumption of in-person learning on November 9, including a $24 million update to filtration systems and on-site rapid testing for symptomatic individuals.

Pinto, the council’s newest and youngest member, introduced legislation this week that would allow D.C. Health to issue an identification card to pregnant individuals and those with irritable bowel syndrome, allowing them to gain access to…

The District released more information Thursday on plans to return to in-person learning for select students for the second term at D.C. Public Schools.

For the first time in D.C., cannabis dispensary workers ratified a union contract with their employer—a landmark not just for the dispensary’s employees, but also for the city’s nascent marijuana industry.

Planet Word, which claims to be the first museum in the world dedicated to language arts, opened its doors Thursday in D.C.'s historic Franklin School after a months-long pandemic-related delay.

A new museum dedicated to language, Planet Word, opened this week in the historic former Franklin School building at 13th and K streets in Northwest D.C.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is requesting permission from the D.C. Council to transfer $43 million from elsewhere in the District budget to cover the costs of police overtime expenses during racial justice protests since the spring.

The region’s newest hotel option, the first local outpost of the citizenM brand out of Europe, has opened in Southwest D.C.

Demonstrators took to the D.C. streets in late May, protesting police brutality and the systemic racism Black people face. It was part of a larger movement inspired by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, but Floyd wasn’t the…

The Franklin School in downtown Washington has been empty for more than a decade, except for a brief period in 2011 when the Occupy Movement used it as a homeless shelter. One of the most significant historic structures in the city, and…

Tell a joke. Give a speech. Sing a classic rock anthem. You can do all of these things — and more — at Planet Word, a museum of words and language opening Oct. 22 in downtown Washington.

The coronavirus has disrupted the Marine Corps Marathon this year, forcing the annual race to go virtual. But that’s not the only adjustment some of this year’s runners have had to make.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has reimbursed the District about $90 million — or about $130 for each resident — for fighting the novel coronavirus. Neighboring Montgomery County has gotten $20,000, or about 2 cents per resident. …

The Boeing Co. has donated $5 million to Children’s National Hospital for its new Children’s National Research and Innovation Campus, currently under construction in D.C.