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Nikita Chinchwade moved from India to the U.S. last fall to get a master’s degree in business at the University of Maryland.

George Washington University’s plans to lay off staff, cut salaries and freeze retirement contributions are not unique, as schools throughout the country contend with massive budget shortfalls amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Her image is arresting. Hundreds of people walking through Washington’s Union Station this week paused to look at the huge photo mosaic of anti-lynching crusader and suffragist Ida B. Wells-Barnett on the marble floor.

Chancellor said DCPS has enough devices to meet the need and that the "vast majority" of students will have devices on day one.

All D.C.-licensed health insurers will have to cover COVID-19 testing for high-risk residents under a new mandate.

A demonstration that began Monday evening in the District to protest the shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin wound its way through two of the city’s entertainment districts, targeting diners in a tactic that has triggered backlash online.…

After months of tracking coronavirus metrics, many states have seen so-called spikes, which are often due to a slew of positive tests being reported on a single day. In Delaware’s case, that data fluctuation landed the coastal state on…

Children’s National Hospital is a now a D.C. landlord.

A civil rights march this week in D.C. will draw a smaller crowd than organizers initially expected, according to a permit issued Tuesday by the National Park Service.

A new audit found the D.C. government lacked continuity in providing substance use disorder care for people before, during, and after incarceration in the D.C. Jail over a January 2015 to September 2018 time frame.

A new order from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser now mandates licensed health insurance providers to cover the full cost of coronavirus testing for certain asymptomatic people who may be at a high risk of contracting the virus. The order is in…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Tuesday ordered health insurers licensed in the District to begin paying for coronavirus testing for people who face elevated risks from the illness.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced Tuesday that Honda will pay the District nearly $2 million as part of a multi-state settlement over allegations that the company concealed air bag safety problems.

Elvera Patrick, a competitor in senior pageants since 2013, walks through her Ward 8 home wearing a silver, studded cat-eye mask and a matching sequined dress that reflects off the chandeliers as she prepares for her next competition.

D.C. State Board of Education member Ashley MacLeay made an appearance in last night’s Republican National Convention, posing with some questionable decor.

Also, we need to talk about the flag.

D.C.’s top health official said Monday the city’s current phase 2 of its reopening plan is “a much longer haul” than the first phase of reopening during the Covid-19 pandemic — but she suggested some currently restricted activities could…

Hundreds of protestors took to the streets of D.C. Monday night, in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, Wis.

The D.C. government failed to provide consistent treatment and counseling for drug abuse to the vast majority of people who passed through its jail system over a nearly four-year period, according to a newly released audit.

Tawanda Johnson drives to her two oldest children’s charter school in Northeast Washington and picks up breakfast and lunches for them almost every day during the week. She also picks up meals at that same school for her younger daughter,…