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The District Department of Transportation will hold two public meetings about the status of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge project.

Late last year, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced a new program to combat an epidemic of fatal opioid overdoses burning through the nation’s capital.

More Maryland residents favor than oppose statehood for the District, a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll finds, in contrast with national surveys showing that most Americans are against making the city the 51st state.

With the Washington Nationals knocking off the St. Louis Cardinals last week for the National League title, there was some free time for outfielder and pinch-hitter Gerardo Parra to visit baseball fans at Children’s National Hospital in…

Not all disabilities are alike. Some are more visible than others, but disabilities don’t necessarily require a wheelchair.

ANC 6B Chair Files Declaration of Candidacy on Mother's Birthday

D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee is vowing to rigorously examine the controversial teacher evaluation system he inherited — a move the teachers union hopes is the first step in redesigning a protocol that it argues unfairly…

What a game. No, not the baseball game on the field. Here on the eve of the Washington Nationals' first-ever World Series, exactly how the Nats got to town in the first place 15 years ago is a story fading into the background. But it’s as…

WASHINGTON — When Stephanie Gunter accepted a second-grade teaching position at Langley Elementary, she was no novice. By that point, Gunter had been teaching in D.C. Public Schools for six years, and she felt she’d hit her stride in the…

In the wake of last week’s shooting death of a 15-year-old Anacostia High School student near Nationals Park, some of his classmates have organized in an effort to stop gun violence and improve safety.

She was officially called a “data entry specialist,” but what Dilcia Rodriguez did at the 801 East Men’s Shelter in Southeast Washington could not be contained by a mere job title.

Three minutes. That’s how long Lekelefac Fonge was supposed to be gone.

A District-owned psychiatric hospital is entering its fourth week without potable water after a potentially harmful bacteria in its water system survived cleanup efforts.

A D.C. judge ruled on Friday that the D.C. Council likely did not violate the law when it granted a Greek gaming company a no-bid, $215 million contract earlier this year to run the city’s lottery and create a sports betting app.

A D.C. Superior Court judge on Friday denied a request for a preliminary injunction that would have blocked a no-bid contract with a Greek gaming company to manage the city’s planned foray into online sports betting.

“It’s become normalized … we need to change, we need to go to councilmembers.”

WHEN THE Washington Nationals succumbed, ingloriously, to the St. Louis Cardinals in the divisional round of Major League Baseball’s 2012 playoffs, Tom Toles, The Post’s editorial cartoonist, captured the city’s misery by drawing a…

Airbnb and the District’s hotel industry fought bitterly over a new law limiting short-term rentals, but now they and others have united to support legalization of thousands of such rentals in the city’s residential areas.

D.C.’s tense, first-ever council hearing about the decriminalization of sex work lasted more than 14 hours. While the more than 180 speakers represented views across the spectrum, most of them shared one thing in common: they believed…