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The department is still finalizing plan to increase maintenance on playgrounds where lead was found, despite all playgrounds remaining open.

Like gay marriage and marijuana regulations before it, across the country, Americans are waking up to our harmful laws against sex work. As they are now, sex work criminalization laws create barriers to access to health services for sex…

Rates at parking meters along the Mall and a boating center in Washington may increase under a proposal by the National Park Service.

Patients with traditional Medicaid are the most vulnerable. That’s why some advocates are concerned about moving them into private health plans.

The Lane will have chaperoned play areas, an all-day cafe, and much more.

Limiting rent hikes keeps some apartments affordable, but does it make others more expensive?

Adams Morgan will host the seventh annual Adams Morgan Porchfest Oct. 5, and there will be more free music than ever this year.

On a balmy summer night about two months ago, Joe Cwiklinski climbed into his car, strapped on the seat belt, and began driving home from a friend’s house in Virginia.

Tougher penalties for gun violations and expanded intervention programs were among the wide ranging topics aired while city leaders considered legislative strategies to help D.C. respond to gun violence.

For four hours, nearly three miles of Georgia Avenue NW will be a car-free zone.

The Virginia Williams Family Resource Center, the District’s access point to family shelter, opens at 8:30 every morning. Adults with children in tow are assessed, categorized, and sent off. Some are referred to family shelter, which,…

The stately gray stone walls of the Folger Shakespeare Library on East Capitol Street have graced Capitol Hill since 1932, when Shakespeare collector Emily Folger saw her husband Henry’s vision of a “gift to America” to completion.

A couple dozen Georgetown University students broke into a chant Thursday outside a meeting of the school’s board of directors, seeking to put pressure on the university to do more to redress historical wrongs.

D.C.’s effort to fight gun violence now involves proposed legislation that would ban so-called “ghost guns” that don’t contain enough metal to set off most magnetometers and are untraceable.

Up and down the East Coast, SEIU’s janitorial contracts are expiring. D.C.’s janitors expect a better one—and if they don’t get it, they’ll strike.

Georgetown University students gathered Thursday to protest the university's lack of progress on implementing reparations for descendants of slaves once sold by the school. Students voted overwhelmingly in favor of the plan in a referendum…

The mother of a young man who was gunned down in Southeast in August pleaded Thursday at a D.C. Council hearing for something to be done about the disproportionate amount of violence her community faces and the lack of resources it has to…

It’s a wrap for the 16th annual DC Shorts International Short Film Festival and Screenplay Competition, where once again artists and audiences spent 10 days engaged with the craft of short filmmaking.

St. Elizabeths, D.C.’s public psychiatric hospital, hasn’t had running water for a week.

Centered on Alan Karchmer’s architectural photography, the exhibit debuts this fall