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Igor Slabykh has begun each day since the Russian invasion on Feb. 24 messaging his close friends in Ukraine. He keeps the questions short and simple.

Renee Perrier and her spouse, Karen Combs, had their first child in 2009. Perrier had carried the baby through pregnancy, so the law automatically considers her a parent. But the monthslong “home…

Residents and elected officials fear the housing authority won’t stay committed to its promised “build-first” strategy.

Six months ago, Federal Realty presented preliminary plans to redevelop the firm's Friendship Center building in Friendship Heights. Now, the public is getting a more detailed look at what will be…

The mask mandate for D.C. public schools could end as early as next week, Mayor Muriel Bowser told Axios yesterday, a day after the city’s health department scrapped a masking requirement for all…

A federal planning commission recently unveiled three concepts up for public review beginning this month

District officials inked a new four-year collective bargaining agreement with workers’ unions representing D.C. government employees on Wednesday.

Chris Cole distinctly remembers the first time she had to ask for a tampon while experiencing homelessness. Cole, a Street Sense Media artist and vendor, said it brought her to tears.

Daniel Ball woke up cold and wet on the morning of Friday Feb. 25, following a rainy night with a low of 34 degrees. D.C.’s Hypothermia Alert was activated the night before, but was deactivated by…

Around 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 26, a group of 12 volunteers stood on a street corner just a block or two away from the Martin Luther King Jr. Library. They listened attentively to instructions from their…

A D.C. retirement board has granted a full pension to the widow of a District police officer who was injured confronting rioters at the Capitol insurrection and later took his own life.

There’s good news and bad news about the D.C. transit system, whose robust recovery from the pandemic is a prerequisite for the region’s own revival. Unfortunately, the bad news about Metro is far…

A 40-year-old bridge and tunnel will be rehabilitated while a connection between the District and National Airport will be disrupted

Helbert Morrison is one D.C. resident who wants to see more guaranteed-income programs.

A former employee says Rodriguez pushed for changes to performance evaluations to force older, Black employees out.

Another budget provision blocking abortion funding in the District also remains

Washington, D.C. would remain barred from legalizing the sale of marijuana under a congressional spending plan released Wednesday.

Even with a love of reading and writing, 19-year-old Joy Ugwu never imagined that she would co-author a children’s book over the span of a summer break. Ugwu was born in Jamaica to Nigerian parents,…

Reina Moreno and her 9-year-old son Luis had been homeless before. The memory of those days – when D.C.’s pavement acted as a mattress for her small family – still hurts for Moreno. The day she had a…

Learning of a possible link between an empty World War I shell, found in 2020 during construction of a trail through Fort Totten Park, and the decadeslong Spring Valley cleanup of chemical weapons…