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Brittany Graham describes Lorraine Thomas, the 21-year-old Washington Highlands resident now memorialized on a mural outside Chesapeake Big Market, as her “guardian angel.”

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are on the rise, with half of all new cases reported being among 15-to-24-year-olds. Abstinence-only sex “education” exacerbates transmission rates by…

There was another traffic crash involving a child. This one was in the 3300 block of Wheeler Road SE. A 9-year-old child is paralyzed. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) made what WAMU reporter Martin…

On a narrow sidewalk in Northwest Washington, a small group of volunteers stacked cardboard and folded plastic sheets, loaded shopping carts and handed out hot coffee as they helped a chronically…

The latest surge in coronavirus cases throughout the Washington region has fire and emergency medical service departments wrestling with a tangle of challenges including delays in returning…

Hospitals in the greater Washington region are discouraging people who are asymptomatic or have mild covid-19 symptoms from seeking coronavirus tests in emergency rooms and urgent care offices, which…

New York City was America’s first coronavirus epicenter. Then rural communities became the hub, the virus jumping from one region to another as months passed.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said Thursday it has streamlined the approval process for urgent use of National Guard forces in the District of Columbia, after months of study following the Jan. 6…

Mosaic Theater Company is collecting stories from residents of the H Street neighborhood who experienced the 1968 riots in D.C. following Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, and who have…

As many people prepare to celebrate the New Year this weekend, D.C. is seeing a positive trend: fewer drunk driving crashes, injuries and arrests.

Three days into 2021, Kaailyah Rainey was with her mother on the way home from a family party when someone started shooting in the 3800 block of Wheeler Road in Southeast Washington. A stray bullet…

Captain Cookie and the Milkman may soon be coming to a Cleveland Park storefront as it seeks to expand its footprint in the D.C. region.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday that city health officials are “closely” reviewing revamped COVID-19 guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The median price of a house or condo that sold in the District in November was $725,000, a new all-time high.

Many of the D.C. region's colleges and universities are now planning to start the spring semester virtually in response to the huge surge of Covid-19 cases sweeping the region and the nation.

Some who have completed Aspire see their businesses thriving, while others are finding that being an entrepreneur has many challenges.

Two additional D.C. universities will delay in-person instruction with the start the spring semester virtually due to the growing number of COVID-19 cases in the D.C. region.

D.C. Public Schools will require a negative coronavirus test for every student and staffer returning after the holiday break.

Metro’s oversight agency has ordered the transit system to pull all its 7000 Series railcars, which it has been gradually rolling out after an investigation into a derailment on the Blue Line that…

They join other schools in the region in starting the new year online.