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Wesley Thomas may possess a distinction no one would ever desire: homeless in Washington longer than anyone.

Anna Valero spent much of the pandemic trying to pull together D.C.’s restaurant industry and help workers survive. Now, as the industry slowly recovers, she’s hoping to use the connections she built…

An assistant principal at one of D.C.’s public middle schools is accused of taking a second job in person while working remotely for the District, according to an ethics board complaint.

Michael Redmond faces allegations that he violated the city’s code of ethics by holding both jobs last year.

It was almost 20 months ago that the COVID-19 pandemic forced the D.C. Council into a new world of virtual hearings and votes, but now lawmakers say it’s time to return to the Wilson Building in…

Aldo Richardson, 61, better known as “Al,” signed up to serve in the Army Reserves shortly after high school. Born in East St. Louis, Missouri, but raised in Chicago, he attended Carpenter Elementary…

The violence interruption program Cure the Streets will expand next year to four D.C. neighborhood areas to address gun violence.

As the District closes a deadly year, D.C.’s top prosecutor says he’s ready to expand a violence-prevention program into four new neighborhoods.

Over the past year, D.C. officials have embraced protest tourism as they try to bring back office workers and attract international visitors

The New York Times published a distressing dispatch from the Smithsonian on Thanksgiving last week, saying that due to climate change, the museums’ collections are “extremely vulnerable to flooding,…

Cure the Streets, a D.C. based violence interruption program run through the Office of the Attorney General, will expand to four additional neighborhoods next spring. The expansion, facilitated by a…

D.C. leaders are pleading with the public to turn in illegal guns after a toddler was shot and killed in Southeast last week.

D.C. police will increase traffic safety patrols around certain schools in the city, so that they can stop drivers who speed or run red lights or stop signs near school buildings, Mayor Muriel E.…

D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department will dispatch officers to school zones throughout the District in hope of improving drivers’ behavior when they are near kids.

For more than five years, I’ve advocated for improvements to DC’s plans for Dave Thomas Circle so that they would better serve the needs of local residents, pedestrians, and cyclists. On November 15,…

D.C.'s Ward 5, one of the fastest-growing areas of Washington, sometimes seems split between old and new.

As the entertainment and fashion worlds mourn the loss of fashion-designer and author Virgil Abloh, a D.C. bookstore is remembering his act of generosity earlier this year.

Several D.C. lawmakers want to press pause on the award of a nearly $70 million advertising contract from the D.C. Lottery that had previously attracted a protest by its losing bidder.

Ice, ice, baby: It’s skating season, and Washington’s rinks — many of which went dark last year — are open once again. Here’s a guide to where to get your glide on.

Last December, Congress authorized the creation of a women’s history museum and the National Museum of the American Latino as part of DC's Smithsonian Institution. Now, the Smithsonian is zeroing in…