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A nonprofit serving LGBTQ youth is scrambling after the D.C. Department of Human Services informed it Friday that the city would not renew an $850,000 grant.

Before it was shuttered in 2011 and moved to a new location in Bethesda, Maryland, the Walter Reed Army Medical Center treated thousands of war-wounded veterans, including troops who served in World…

Group scrambles to raise private donations to prevent Oct. 1 shutdown

Members of a marching band launched the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Chase Innovative Branch in Skyland Town Center in Southeast D.C. Tuesday.

Bloomingdales’ Crispus Attucks Park hosts its annual film festival this month after being canceled last year due to COVID. The event has brought the community together for years.

After four neighborhood commissions in D.C. passed resolutions in April that favored ending reversible lane system and adding bike lanes, DDOT has not publicly finalized a decision.

California restaurant chain Pink Taco is opening a new location in D.C.'s Navy Yard neighborhood in 2022.

Their nonprofit, Black and Missing Foundation, submits missing persons reports to media outlets and shares them online.

A small white "ghost bike" with training wheels marks the place where Allie Heart was killed.

A 100-unit permanent supportive housing development atop the Stadium-Armory Metro station is moving ahead.

Brenda Donald is, by her own admission, still pretty new to the world of real estate. Yet she finds herself at the helm of D.C.’s largest landlord, becoming the latest executive charged with…

Booster shots of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are now available across the region for certain groups, and will likely be doled out in a process that’s free from the supply hiccups the region saw…

Denise Tyree, a single mother in Washington, D.C., looks for work online most evenings. Scrolling through listings on her laptop, she reads job descriptions, submits applications and sends off…

More than a dozen states across the U.S. have already legalized marijuana sales, and later this fall lawmakers in D.C. will start debating whether to join that group.

With the recent closure of the Wendy's at the center of DC's "Dave Thomas Circle" and plans for an upcoming park and accompanying street reconfiguration, the intersection of New York and Florida…

After bipartisan police reform talks collapsed in Congress last week, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., and Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., sent letters Monday to President Joe Biden, Capitol Police Board…

The founder of a 50-bed Northwest D.C. shelter helping young, homeless LGBTQ+ community members worries it may be forced to close after the abrupt loss of an $850,000 government grant.

Casa Ruby, a non-profit that provides housing, health care, and social services to LGBTQ+ people in D.C., launched a GoFundMe after the city declined to renew funding for one of its youth shelter…

Students, faculty and staff have reported nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and stomach cramps.

The zookeepers who usually feed bloodsicles and carcasses to the big cats at the National Zoo are now offering baby food and broth, keeping vigils over the sick animals and checking their coughs.