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Days before the scheduled launch of a preregistration system for making COVID-19 vaccination appointments, D.C. has selected Microsoft as the vendor to host the system, the mayor’s office told WTOP. …

How the DC group Thrive East of the River is offering a different kind of help.

Dogs, kittens, guinea pigs—and a chicken—are all taking part.

Two firefighters loaned to Washington for the day were the only medics on the Capitol steps Jan. 6, trying to triage injured officers as they watched the angry mob swell and attack police working to…

Following concern from the D.C. Council over the pre-registration system DC Health said it would implement as early as next week, city officials confirmed on Friday that Microsoft is hosting the new…

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D.C.’s vaccine registration website once again sparked frustration for users on Friday, despite assurances from the city’s chief technology officer that issues related to heavy traffic to the portal…

I am an 83-year-old great-great-grandmother and president of the Brookland Manor/Brentwood Village Residents Association. As a civil rights activist, I marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.,…

D.C.’s public school system has welcomed back thousands of students to its classrooms in recent weeks, but that only accounts for about 20% of its overall student population.

At least four prominent D.C. LGBTQ organizations, including the D.C. Center for the LGBT Community, are working on plans to seek D.C. government support for the purchase of a building in which more…

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U.S. Capitol Police have requested a 60-day extension of some of the 5,200 National Guard members activated in the District in response to security threats and the Jan. 6 assault on Congress, opening…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Worried about continuing threats, the acting chief of the U.S. Capitol Police appealed to congressional leaders Thursday to use their influence to keep National Guard troops at the…

A member of the commission that advises House Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) on judicial nominations has resigned after making an antisemitic remark about a candidate for the federal bench.

The District’s top private schools are able to offer more classroom instruction in the upper grades than public schools because they are not bound by the same health guidelines, frustrating some…

While all 50 states have reinstated some high school sports, D.C. hasn’t. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday announced that will change in two weeks with a “tentative plan” to return teens to practice,…

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Johnnie Scott Rice later apologized in an email to the commission.

The last few weeks of technical difficulties with vaccinate.dc.gov eclipsed the good news.

WHERE IT concerns the safety of the Washington area’s Metrorail system, there have been so many red flashing lights in recent years — mishaps involving fatalities and injuries, as well as blistering…