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On Sunday evening, Phil Portlock sat across from his computer in his Northeast Washington home, fired up Zoom and once again tried to save democracy from those who would destroy it.

The Washington National Cathedral knows that many locals are going to be praying on Election Day. So, for the first time since the pandemic began, the Cathedral is re-opening the nave for an all-day…

D.C. Public Schools on Monday announced it was cancelling plans to return to in-person learning next week, amid mounting pushback from the teachers and principals unions and advocates.

With so much uncertainty about election results, local news organizations emphasize patience.

More than two years since DC designated 25 Opportunity Zones (OZs), the city is implementing its own layer of tax incentive regulations.

In a reversal, D.C. Public Schools will not reopen elementary school classrooms for most students next week as planned, citing the need to readjust staffing plans after strong pushback from teachers.…

D.C. Public Schools will not reopen elementary school buildings next week, delaying plans to bring some students back to physical classrooms after fierce pushback from teachers, parents and school…

The District school system announced Monday that it was canceling plans to bring some elementary students back to classrooms on Nov. 9. The announcement came after negotiations with the teachers…

D.C.’s executive order calling for anyone traveling to the District for nonessential activities from places deemed Covid-19 hot spots to self-quarantine has been updated with a new list of 42 states…

Forty-two states are now on D.C.’s updated list of high-risk states where anyone from them who is coming to D.C. for non-essential activities will be required to self-quarantine for 14 days.

Chelita, specializing in cebiche and smoky grilled skewers, will open in early 2021. Amazonia and Causa will follow.

Lidel Smith is 82, and he’s never missed an election since he was eligible to vote. He says his grandfather, who couldn’t vote, drilled the importance of casting a ballot into him.

Black voters are being flooded with targeted disinformation and racialized messages attempting to suppress the vote in the final days of the election, researchers from D.C.’s Howard University said. …

Federal prosecutors in D.C. have opened a sweeping audit into the handling of ballistics evidence by the District’s forensic lab after the discovery of a botched analysis that falsely linked two…

For years, a debate over the name of Woodrow Wilson High School has gripped the surrounding community in northwest Washington. This year, things changed.

The father of Karon Hylton, whose death while being followed by District police while riding a moped touched off angry protests in the city, was one of nine people arrested outside a D.C. police…

Several friends and family members of Karon Hylton-Brown, including his father, were arrested during protests outside the 4th District police station Saturday night.

Saying goodbye to Johnny's Half-Shell—and many other places.

The father of Karon Hylton-Brown was one of 9 people arrested during Saturday night protests over what they believe was the police’s involvement in his deadly moped crash on Oct. 23.

For Andrew Hammond, a Scotsman and the historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in D.C., the loss of iconic actor Sean Connery this week at the age of 90 hits particularly hard.