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In Ward 8, a new mural installation celebrates the 100th anniversary of some women gaining the right to vote after women suffragists organized for decades.

Health and safety has taken on greater importance in the age of Covid-19, and the team repositioning a downtown D.C. office building hopes the steps it took to earn a novel certification will help it…

Benefits for some Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claimants are scheduled to expire the week of Oct. 25.

Contactless catering is all the rage at the D.C. dining institution Ben’s Chili Bowl. This weekend, the restaurant will serve folks at Wolf Trap’s Fall Fest Chili Supper.

A transgender man is suing the National United Methodist Church and Friendship Place, a homeless services provider, claiming he was discriminated against when he was denied housing in a men’s…

Restaurateurs are scrambling to create pandemic-friendly communal spaces.

This past spring, restaurateur Aaron Gordon had an idea for a lifeboat. A handful of well-known D.C. chefs would converge under one roof, devote a 6,000-square-foot former restaurant solely to…

Six years ago, Keener-Squire Properties delivered The Drake, a 218-unit apartment building on the First Baptist Church's property in the 1600 block of O Street NW. Now, the church is looking to add…

D.C. residents can opt in to the District's smartphone notification system alerting users of potential Covid-19 exposure starting Tuesday.

The D.C. Council will take the final vote Tuesday on a bill further regulating electric scooter services in the nation's capital.

When the coronavirus pandemic swept across North America in March, it closed schools, businesses, restaurants and fitness centers, forcing many people to work from home and limit their mixing in…

Washingtonian Jameon Gray spent 17 years in prison. Because D.C. doesn’t have its own prison system, Gray was shuffled through federal institutions across the country. His family couldn’t visit for…

The D.C. Police Reform Commission has hired an outside consultant to help examine police practices and the criminal justice system. Impact Justice, a research center based in D.C. and Oakland,…

A federal judge has vacated a rule by the Trump administration that potentially would have cut off Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to more than 20,000 D.C. residents and…

Starting today, residents of the D.C. area may spot helicopters flying at rather low altitudes above the city and surrounding region ahead of the presidential inauguration.

A helicopter flying low over the Washington area on Monday was measuring naturally occurring background radiation as part of security efforts for the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration, according to…

The barely year-old Greater Washington Black Chamber of Commerce has hired its first executive director as the organization gears up for a big fall.

The National Gallery of Art will reopen more galleries next week, but for the first winter in 20 years it will not reopen its popular ice-skating rink in the Sculpture Garden.

A federal judge on Sunday formally struck down a Trump administration attempt to end food stamp benefits for nearly 700,000 unemployed people, blocking as “arbitrary and capricious” the first of…

It’s not a total goodbye. The shop is hoping to pop up elsewhere.