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After years of negotiations and sometimes tense debate about a new hospital on the St. Elizabeths East campus, Mayor Muriel Bowser and other DC officials enjoyed a victory lap with a midday groundbreaking celebrating what's been newly…

The DC Council will vote Friday on whether to reinstate a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for admission to restaurants, bars, health clubs, sports and entertainment venues.

In place for a month, the District's vaccination mandate for admission to restaurants, bars, sports and entertainment venues, health clubs and certain other places is no longer in effect, though businesses may continue to require proof of…

With COVID-19 cases in the District down by about 90% from their peak in late December and early January, Mayor Muriel Bowser today announced an end to the indoor mask mandate as of March 1. She also is dropping the vaccination requirement…

Joining what's been called the Great Resignation, Ward 3's Mary Cheh has announced that she won't seek a fifth term on the DC Council after all.

The upcoming budget season is coinciding with a mayoral campaign and public safety concerns stemming from a rise in homicides and carjackings in recent years.

An unexploded shell found in 2020 on National Park Service land near the Fort Totten Metro station may be linked to the World War I-era chemical weapons testing facilities that many decades later forced a prolonged cleanup in Spring…

Pierre L'Enfant is headed to the U.S. Capitol later this month — an arrival at least two decades in the making.

Mayor Muriel Bowser won't present her proposed fiscal year 2023 budget until mid-March, but she announced today that it will include a 5.9% increase to the Uniform Per Student Funding Formula as well as a $36 million "recovery fund" to…

The branding debut of the Washington Commanders may have drawn mixed reviews in recent days, but it is helping the long-standing debate over a new stadium in DC command attention once again.

A new lawsuit claims that the Metropolitan Police Department has slowed its response to Freedom of Information Act requests from reporters, attorneys and community leaders deemed to have embarrassed or criticized the department.

DC's budget season is getting underway with yesterday's release of the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report.

DC Health issued new guidance yesterday on "test-to-stay" programs at schools, as well as amended protocols for ending isolation after a positive COVID-19 test result.

Broadly hailed for the renovation of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library downtown, the DC Public Library system is drawing flak for a plan to rename one of the facility's upgraded spaces in recognition of Amazon co-founder,…

Mayor Muriel Bowser is seeking to use eminent domain to revive a long-dormant mixed-use project along East Capitol Street in Ward 7 and ensure it includes a full-service grocery store.

Mayor Muriel Bowser has extended the District's indoor mask mandate through Feb. 28, in part to coincide with cold winter temperatures likely to facilitate the spread of COVID-19 by keeping people inside.

Dozens of DC high school students walked out of class yesterday — most notably at Benjamin Banneker High School — to protest COVID-19 protocols they say are unsafe.

Substitute teachers in DC are pushing for better working conditions and a pay raise, with some calling the city's announcement last week of a $1.80 per hour wage increase an insult.

Mayor Muriel Bowser today celebrated the opening of the brand-new 801 East Men's Shelter on the St. Elizabeths campus in Ward 8 — a milestone in the District's efforts to overhaul services for individuals experiencing homelessness.

The Senate is gearing up to address the "vacancy crisis" highlighted by the DC Courts and local officials as hampering the interests of public safety and justice.