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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.

DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is vowing to defeat a bill introduced this week by Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and five Republican colleagues that would repeal the District's COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

The pace of new COVID-19 cases continues to drop in the District by various measures, although community transmission remains high and the climbing death rate is approaching the numbers seen one year ago.

With the family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. using Monday's holiday honoring the civil rights leader to highlight the importance of voting rights, DC officials echoed their calls and highlighted the lack of DC autonomy as a similar…

Charting the course of the COVID-19 pandemic has proved challenging, but experts are saying that DC's current wave of infections may have peaked — and that the region may be close to doing so as well.

With DC's new vaccination requirements set to take effect Saturday morning, a coalition of congressional Republicans is calling on Mayor Muriel Bowser to reverse course — with one grabbing attention and criticism for comparing the vaccine…

Mayor Muriel Bowser has declared a limited public health emergency through Jan. 26 in response to a request from area hospitals overwhelmed with the spread of the omicron variant amid staff limitations.

Long-standing complaints about unreliable mail service have grown louder in recent days, with some residents saying they're still awaiting their first delivery of 2022.

With COVID-19 case rates in the District still among the highest seen here throughout the pandemic, the DC government is adding new rapid antigen test pickup sites at six senior wellness centers.

DC officials note that just 5.2% of people with COVID-19 are ending up in the hospital, one of the only improving metrics right now on DC Health's summary dashboard that compares today's numbers to those a month ago.