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Metro paid $1.3 million to a company that federal prosecutors said was involved in the conspiracy

D.C. officials have been struggling to get lead out of the city’s drinking water since at least 2004, when one of the nation’s worst-ever crises of lead-contaminated water was uncovered here. Now, the city may not be able to meet its goal…

Like a beer and a shot or peanut butter and jelly, D.C.’s hottest recent pairing seemed to be the COVID-19 bivalent booster and flu shot — so much so that the city now says it’s run out of free doses of the flu shot.

For even the most devoted D.C. politics junkie, it can be difficult to keep up with each and every campaign endorsement. And while voters probably shouldn’t entirely rely on what any single person or group suggests, endorsements can be…

D.C. Council members Kenyan R. McDuffie (D-Ward 5) and Elissa Silverman (I-At Large) rolled out high-profile endorsements this week in the race for the District’s two at-large seats as the November election nears.

The chairman of the D.C. Council’s public safety committee called for a “fundamental cultural shift” at the city’s 911 call center.

Two sitting DC Council members are spotlighting new endorsements from high-profile politicians as they seek to mobilize support in the hotly contested at-large DC Council race.

A day before Lizzo’s public performance, she spent a private afternoon at the Library of Congress, playing several flutes from its impressive collection

Advocates are urging the Council to protect struggling homeowners ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline.

It only took ten seconds to cut the ribbon on a project that was more than 10 years in the making.

Legislation that would allow noncitizens to vote in local elections in the District quickly gained momentum Tuesday as a committee approved the bill, sending it to the full D.C. Council for consideration.

A Lidl food market opens Wednesday morning in the Southeast D.C. neighborhoods of Hillcrest and Penn Branch.

More than 40 years ago, a young woman — she had just graduated from college — jumped 125 feet to her death from the Duke Ellington Bridge over Rock Creek Park in Adams Morgan. Her death spurred her parents to push the city to erect an…

D.C. residents on Tuesday celebrated the opening of a new supermarket east of the Anacostia River for the first time in 15 years — offering a much-needed grocer in a sector of the city that contains the highest concentration of food…

A D.C. Council committee unanimously approved a bill to allow non-citizens to vote in local elections on Tuesday, with an amendment clarifying this would include undocumented residents in addition to those with legal permanent residency,…

Amid continuing concern about food deserts on DC's eastern end, officials marked the opening of the first new full-service grocery to debut east of the Anacostia River in more than a decade.

In an ideal world, C., would only have one patient during a 12-hour shift as a labor and delivery nurse at Medstar Washington Hospital Center — but these days, that’s almost never the case.

The DC Council's transportation committee is pushing forward legislation to provide most DC residents with up to $100 a month to spend on public transit.

D.C. has finally collected two months' worth of wastewater COVID-19 data, but has yet to send it to the CDC or make the data public.