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During a concert at The Anthem on Monday night, Lorde told the audience she’d been swimming in the Potomac River.

New data from the CDC shows that 75.4% of D.C. children have already been infected with COVID-19.

After leaving city government, Mr. Gibson remained involved in the District’s artistic, educational and financial welfare in high-level positions at foundations and institutes and on committees

DC Public Schools kicked off the new school year Monday with officials touting a $51.8 million modernization of Ward 6's School Within School at Goding Elementary amid concerns from some lawmakers that a third of schools are having to rely…

On the H Street corridor, where city officials have invested resources to combat violence, violent crime is up 89 percent compared with the same time last year

New arrest data shows that Black D.C. residents are arrested almost seven times as often as white residents for opioid-related offenses, which advocates say bolsters their case for decriminalization and the need to move funds away from…

White looks to be the first Fair Elections candidate to finish in the red, raising questions about the program.

As students in the D.C. region return to the classroom, school officials face an academic school year full of challenges, including staff shortages, enforcing vaccination mandates and ensuring the safety of students and staff.

Before the shuttered Wendy’s at “Dave Thomas Circle” in Northeast D.C. gets razed, it’s getting a facelift from DC Walls.

Across the Washington region, more students headed back into classrooms as Maryland’s two largest districts and D.C. public schools began classes today.

In its current session, the D.C. Council has mandated how often hotels must clean their rooms and at what frequency movie theaters must show films with closed captioning, among other measures narrowly targeting businesses’ inner…

Twin lawsuits in the D.C. area show just how fleeting the direct impact of civil litigation can be for incarcerated people

Families collected back-to-school supplies and got vaccinations ahead of the first day for D.C. public schools.

Among the several hundred thousand people who attended the March on Washington, on Aug. 28, 1963, is a Washington woman who says she can remember where she stood to hear Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders speak.

Henry D. Cogswell was one of those guys who got rich then decided the world should notice him. And it did, though perhaps not in the way he intended.

Sean Doolittle is from New Jersey, and Eireann Dolan, his wife, grew up outside Chicago. But don’t get them going about the fact that the 689,000 or so residents of the District of Columbia have no voting representation in Congress.