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NEXTfest, a two-day music and arts festival that explores D.C. culture through the lens of music that grew out of the city’s Black community, is back at Malcolm X Park this fall with an expanded program and a focus on D.C. statehood for…

When Fort Totten resident Dan received his twice-a-year property tax bill last week, he wasn’t expecting the surprise he got: D.C. was charging him $19,434.75 for the second half of 2022, almost 10 times the same tax bill for the first…

D.C. announced on August 12 that it is expanding eligibility for monkeypox vaccine doses to include anyone who has had multiple sexual partners during the past two weeks.

Officials say Rahman Mills did not comply with an order to drop a gun. He faces five charges.

The security lines snaked once more out of the Kennedy Center foyer, and Silver Spring teens Amelia Beard, Anastasia Wixson and Ranvita Sen were chattering with excitement. At the end was their chance to see “Hamilton,” the…

D.C. has expanded the criteria for who can get the monkeypox vaccine as the District continues to have the most cases per capita in the country.

D.C. public health officials expanded eligibility for the monkeypox vaccine Friday and loosened the residency requirement as a strategy to destigmatize the virus, even as the city sees record numbers of infections.

Officials concede that a misstep led to a delay in sending help to a call about the boy, who had been left in a hot car

D.C.’s famous Georgetown Cupcake has reopened two days after city health inspectors forced it shut for operating under an expired business license.

Clubhouse, the reboot of the former Church Hall bar and restaurant in Georgetown, appears to be getting pushback to its new “no-one-under-23” policy.

Right off the Metropolitan Branch Trail in Eckington, on S Street NE, stands a century-plus-old former Nabisco factory. Now Lost Generation Brewing Company, it’s the latest brewery to announce its debut in the District. Come this fall,…

It’s been quite a week in the D.C. restaurant world. After two-and-a-half years of pandemic-related struggles and closures, at least five major businesses closed their doors this week alone. Some of the establishments were short-lived:…

Texas and Arizona are bussing migrants to D.C. without proper funding, leaving them stranded, according to Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton.

D.C.'s Housing Production Trust Fund is doling out $170 million to finance almost 1,000 units of affordable housing — including at Buzzard Point, half a dozen sites east of the Anacostia River and the McMillan Sand Filtration Site…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday made a new request to the federal government to deploy the D.C. National Guard to assist with the hundreds of migrants being bused into the city from Texas and Arizona on a weekly basis.

As the District continues to deal with an influx of migrants from the U.S. southern boarder, Mayor Muriel Bowser is again asking for help from the National Guard.

D.C. is undeniably a world-class city. It offers great universities, museums, performing arts, notable architecture and monuments, beautiful parks and rivers, great restaurants, unique opportunities for civic engagement, and myriad…

One bright stage light shines on Cornelius Smith Jr. — an actor best known for his role as Marcus Walker, sidekick to Kerry Washington’s Olivia Pope in the hit TV show Scandal — who stands on a minimally designed set in Arena Stage. Smith…