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This weekend, as temperatures are expected to reach 100 degrees or higher with the heat index, the District is extending hours at 11 outdoor pools across all eight wards. Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a heat emergency through Monday.

Shawn O’Donnell, 40, worked for the State Department and loved to travel, her mother said

Dennis Sobin first ran for D.C. mayor 40 years ago. Since then, he’s made millions in the sex trade, lost those millions, moved to Florida, spent years in prison, gotten out, launched a nonprofit, written plays for the Kennedy Center’s…

The House of Representatives passed the fiscal year 2023 DC appropriations bill yesterday without the longtime riders that have limited the District's ability to spend local funds on abortion and on regulating recreational marijuana.

The history of Woodlawn Cemetery in Southeast D.C. spans nearly 200 years, and the latest chapter involves a mission to restore the grounds.

After almost a decade of planning and fundraising, the 11th Street Bridge Park is preparing for construction.

There’s some new retail coming to Ward 8, and the entrepreneurs opening there say that they hope the development at St. Elizabeths East will have a big impact on the community — and on their organizations too.

It should come as little surprise that the federal government intends to end the recreational use of upper Beach Drive.

DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is seeking emergency funding for humanitarian assistance to help migrants arriving in DC from Texas and Arizona.

Andrew Clyde, a Republican junior member of Congress from Georgia, is now D.C.’s biggest nemesis on the Hill.

The National Park Service is seeking public comment on a $100 million project that would restore portions of the sea wall along the Tidal Basin and West Potomac Park in D.C.