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Allowing more than 5,000 cars to drive through D.C.’s largest park every day will improve forest health, and help endangered and threatened species thrive, according to National Park Service officials. Faced with a confused, skeptical and…

A proposed age-restricted apartment building overlooking the National Arboretum could bring new height to its Northeast Washington neighborhood, but not without some push back.

At a public hearing Monday, the National Park Service said that it plans to reopen an approximately 4-mile stretch of Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park to drivers by Sept. 5.

A small crowd of anti-abortion protesters lingered a mere feet away from the entrance of D.C.’s Planned Parenthood clinic for several hours Saturday morning.

The site of some of the nation’s most iconic memorials, and the beloved cherry blossoms, is in need of repair.

Students ages 12 and older will be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine to attend D.C. schools in the fall.

Days after 10 DC Council members called for local assistance to help migrants as they arrive at Union Station by bus from Texas and Arizona, Mayor Muriel Bowser said that it is federal officials who need to step up with needed resources. …

The battle for Beach Drive continued last night as Washingtonians shared their thoughts at a public hearing on whether the stretch of Rock Creek Park should belong to drivers or parkgoers.

D.C. has received 8,300 monkeypox vaccine doses, with 4,000 more arriving next week — but demand still far outstrips supply.

Lopez claimed to fear for his safety following tweets noting his involvement in a 2018 anti-Semitism scandal.

Then-Chief Cathy Lanier found part of Lamond’s explanation “not credible” but reduced his discipline anyway.

The Covid-19 pandemic worsened health disparities for the country’s most vulnerable populations — including kids — and Children’s National Hospital has secured millions of federal dollars to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

The number of buses arriving in the city has doubled, exhausting donations and exceeding the ability of city volunteers and mutual aid networks to respond

The nonprofit, which had closed a shelter for homeless LGBTQ youth in the fall after the city withdrew funding, closed the rest of its programs last week

D.C. is experiencing the largest outbreak of monkeypox per capita in the nation, and the District is distributing monkeypox vaccine by appointment as quickly as vaccine deliveries come in from federal sources.

cA new D.C. Council bill could prohibit solitary confinement in D.C.’s jails and youth detention facilities. The bill, introduced by Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh, would also impose stricter limits on the D.C. Jail’s use of so-called…