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Children’s National Hospital in Northwest D.C. has formed a Youth Violence Intervention Program to support the children who end up in its emergency room.

Veteran health official Sharon Lewis has been named interim director of D.C. Health, following the recent resignation of Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt.

The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in D.C., has implemented significant changes to increase accessibility and inclusion for its blind and low-vision visitors. But a blind accessibly consultant says more needs to be done.

American University has received a $10 million gift from a longtime trustee and his wife to help fund construction of a new athletic facility, the university said Tuesday.

It could soon be 9:30, again

Since April, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, both Republicans, have bused more than 5,000 undocumented immigrants to the nation’s capital to score political points against the Biden administration’s immigration…

As the redevelopment of the former Department of Agriculture building a block off DC's Wharf moves forward, a few new renderings have been unveiled.

Erica Ahdoot, executive director of Horton’s Kids, a D.C. nonprofit that helps kids graduate from high school and prepare for life, recently co-authored an opinion piece for The Washington Post about curbing gun violence. Reader response…

The stagehands, costume and set designers, electricians, audio engineers, and other production staffers at Shakespeare Theatre Company voted to unionize Monday, the result of an organizing effort that began years ago and intensified amid…

With cases rising rapidly and vaccine supply still severely constricted by federal shipments, D.C. is shifting its monkeypox vaccination plan, delaying second doses and instead focusing on getting first doses to high-risk residents.

McDuffie is starting from scratch as he moves to this independent bid, and he’s turning to a well-connected friend for help.

Amid a rapid increase in the number of local monkeypox cases, DC Health officials have overhauled their vaccine distribution plan to provide more first doses to eligible DC residents rather than a second dose to those midway through the…

New WMATA General Manager Randy Clarke wasted no time trying to make inroads with Metro riders. At the end of his first day on the job on Monday, he talked with dozens of riders at L’Enfant Plaza, hearing frustrations about long waits…

D.C. public health officials are shifting the city’s monkeypox vaccine strategy, using its limited stock of vaccine to give out first doses to the most at-risk population instead of reserving shots for the second dose of the two-shot…

Maybe you, too, have driven in the leftmost lane of a tunnel when you realize, 30 seconds after the GPS signal drops, that you need to exit via the rightmost lane.

Gallaudet University and JBG SMITH have unveiled plans for what might be the largest new residential development to date in the Union Market area.

JBG Smith Properties Co. is looking to build one of the largest developments yet near Union Market.