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Hundreds of millions of Americans are tired of not feeling safe in their homes, schools, places of worship and grocery stores.

Life is calmer on this side of town for Stanley Tucker and his 10-year-old grandson.

It's been more than five years in the works, and the District's first Wegmans is nearly ready for opening day.

Ringed by cherry blossoms, the historical basin’s crumbling sea wall will be repaired and the shoreline re-landscaped

Shruti Rajkumar had never partied in D.C. before. She’d just moved to the city in late May and hadn’t familiarized themself with the nightlife scene, including what bars are accessible to people with disabilities. Rajkumar has a physical…

D.C. will offer free career coaching to thousands of residents, through a $3 million program Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announced Thursday.

The performing arts world as we knew came to an abrupt halt when the pandemic started — including what would have been the 15th annual Capital Fringe Festival. It’s taken two years but the plucky theater festival is back, giving artists an…

When Mary Blackford became a vegetarian seven years ago, she spent hundreds of dollars in cab fares traveling out of the Benning Ridge neighborhood in Ward 7 to find fresh fruits and vegetables.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser signed into law Wednesday an emergency bill allowing residents 21 and older to self-prescribe medical marijuana.

Johns Hopkins University has completed its two-part, $372.5 million acquisition of the former Newseum complex on Pennsylvania Avenue NW while continuing with renovations to turn the property into its D.C. graduate hub.

Confusion over paper certification records led to a mass recertification of all of Metro’s rail traffic controllers, according to the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission (WMSC). Some controllers had fallen behind on certifications, and…

“When someone brings a gun and decides to open fire….no permit would stop that. No type of music would stop that.”

Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt is stepping down after leading DC Health for over seven years.

DC Health Director LaQuandra Nesbitt, who led the city’s response to the pandemic for the past two years, will be leaving her post at the end of July.

Metro says it is temporarily pausing the return of its 7000 series rail cars this week to deal with a “data backlog” problem.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Wednesday that $2 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be used to expand breakfast programs at more than 100 of the city’s public schools and public charter schools.

D.C. Health Director LaQuandra Nesbitt will resign at the end of the month, she told The Washington Post Wednesday, ending a near-eight-year run for one of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s longest-serving cabinet members who played an instrumental…