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Muriel E. Bowser (D), the pragmatic politician who has led the District for eight years, won the Democratic mayoral nomination Tuesday, according to projections from the Associated Press, beating out two left-leaning members of the council…

Heather Pinckney, who tried cases as a public defender for eight years with the office before starting her own firm, is returning as director

Siomara Martinez voted Tuesday at the same Columbia Heights building where she attended high school. But when the D.C. resident thought about the past, it was not with nostalgia.

Candidates for elected office and their volunteers fanned out across D.C. on Tuesday, making their final pitches to a seemingly small number of voters casting their ballots at 90 vote centers citywide for the June 21 primary.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden visited a vaccination clinic Tuesday to celebrate that virtually all Americans can now get a COVID-19 shot Tuesday after the authorization of vaccines for kids under 5 over the weekend.

At age 15, Chase Poole already had been shot and wounded twice, most recently in February. The following month, he was arrested in D.C. on a gun possession charge — a pretty good indicator of trouble to come.

It’s a day that some parents have been waiting for since the day their children were born: Kids under the age of 5 are now eligible to get vaccinated for COVID-19.

Dave Chappelle’s name will not adorn the student theater at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts as been previously planned, the comedian announced Monday at a ceremony meant to install the name.

With vaccines offering protection against the coronavirus now available to children under 5, President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are scheduled to visit one of DC's eight COVID-19 Centers this afternoon.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s bid for a third term is in part a referendum on her affordable housing record. One project gone wrong highlights criticisms surrounding the public dollars spent on development over nearly eight years.

Children under the age of five can get their COVID-19 shots starting today after both the Pfizer and Moderna doses were recommended by the CDC.

After months of candidates sniping at each other and D.C. mailboxes being stuffed with an inordinate amount of political mailers, Primary Day is finally upon us.

Those expecting comedian Dave Chappelle to preside over a ceremony naming a theater building in his honor at his alma mater, the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Northwest D.C., Monday night received a big surprise.

District voters headed to the polls Tuesday for the city’s primary election, with the opportunity to select Democratic nominees across several races including mayor, attorney general and several seats on the D.C. Council.

The comedian had faced backlash from students for his comments about the LGBTQ community in a recent Netflix special

A D.C. Juneteenth celebration read the names of 2,000 soldiers who, in 1865 in Galveston, Texas, helped spread the word that slavery had been abolished.

There’s an obvious problem in the D.C. cannabis market: Recreational sales are still not legal. As D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen, D-Ward 6, stated at a recent hearing, “There is no such thing as a commercial transaction that is I-71…

Officials say the 15-year-old killed in the incident had been shot twice before

On Tuesday, voters will head to the polls to select Democratic nominees in several D.C. races, including mayor, and pick nominees in some of Virginia’s most-watched GOP congressional races.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will visit a Washington, DC, vaccine clinic offering Covid-19 vaccinations to children under the age of 5 on Tuesday, a White House official told CNN, in an effort to highlight the rollout of…