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The first committee hearing on the bill is Thursday.

The George Washington University “Colonials” will soon be no more: the college announced on Wednesday that it’s officially dropping its long-held moniker, which has been criticized for glorifying colonialism, slavery, and racial…

With the Democratic primary election for D.C. mayor less than a week away, more than 36,000 people have already voted, dropping off or mailing in their ballots or casting them at an early voting location. That is more than one-third of the…

In the days before Tuesday’s D.C. Democratic primary, some mayoral and council candidates are going negative, attacking their opponents through TV and digital ads and mailers.

D.C.'s gobbling serial attacker has disappeared without a trace.

Most political missives stuffing D.C. mailboxes these days look pretty much the same, plastered with bright colors, block lettering, and smiling faces, so it can be easy to disregard them entirely on the way to the recycling bin. But every…

Monumental Sports & Entertainment is opening a business suite in Washington’s Capital One Arena that will be operational on a year-round basis.

Metro says it will bring back eight 7000-series trains on Thursday. Officials held a final safety meeting Wednesday.

A college dormitory in Brookland has been transformed into the first shelter for unaccompanied minors between the ages of 13 and 17 in Washington, D.C. Its objective is to help adolescents who crossed the border alone, and arrived in the…

Amid a flurry of announcements in the Ward 3 race, three current DC Council members said yesterday that they were endorsing Matt Frumin, with incumbent Mary Cheh having announced her support the night before.

As housing costs rise, there’s a new program in D.C. aimed at making sure residents can afford to stay in their homes.

Kari Cooke, recently tapped by D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser to lead the city’s new Office of Deaf, Deafblind and Hard of Hearing, still remembers longing for a sense of community.

Georgetown University is putting the final touches on its new student apartments on H Street NW, a project the institution’s officials say is the first piece of a larger plan to expand its presence outside of its traditional home base.

Raze applications have been filed for three properties in American University Park that could signal movement on the long-planned development at the site of the former Superfresh grocery site.