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D.C. saw a slight uptick in COVID-19 cases, after a two-week lapse in data reporting to the CDC and no new metrics posted to D.C.’s website since the week of April 24.

DC Health on Wednesday said that its COVID-19 statistics are once again being transmitted to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after a gap of nearly two weeks.

Allen keeps cops out of schools over Mendelson’s wishes, and McDuffie defeats Cheh’s effort to defund the Woodley Park Main Street

More than ten years after Miami-based art collecting couple Don and Mera Rubell bought the old Randall Junior High School site in Southwest D.C., the museum the art moguls envisioned there finally has a plan to open this fall.

DC Fire and EMS will hold a parade along the National Mall on Saturday to celebrate 150 years of serving the District and to honor 101 fallen firefighters.

Lauren Grimes encourages high school students to be involved in civics on a local, national and international level.

After not submitting daily COVID-19 case rates to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for about two weeks, DC Health yesterday reported 1,096 cases in the District since April 27.

D.C. police have hired former U.S. Park Police Chief Pamela Smith to serve as the department’s first chief equity officer.

The proposed expansion of Union Station envisions a transformation of the nation’s second-largest rail hub by 2040

School resource officers are one step closer to being phased out in the District’s public schools.

This comes on top of the mayor’s $2.2 billion budget plan

Climbing COVID-19 case numbers are pushing many D.C.-area jurisdictions from low into medium community spread.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday gave unanimous initial approval to the city’s $19.5 billion budget for the coming year, giving Mayor Muriel Bowser funding to hire up to 350 police officers and almost a half-billion dollars for affordable…

The D.C. Council voted to keep phasing police out of public schools — despite the objections of the mayor and city principals’ union, which had said officers are needed to prevent school violence — as it approved a fiscal 2023 budget…

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the owner of a vacant Ward 6 building, alleging that they have made false statements since at least 2015 to avoid paying increased taxes on the property.

It’s the latest bit of fallout from allegations of problems at D.C.’s small business agency.

New York-based JPMorgan Chase, one of the few banks that is expanding its number of retail branches in the D.C. metro area, has cut the ribbon on its new mid-Atlantic headquarters in downtown D.C.