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Doubts about the District's sports betting program continue to swirl as initial revenue estimates fall short for its GambetDC app — and particularly amid news that the app even ran a $4 million deficit last year.

The Smithsonian is trying to identify locations for two new museums: the National Museum of the American Latino and the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum. Where will they go?

For nearly two years, DCCovid.com helped more than 18,000 users better understand the pandemic in D.C.— through case, vaccination, and hospital data.

Pictures and letters sent from his mom were a lifeline for D.C. native Marcus Bullock while he served eight years at a maximum-security prison for carjacking.

Rajai Zumot, a Virginia commercial real estate manager, wanted to build a house for his son, who’s getting married in June. So, last year, he bought a wooded quarter of an acre on a hill in Northwest Washington’s Foxhall Crescent, a tony…

The maker of OxyContin and nine states’ attorneys have agreed to a new settlement of opioid lawsuits that will bring more money to victims in Maryland and D.C.

Two years into the pandemic, daily life is finally starting to feel more normal. The White House has dropped its mask mandate for those who are vaccinated. So have Congress and many states, workplaces and school districts. President Biden…

In the spring of 2020, when people across the country were taking up pandemic hobbies like baking and crafting, Ryan Stahlin thought back to the college course he had taken on disease modeling and decided to give that a try instead.

The venue will also play the Ukrainian anthem at upcoming performances.

The area is preparing for an archaeological study of two 200-year-old Black cemeteries.

The leader of a downtown Washington business advocacy group who is under federal investigation resigned Thursday after the organization determined he had improperly granted contracts to a firm owned by a woman with whom he was having a…

Another $120 million in federal pandemic relief money is being released to Metro to keep the transit system running and its front-line workers on the job, congressional leaders announced Thursday.

A heavily-debated proposal to redevelop the WMATA parking lot at Takoma Metro station is back on the boards nearly 16 years since initial plans were introduced.

Buzzard Point's massive power plant is on the path to historic status.

The District is expected to receive more than $31 million to help people recover from opioid addiction as part of a multi-billion dollar agreement with the Sackler family, the owner of OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma.

When the D.C. Council signed off on legalizing sports betting in 2018, one of the main drivers was the potential for tax revenue for city coffers. But new data is showing that while revenue is starting to come in, it’s only a fraction of…

D.C. will no longer report COVID-19 data every weekday. Moving forward, the health department will publish cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, along with other key pandemic indicators, every Wednesday. D.C.’s vaccination data will…

Unlike its six-month stay following the Jan. 6 insurrection, the fencing that surrounded the Capitol for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address has seen a much shorter life.