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The D.C. Department of Transportation promised this week improved safety features outside a Northwest elementary school, a day after a boy was struck by a driver outside Truesdell Elementary School, in the Brightwood Park neighborhood.

A new effort will try to offer a lifeline to D.C. street food vendors, many of whom are a mainstay in Columbia Heights and face threat of the criminalization.

A lieutenant with the Metropolitan Police Department is under investigation and on leave for alleged ties to a right-wing extremist group.

A hospital slated to rise east of the Anacostia River will take its name from the nearby estate of abolitionist Frederick Douglass: Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center, GW Health.

A D.C. police lieutenant in the intelligence branch has been put on leave amid an investigation into alleged improper contacts with a prominent member of the extremist group Proud Boys, according to four law enforcement officials with…

COVID-19 hit D.C. resident Wanda Newman hard — not the coronavirus itself, but the effects of isolation and living in a frightened community.

Portia Richardson was a teacher in the D.C. public schools for 10 years, and when she left, “I really thought about ways that I could have provided a more culturally responsive and trauma informed curriculum for my own students,” she told…

An advertising campaign in the New York subway aims to bring Gen-Z and millennial cops to Washington.

After a short-lived month of operation, D.C.’s vaccine mandate for businesses is over.

Here's where you'll need to bring your vax card and ID.

Here are the indoor venues where you'll still have to show your Covid-19 vaccine card.

“We’re talking about the same set of dudes investigating each other over and over.”

The organizers behind the forthcoming 11th Street Bridge Park — D.C.’s first elevated public park — announced Wednesday the first of five commissioned artworks. The Jackson Jarvis Studio, comprised of local mother-daughter duo Martha…

Two new candidates, a neighborhood leader and the former budget director for former-mayor Vincent Gray, tell Axios they will jump into D.C.'s fast-growing Ward 3 Council race.

The one-mile stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue between the U.S. Capitol and the White House has often been called “America’s Main Street” and a “Grand Avenue.” Every four years it serves as the route for the presidential inauguration parade.…

In her three decades on Capitol Hill, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has dealt with all manner of congressional challenges to the District’s autonomy and local government. But she is now raising the alarm over what she says are new…

More space for grand events, wider sidewalks and fewer cars — or maybe none at all.

It will be easier for senior citizens to register for medical marijuana in D.C. next week.

DOES plans to adopt an “earn and learn” approach by offering paid internships and apprenticeships while school is in session.

A month after the public saw the latest plans to redevelop the site of the former Department of Agriculture building a block off the Wharf, the project is moving through the zoning process.