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D.C. residents have a crowning interest in Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democratic majority maintaining control of the House of Representatives in the upcoming midterm elections. House Republicans have served public notice that…

The DC Department of Corrections agreed late Monday that it would submit to five unannounced inspections of Covid-prevention measures at the DC Jail over the next six months.

The University of the District of Columbia is one year into its $2 million memorial campaign honoring Edwin Bancroft Henderson, an alum and civil rights champion for Black participation in physical education.

After 20 years leading DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, Walter Smith will step down this year as executive director. Much of the center’s work has been done behind the scenes, and that makes it all the more important to now call…

Former New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez could soon notch a home run off the field in Washington. Once called a “druggie” and a “joke” by former president Donald Trump, A-Rod is reportedly a major investor in the deal to buy the rights…

The D.C. Department of Corrections on Monday agreed to implement a package of COVID-19 protections as part of a settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought by prisoners at the D.C. Jail.

In place for a month, the District's vaccination mandate for admission to restaurants, bars, sports and entertainment venues, health clubs and certain other places is no longer in effect, though businesses may continue to require proof of…

The D.C. Department of Corrections has agreed to five unannounced inspections of the D.C. Jail over the next six months to measure its compliance with coronavirus-related protocols. The inspections are part of a settlement announced…

The Wharf-proximal pipeline continues to grow.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration uses the encrypted messaging app WhatsApp widely across the city government, nine current and former staffers or those within the mayor’s circle tell Axios.

Several D.C. council members are criticizing the mayor's decision to drop the indoor vaccine and mask mandate in the coming days and weeks.

The end of D.C.’s mask and vaccine mandates means that some residents, particularly parents of children under the age of five, and those who are immunocompromised, are re-calculating risk as some D.C. council members criticize the move.

Good news if you live in D.C., Maryland or Virginia: A trade group says there are fewer bridges here that are in bad shape when compared with other areas in the U.S.

In the late ‘90s, Theresa Silla, the executive director of the District’s Interagency Council on Homelessness, left her home in Ethiopia to study ecology and economics at Yale University.

A day after a rash of Apple iOS users reported they were unable to access D.C.’s official sports betting app ahead of — and throughout — the Super Bowl, a spokesperson said Monday that the service was now working and that the D.C. gaming…

Mandate reversals spark quick backlash from residents to restaurant workers, with potential political impacts.

A sports bar called The Big Board on the H Street Corridor that’s garnered national attention for publicly flouting D.C.’s mask and vaccine requirements may have caught a break on Monday.