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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mandate for admission to restaurants, bars, sports and entertainment venues, health clubs and certain other places is no longer in effect, though businesses may continue to require proof of…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.

The burgundy SUV pulled into the food mart and gas station in Northeast Washington on a Saturday afternoon. Two masked people jumped out, pointed guns at the owner of a BMW parked at a pump and demanded his keys, which he quickly tossed to…

Although D.C. won’t have any federal voting representatives on the ballot in November, the outcome of the midterm elections could be consequential for city government, and not just in the pursuit of statehood.

The District is lifting a requirement that businesses in the city check patrons for proof of vaccination against Covid-19, starting Tuesday.

Former New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, once vilified by Donald Trump as a “druggie” and “joke” unworthy of wearing the pinstripes, is now a key part of an investment group seeking to buy the rights to the ex-president’s marquee…

Some missing middle development is on the boards a few blocks from Skyland Town Center.

Two former elementary school administrators in the District are suing D.C. Public Schools, alleging they faced retaliation for protesting the use of a teacher training program they felt discriminated against Black children.

Today I can exclusively reveal the facts behind a brief story that ran in The Washington Post on June 9, 1947. The story appeared on Page B1 under the headline “3-Ft. Snake Fails to Tilt Man’s Eyelid.”