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D.C.’s paid leave program offers two months of paid leave for new parents, two weeks for prenatal leave, six weeks for family caregiving, and six weeks for personal medical leave.

D.C. officials Wednesday announced they are resuming paid coronavirus leave for city workers — a measure that comes as cases have surged in the region, leaving employees who test positive few options other than using their sick leave to…

The H Street Corridor once epitomized DC's development boom, but construction activity in the area has now largely moved east of the city's Starburst intersection.

Thousands of child care workers across D.C. could receive additional pay this year worth up to $14,000. This is part of a longstanding plan to gradually increase salaries among educators who care for infants and toddlers — and who…

The bill also includes a requirement to notify families of positive cases in classrooms.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced a modest pay boost for substitute teachers on Tuesday, a gesture that some educators and community members quickly dismissed as not enough.

In his sermon of March 19, 1922, the Rev. J.B. Hunley of Hanover Avenue Christian Church in Richmond, reflected upon a series of “sad tragedies” that had recently bedeviled the region: a hotel that burned, killing 12; an airship that…

The pace of new COVID-19 cases continues to drop in the District by various measures, although community transmission remains high and the climbing death rate is approaching the numbers seen one year ago.

D.C.’s Black mortgage applicants are denied at almost three times the rate of white applicants.

A bill passed by the D.C. Council on Tuesday will require public schools to notify parents if a student in their child’s class has tested positive for COVID-19 within 24 hours.

Hundreds of people participated in a Peace Walk in Ward 8 with the family of Martin Luther King III on Jan. 17, the official holiday of his father, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to call on the U.S. Senate to pass voting rights and…

D.C.-area Democrats on Capitol Hill hope again to remove the name of a segregationist from Chevy Chase Circle: Francis Newlands.

Harry Thomas Jr. has dropped out of the Ward 5 council race and will instead run for shadow representative for D.C. in the U.S. House of Representatives, he said Tuesday evening.

The first weekend of D.C.'s new vaccination requirement to enter bars, restaurants and other indoor businesses ended with only one business citywide reported for not enforcing the new rule.