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D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser on Tuesday announced plans to open eight centers — one in each ward — for residents seeking coronavirus vaccinations and tests, as the regional death rate increases and more places consider vaccine mandates.

D.C. public schools will be required to notify parents within 24 hours if any student in their child’s classroom tests positive for the coronavirus, under new legislation passed by the D.C. Council on Tuesday.

In Washington DC, the digital gap has been a longstanding challenge. A quarter of DC households do not have broadband internet connections, with those numbers being over 35% in wards 5, 7, and 8, wards with predominantly Black populations.…

Sens. Chris Van Hollen (D) and Ben Cardin (D) of Maryland introduced legislation Tuesday that would remove a white-supremacist senator’s name from Chevy Chase Circle, in the exclusive, wealthy neighborhood he founded more than a century…

After six years on the job, Metro General Manager and CEO Paul Wiedefeld is retiring, Metro said Tuesday.

Elected officials and residents have sought for years to remove the name of white supremacist Francis G. Newlands from a fountain in Chevy Chase Circle. Now, the effort is getting a high-profile endorsement from two U.S. senators.

Wiedefeld, 66, was hired in 2015 to stabilize the agency after a fatal smoke incident. He will retire in six months.

The District opened four new walk-in COVID-19 centers where residents can get vaccinated and tested on Tuesday, with four more planned to open across the city next week.

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s general manager and CEO, Paul Wiedefeld, notified the agency’s board on Tuesday of his plans to retire later this year.

D.C. opened four “COVID Centers” Tuesday, with a focus on getting more people vaccinated, boosted and tested, and four more centers are slated to open next week.

The bar and burger joint hinted on Twitter it would defy the rules.

Their unit's conditions are "appropriate and consistent with the federal prisoner detention standards," a monitor finds.

After more than six years leading the D.C. region’s transit agency — two during a pandemic — Metro General Manager and Chief Executive Officer Paul Wiedefeld is retiring.

It was another busy day at the public library when a visitor walked up and stood close to the children’s librarian.

Today, D.C. is opening four COVID Centers, where residents can get initial doses of a vaccine, a booster shot, at-home rapid test kits (like the ones currently being distributed at D.C. public libraries), and walk-up PCR testing.

Substitute teachers working for D.C. Public Schools are about to get heftier paychecks.

Grocery chain Wegmans will open two new D.C.-area stores this year, and it is now actively hiring for those locations, a total of 600 current openings.