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Monday's event will focus on voting rights

Alcohol-serving establishments will get two warnings before receiving fines starting at $1,000.

Charting the course of the COVID-19 pandemic has proved challenging, but experts are saying that DC's current wave of infections may have peaked — and that the region may be close to doing so as well.

The Sandlot brand continues to gain momentum.

A group of about thirty unionized nurses and labor rights activists gathered yesterday outside the Howard University Hospital, toting signs calling for action to address nationwide staffing shortages — which they say pre-date the pandemic…

Over 100 new and expectant mothers in D.C.’s poorest wards will receive $900 a month in cash under a new city-funded pilot program to help families raise children.

Wizards and Capitals fans planning to attend a game at Capital One Arena need to be prepared for D.C.’s citywide vaccine mandate for indoor facilities.

Omicron continues to hit the Metro system — and area riders — hard.

Starting Saturday at 6 a.m., the first phase of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s vaccine mandate goes into effect, requiring bars, restaurants, gyms, and other businesses to ask patrons age 12 or older for proof of vaccination.

New and pregnant mothers living in some of D.C.'s poorest neighborhoods will receive $900 in monthly cash assistance, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Thursday.

Metrobus customers have been having a rough week as the transit agency reduced service this week. Riders say some buses aren’t showing up on time, or at all, leading to long waits in frigid temperatures.

Here's what the rare raptor and her many fans have been up to.

Expect Metrorail delays until mid-April.

D.C. Public Schools will require prekindergarten students to test weekly for covid-19 starting this weekend, as a part of new testing initiative in schools, system officials said Thursday.

The winter surge of coronavirus cases may have peaked in the District, experts said Thursday, as Maryland’s governor announced 20 million free N95 and KN95 will be distributed to further blunt spread of the highly infectious omicron…

The transit agency wants to give engineering and mechanical experts time to acquire more efficient technology

A march by opponents of vaccine mandates will take place Sunday, January 23 on the National Mall. The event, called “Defeat the Mandates: An American Homecoming,” plans a march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, where a…