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An unprecedented local public health experiment, which required every student and staffer to test negative for the coronavirus before returning to their D.C. public school after the two-week holiday break, concluded as schools reopened…

Every time Harper White looks at the U.S. Capitol dome, he thinks back to the day, one year ago, when he barricaded himself inside a congresswoman’s office a few steps from the House floor and heard the sound of gunfire.

D.C. students who haven’t submitted proof of a negative COVID-19 test before returning to school Thursday will be tested on site, schools Chancellor Lewis Ferebee said, a reversal from a previous plan that drew backlash because it would…

The D.C. Attorney General’s Office is closing the book on a years-long fight against Sanford Capital, one of the District’s most notorious landlords, whose tenants in a Congress Heights apartment building had been forced to live in squalid…

Chief Thomas Manger calls for hiring 280 officers in each year to ward off attrition, beef up capabilities

Thursday's planned auction of the leasehold interest in Union Station’s commercial space has been called off, according to a notice from the auctioneer.

Kaitlin Calogera and Rebecca Grawl’s reference book is an A-to-Z guide to numerous landmarks influenced by women in the District.

Harold Valentine is 79 years old. In 2017, his right leg was amputated, the result of diabetes. For years before that, he’d been active in the Shaw community in D.C., trying to make it a better place to live.

In December, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) published its long-awaited Bus Priority Plan. The plan lays out an interactive map and high-level plan for delivering 51 bus priority projects for the District, in a nod to DC’s…

Four D.C. workers who lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic and experienced gaps in unemployment benefits filed suit against the District on Wednesday, alleging the city failed to explain why their payments were withheld or…

How the pandemic and shifting consumer habits are shaping what we drink and where.

The woman told someone who found her wet and freezing at a D.C. bus stop that she was trapped in the tent for an hour

Halcyon, a D.C. nonprofit that has traditionally supported entrepreneurs and artists, is doubling down on half of that mission — and stepping back from the other.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine claimed victory Wednesday in a long-running lawsuit against landlords and developers who his office said conspired to displace Black tenants from homes they lived in for decades.

The D.C. Council passed a bill Tuesday to provide free period products at every middle school and high school in the city.

Four D.C. area workers are suing D.C.’s Department of Employment Services, accusing the agency of denying or seizing their unemployment benefits with little to no explanation, leaving them financially strapped and without answers during…

A $290 million mixed-use development could rise by the Congress Heights Metro station on property long sought for revival.

DC's Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) published the final rules for enforcement of short-term rental regulations in the city in December. Below, UrbanTurf outlines what homeowners who host short-term rentals need to…