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The Hail Mary moment was met with pure joy.

In the District, school officials announced a plan to try to get information about virus cases to families sooner.

Transit agency said infections among employees have skyrocketed, going from 18 to 100 in two weeks

The transit agency said it will now inspect wheels on all 7000-series cars every day

Metrobus is adding more buses and increasing the frequency of trips to its system immediately after the Christmas holiday.

Metro abruptly halted its phased return of 7000-series railcars to service Thursday afternoon, after deciding the trains needed a more stringent inspection schedule than initially planned.

The National Cathedral, along with a number of other area churches, has moved all of its Christmas services online as D.C. and its suburbs experience an unprecedented spike in new COVID-19 cases.

A 9-year-old who was struck by a car while leaving school on Dec. 10 may be paralyzed from the neck down, his mother said in a statement released Thursday.

D.C. is now one of the biggest hot spots for the coronavirus in the U.S. The average daily cases have increased by about 1,300% since the beginning of December.

The omicron variant is spreading rapidly throughout the world and D.C. has recorded record numbers of positive COVID-19 cases for more than a week. On Dec. 22, DC Health reported more than 1,500 cases. Since the burst, Mayor Muriel Bowser…

A family tradition of giving continues in D.C. with a hope of putting homemade meals in the bellies of hundreds of District residents this Christmas.

A New York-based real estate firm faces the loss of its interests in D.C.’s Union Station after it allegedly defaulted on a loan backed by its leasehold interest in the rail station’s commercial space.

No state in the nation has recorded a higher rate of covid-19 infection over the past week than the District of Columbia. Justifiably concerned, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Wednesday announced the city will impose a vaccine mandate…

For some homesick students, covid-disrupted travel is ‘almost impossible’

The DC Child and Family Services Agency's investigations often aren’t launched in the timely manner required by law — and are frequently closed too quickly and labeled “unfounded” or “unsubstantiated.”

The 9-year-old boy who was struck by a driver next to his school on Wheeler Road SE earlier this month may be paralyzed from neck down. Kaidyn Green is one of several people who’ve been seriously injured by drivers while walking the road…

Construction agent watches as stone bearing his grandfather’s name is lowered into place

Twin toddlers ran around a D.C. firehouse Wednesday, there to be reunited with a D.C. firefighter paramedic who delivered them in the field over a year ago.