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The District unveiled a new portal that aims to help current and future homeowners pay their mortgages and property taxes.

Even though microplastics have been found in waterways and other ecosystems around the country, they’re an understudied topic and it’s currently unclear just how many have accumulated in the Anacostia and Potomac rivers.

D.C.’s multiagency flood task force will spend the next year developing plans for extreme wet weather and its impact on residents and infrastructure, with heavy rainfall events likely to grow worse amid shifting climate patterns.

D.C.’s indoor mask mandate is set to end Monday, Nov. 22 — nearly four months after it was reimposed amid a surge in cases over the summer driven by the more infectious delta variant.

Major property owners in Friendship Heights, on both sides of the D.C.-Maryland line, have formed a business improvement district-like nonprofit as they aim for a "new vision and refreshed identity" for the neighborhood.

New terms will emphasize stricter parking requirements and better distribution of devices

Freshfarm, a nonprofit that runs about 30 farmers markets across the region, will take the helm of the city’s Produce Plus program

D.C.’s indoor mask mandate is scheduled to be lifted Monday, but members of the city council are concerned about the decision and are urging Mayor Muriel Bowser to reverse course and keep the mandate in effect as the holidays approach.

WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent review has concluded that the Defense Department and its top leaders acted appropriately before and during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, despite sharp criticism from some local and…

The District will delay clearing the homeless encampment that has filled the park at New Jersey Ave. and O Street NW until after the Thanksgiving holiday to give more residents time to move into housing, D.C. officials said.

The D.C. National Guard’s commanding general was directed twice by Pentagon leadership to send in troops as violence engulfed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, according to a newly released investigation that appears to undercut the now-retired…

What does the future hold?

European and Africa-rooted traditions converse in Sanford Biggers’s “Mosaic,” the 30th installment in the Phillips Collection’s “Intersections” series. But there’s a surprising third participant in the cross-cultural dialogue: Japan.

Fingers trembling on a 38-degree November morning, Glenda Bullock fumbled with the zipper of her shared tent at the New Jersey Avenue and O Street NW homeless encampment in Truxton Circle.

A pilot program years in the making will soon address longstanding problems of access to sanitation and public restrooms for D.C. residents.

The D.C. Council unanimously voted to rename an elementary school in Petworth after U.S. Rep. John Lewis, signing off on a proposal from Mayor Muriel Bowser to honor the trailblazing civil rights leader and Congressman who died last year.…

There are a few big changes coming to D.C. on Monday, starting with the lifting of the indoor mask mandate. The city will also change how it reports COVID-19 data.

Metro said Wednesday that train times on the rail system have improved, albeit marginally.