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D.C. is set to extend a pilot initiative where certain calls to police involving mental health emergencies are routed to city social workers who are better equipped to handle the situation, Bloomberg CityLab reported Friday.

It has been 17 years since a D.C. advocacy group found that the giant insurance company CareFirst was hoarding excess surpluses and shirking its responsibility as a nonprofit insurer to provide services that benefited the community. “Its…

Georgetown University’s law school experienced a 41 percent increase in applicants for the fall 2021 entering class

The Trump Organization has been in discussions to sell the lease to Miami investment firm CGI Merchant

(CNN) — The Trump Organization has reached a deal with the investment fund CGI Merchant Group to purchase the lease for the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, for $375 million, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The Smithsonian is celebrating its 175th anniversary celebration with a new exhibit that doesn’t look at the past, but instead what we can expect to see in the future.

A while back, I got an email from a reader who was curious why I’d used the expression “a person experiencing homelessness” in one of my columns, rather than “a homeless person.” I was happy to explain — and to admit that 10 years ago I…

Officials at Howard University have confirmed the school responded to a flood Friday on the fourth floor of College Hall South, a student residence hall located near Bryant and 14th Street, Northwest.

D.C. received what they called a blessing from the Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church while on their afternoon commute — $20 to use for gas.

On Saturday, Good Food Markets opened in Ward 8 as part of an initiative to bring healthier options and more access to food in the area.

A new Good Food Markets location opened in Southwest D.C.’s Bellevue neighborhood this week, making it just the second full-service grocery store in Ward 8.

In the three years of owning her Chevrolet Tahoe SUV, Crystal Hinton of Northeast Washington has never filled her gas tank completely. It costs $40, she said, just for a half a tank.

The Duke Ellington School of the Arts will delay an event renaming its theater after Dave Chappelle until April. The decision from the Northwest D.C. performing arts high school comes after Chappelle’s latest Netflix comedy special, “The…

Less than two weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention formally recommended that children ages 5 to 11 should receive the FDA authorized Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, D.C. area health officials say they have vaccinated at…

Friday marked 31 days since some Howard University students began their occupation of the school’s Blackburn University Center building to protest a range of concerns they say the D.C. school has not addressed.

D.C. lawmakers will vote to confirm Christina Grant as the new state superintendent of education next month, but this week, she took questions from lawmakers about how she plans to run the city’s public and charter schools.

No Kings Collective invited more than 100 artists and a slew of independent curators to a three-day art fair, and the group expects more than 12,000 guests to check out the show this weekend in Northwest D.C.

Officials said the school plans to discuss Chappelle’s special and how it relates to artistic freedom

D.C. is extending a pilot program that calls on the Office of Unified Communications to dispatch less police and more social workers for 911 calls involving mental health emergencies. Bloomberg CityLab first reported news of the program’s…