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When Daniella Senior, CEO of D.C.-based Colada Shop, was invited to the White House last week, she was so surprised at the invitation that she asked Vice President Kamala Harris’ chief of staff why she was included.

Area gyms are asking D.C. to review its mask mandate and requesting parity for the fitness industry.

Gyms had to require masks indoors again starting back in August, and owners say they've seen a drop in members taking classes

The long and winding path D.C. lawmakers have taken to ensure more than 250,000 residents don’t lose Medicaid benefits is nearing the finish line.

James Harris squinted into the mist kicked up by power washers scrubbing the sidewalks of the M Street NE underpass on Monday morning as District officials unfurled yellow caution tape around the tents that remained standing.

Kendrah Foster had already planned a Mardi Gras-inspired “staycation” with her three children in July when she heard about a week-long virtual cooking class for Pittsburgh families that featured gumbo on the menu.

Three years ago, a Washington, D.C., woman received a distressed call with an urgent request: Her sister was being admitted to a psychiatric hospital and needed help caring for her then-5-year-old daughter. Could she take her in?

A resident of a homeless encampment in Northeast D.C. was taken to the hospital on Monday, after he was picked up by a Bobcat front-end loader.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday affirmed a lower court ruling that said District of Columbia residents are not entitled to voting representation in the House of Representatives.

An investigation in the New York Times on Sunday alleged that the CEO of a major New York City homeless services provider has personally enriched himself and his family members with city money while running shelters that residents…

Fresh off of its two-month summer recess, the D.C. Council is expected to square off with Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday over an emergency bill that would expand the availability of remote learning for students and allow them to receive…

The Bowser administration continued to feud with the D.C. Council this weekend over which students should qualify to remain home and continue with virtual learning this year.

As a bulldozer crumpled a tent and lifted it into the back of a waiting garbage truck on Monday, some residents of the homeless encampments on L and M Street in NoMa said they weren't moving.

The Supreme Court on Monday affirmed an earlier ruling that D.C. is not constitutionally entitled to voting representation in Congress, deflating hopes among some advocates that they could secure representation for District residents…

Bread for the City, a nonprofit organization in D.C., opened a medical clinic east of the Anacostia River on Monday for the first time in its nearly 50-year history, a sign, community leaders say, that such centers are at the forefront of…

D.C. crews largely cleared out a longstanding homeless encampment along M Street NE in NoMa on Monday morning, but suspended work in the afternoon on a neighboring encampment after an unhoused person in a tent was hit by a city bulldozer. …

On Tuesday, Ward 6 Council member Charles Allen reintroduced his Metro For DC bill, which proposes giving D.C. residents up to $100 a month for SmarTrip use and investing $10 million annually in bus service and related infrastructure.

"We Are All Connected" will mark the end of the author's tenure as the Kennedy Center's Education Artist-in-Residence.

A popular sports bar in Adams Morgan can now call itself a sportsbook — something no other typical sports bar in the country can do.

A new bill in the D.C. Council would require all students eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine to be fully vaccinated by December 15. The bill was introduced today with the support of 8 of the 13 council members, indicating it is likely to…