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Federal emergency funding is being sent to D.C. to repair the Lane Place Bridge over D.C. 295 that collapsed last month after being hit by a truck.

Following a rise in coronavirus case rates across the region and the increasing threat of the highly contagious delta variant, as well as new CDC guidance, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser issued a new mask mandate that takes effect Saturday, July…

As I settled in Wednesday evening to review D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s (D) much-ballyhooed Public Safety Update, I received a Fourth District police alert regarding a robbery committed around 11 p.m. in Ward 4 by two men armed with…

"We're just going to keep on working, keep on struggling, and we gonna win this fight one day."

D.C. says it’s “on track” to get money to those who need it through the Stay DC plan.

An affiliate of New York-based asset management firm Blackstone Group has bought the Courtyard by Marriott Washington Capitol Hill/Navy Yard hotel for $52.6 million, according to D.C. land records.

COVID-19 cases in the D.C. region are steadily rising once again, driven by pockets of unvaccinated people, the highly contagious new delta variant, and some asymptomatic or mild breakthrough infections in vaccinated people.

Markita Bryant does not feel it is safe to send her 10-year-old son back to his D.C. school for in-person learning. The fifth-grader has asthma that puts him at high risk of severe illness if he contracts the coronavirus.

Standing in front of a bar on 14th Street shortly after a gunman opened fire on the busy corridor in Northwest Washington last week, a group of men argued about who and what to blame for the increase in gun violence in D.C. that sent…

In the early days of the Covid crisis, when the worsening pandemic seemed to bring a different piece of bad news literally by the minute, Carmen Romero wondered if her affordable housing nonprofit just might go under.

The Anacostia River has been too polluted to swim in for decades — a swim ban has been in effect since the 1970s. But recent cleanup progress has led officials to start talking about revisiting the ban, with the goal of allowing swimming…

Nyiah Courtney’s family is going through horrifying anguish right now, and our hearts ache. Six-year-old Nyiah was killed walking home in mid-July in her Congress Heights neighborhood. She had a right to live a long, peaceful life. This…

Any delusion that our city’s gun violence afflicts only certain (poor) neighborhoods has to have been erased by the past several weeks.

Ahead of a looming deadline for the District to use its federally allocated rent relief funds, local advocacy groups are pushing the city to make the application process easier to navigate for people who speak little or no English.

Mayor Muriel Bowser is restoring the District's indoor mask mandate as of Saturday morning in response to increased community spread of the coronavirus along with new information about the extra dangers presented by the delta variant.

D.C. jail officials turned away GOP members of Congress who showed up Thursday at the jail, saying they intended to inspect the treatment of suspects detained in the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress overwhelmingly passed emergency legislation Thursday that would bolster security at the Capitol, repay outstanding debts from the violent Jan. 6 insurrection and increase the number of visas for allies who worked…