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Metro’s safety board gave its initial approval July 15 to a policy that would temporarily ban people charged with sex or weapons offenses on Metro property. The full Board of Directors is set to vote on the policy Thursday.

The owner of the Washington Capitals, Mystics and Wizards has sued its insurance provider for denying claims totaling "hundreds of millions of dollars" in losses tied to the Covid-19 pandemic, which forced it to shutter facilities…

Alexandria, Virginia reached “substantial” COVID transmission rates Tuesday, prompting city officials to recommend that residents wear masks inside of public and private buildings, regardless of vaccination status.

WASHINGTON (AP) — What started as a few public comments from former first lady Michelle Obama has resulted in a new permanent public display in Lafayette Park that details the role of enslaved people in building the White House.

Thousands of properties in the District are vacant or in need of repairs, but the city has lost out on millions in tax revenue because it is not charging the owners the higher tax rate for blighted properties.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday that the city will issue new mask guidance “if we need to do anything differently.”

The Yards development in Southeast D.C. has lured another technology company.

D.C. police have arrested a man in the death of 6-year-old Nyiah Courtney, who along with her mother was shot the night of July 16 on a street in the Congress Heights neighborhood of Southeast Washington.

D.C. police have made an arrest in the killing of 6-year-old Nyiah Courtney, who was shot to death on July 16 in Congress Heights.

Government did more for the restaurant industry over this past COVID-Year-from-Hell than anyone would have expected in a capitalist economy. Let’s not waste this opportunity to reinvent ourselves. We need to dump the old churn-and-burn…

While many projects remain stalled due to various hiccups, NoMa's residential pipeline has seen a burst of action this year, primarily on its prominent D-5-zoned sites. This zoning enables high-density mixed-use development without…

At least four D.C. bars will start taking bets through D.C.’s sportsbook, GambetDC, starting Friday.

In response to the D.C. Council’s vote to modestly increase taxes on high-income earners in D.C., business leaders and commentators have drummed up fanciful stories of D.C.’s high-income earners fleeing for low-tax areas in the suburbs.…

Metropolitan Police Department Officers Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to offer their firsthand accounts of the Jan. 6 insurrection as the new House investigation gets underway.

WASHINGTON (AP) — During emotional, tense and sometimes angry testimony Tuesday, four police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 vividly recalled the violence they endured while fighting against a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters. …

On July 27, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention walked back some mask-wearing guidelines, recommending fully vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in parts of the country where the coronavirus is surging.

The first meeting of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack was perhaps the least surprising but most important session the panel will hold. As the debate on the facts of Jan. 6 descends into another war of…