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Within a couple of hours on Monday evening, a notably hot day in the Washington area became a spectacularly stormy day as winds rose, rain pelted down and trees toppled.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is crystal clear in her message: On the first day of school, Aug. 31, she wants every student learning in person.

Skanska is switching its strategy for a big NoMa development, aiming to bring more residential to a bustling section of the neighborhood instead of pursuing long-stalled office plans.

"There’s plenty of space," the chairman says.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) is urging the D.C. Council to reconsider its vote last week to raise income taxes on the city’s wealthiest residents, though council members on both sides of the issue say options to reverse the decision are…

This year's RAMMY Awards include categories such as most innovating to-go packaging and best pandemic patio scene

Crumbs & Whiskers closed for the pandemic. Now open again, it aims to save 500 cats.

The 'W' will soon come down from the W Washington D.C. hotel, a little more than two years after the property's Dubai-based owner completed a $50 million renovation of the luxury branded hotel.

D.C.’s waterfront live performance venue The Anthem is scheduled to reopen its doors Friday with a special performance: comedian Dave Chappelle.

Last week, DC Health released data, including new information about local “breakthrough cases."

A handball player turned sales trainer for Nissan, a rhythmic gymnast turned Orangetheory instructor, and other veterans of the Games in our midst.

The Anthem, the performance venue that anchors The Wharf on D.C.'s Southwest waterfront, is reopening Friday with D.C.’s own Dave Chappelle as headliner.

President Joe Biden announced his nominees Tuesday for U.S. attorney roles in Maryland and the District of Columbia. State Delegate Erek Barron (D-Prince George’s County) will serve as Maryland’s first Black federal prosecutor if confirmed…

No place in the Washington area was safer on Friday morning than the Golden Corral restaurant in Largo, Md., where more than 80 retired District policewomen had gathered for a reunion breakfast. These were ladies with whom you would not…

Two former prosecutors, one of them a Maryland state lawmaker, were nominated by the White House on Monday to serve as U.S. attorneys in Maryland and the District.

Veteran D.C. restaurateur Mark Bucher thinks his industry is spending too much energy bemoaning the problem bars and restaurants are having finding people to fill the job openings they have, and not enough energy making those jobs ones…

A week. That’s about all D.C.’s gunfire problem got from the nation’s conscience.

Last year’s coronavirus restrictions forced D.C. restaurants to adapt, with many shifting to “streateries” — and now, these improvised outdoor dining spaces are on their way to becoming permanent.

It’s hard to dispute that the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris wasn’t an architectural marvel. Constructed beginning sometime in the 1200s, it continued to hold religious services until the day it caught fire in 2019. Eventually it’ll hold…