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Catholic University is hoping it has a piece of cinematic history on its hands.

The District Department of Transportation will rebuild the collapsed pedestrian bridge over DC-295, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Thursday night, just hours before a D.C. Council hearing on the matter.

The National Park Service is asking the public if parts of Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park should remain closed to traffic, as it has been during the pandemic, or revert back to being a commuter route connecting D.C. to Maryland.

With two-thirds of adult Americans having received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, the quest for herd immunity turns to vaccinating the harder-to-reach communities — including many communities of color, which remain…

Is Georgetown’s history stained as a port in the transatlantic slave trade? Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) introduced a bill for a memorial to Africans brought to the town’s waterfront in the 1700s. The theory lacks direct evidence to…

The District will be getting some new pedestrian bridges soon including a replacement for the one that collapsed over D.C. 295 last month.

The previous bridge, which was 65 years old, was deemed to be in poor condition in its most recent inspection

D.C. Superior Court is offering a chance for people with misdemeanor bench warrants to clear them up at home.

Before the coronavirus forced businesses to shut down, Raina Moreno, 31, was making $15 an hour as a domestic worker. But that money quickly stopped coming in once the coronavirus began to spread in the District.

Norman Bernstein, a Washington real estate developer and philanthropist who championed Jewish causes and housing desegregation, encouraging local property owners to open their apartment buildings to African Americans in the early 1960s,…

At least 17,000 more people moved out of DC during the pandemic than in the year before, a new analysis suggests.

D.C. updated its mask policy inside its government buildings, which will take effect next week.

Nearly half a century ago, a story in Catholic University’s student newspaper described a “precious gift” bestowed on the school by Oscar-winning actress Mercedes McCambridge, then an artist-in-residence in the university’s drama…

Vibrant energy filled the Woodland Terrace community on Wednesday as children from the area clambered over obstacle courses, ate burgers and fried fish, got their faces painted, and chalked the sidewalks as a part of Woodland’s first…

As Shekita McBroom walked down the church aisle in Southeast Washington toward her daughter’s body, mourners could see signs of Jayla McBroom’s youth throughout the sanctuary.

D.C.’s Ward 8 just became a bit more colorful.

An update to the Comprehensive Plan, DC’s overarching planning document that guides growth and development in the District, is moving through the legislative process after Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the bill Wednesday.