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Steven Monfort, director of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, is retiring in August, a zoo spokeswoman said Friday.

A nonprofit that has served the District’s homeless for half a century is at the center of multiple lawsuits over property taxes and the structural integrity of a facility it opened in 2018.

A group of Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners and community leaders (including myself) are hosting a series of pedestrian safety walks dubbed Sidewalk Palooza to draw attention to discrepancies in the District Department of…

It’s been a year since artist Keyonna Jones took part in the painting of the Black Lives Matter mural on 16th Street, at what’s been officially named Black Lives Matter Plaza within sight of the White House.

D.C. lawmakers are unanimously pushing back on a new policy from D.C. Public Schools that will require all volunteers and contractors to undergo drug testing for marijuana use.

A question for longtime locals: How many others can you think of?

Officials in D.C. say they’re planning to roll out an incentive program this summer that would offer some kind of financial reward for those who get COVID-19 vaccinations amid growing concern about a slowing pace of shots.

Meanwhile, the Brightwood Park production facility and tasting room will expand its kitchen and seating.

The greater Washington region will almost definitely meet President Biden’s goal of 70 percent of adults being at least partially vaccinated against the coronavirus by July 4 — with Maryland already there, and D.C. and Virginia close…

Just in time for Pride Month, a local artist has just completed her biggest work yet, and you can see it and hang out on it on the lawn of the National Building Museum.

Fifty years ago, it would have been no easy task to find a white-tailed deer in the District of Columbia. The hoofed ruminants, native to North America, were hunted to near-oblivion by European colonists. But in recent years, an…

This summer, 8-year-old Madison Palmer has big plans.

Halfway through an April markup on the Washington, D.C. Admission Act, Rep. Frederick B. Keller (R-Pa.) appeared on the Zoom screen with a practical question: How would D.C. pay for statehood?

Live music and DJ venue Eighteenth Street Lounge, which closed a year ago after more than 25 years in business, has signed a lease for a new space in Shaw’s Blagden Alley.

Analysis by The Post finds that officials at federal, state and local agencies have struggled to get funds to renters, mirroring problems nationwide.

The entire D.C. region is poised to work together on economic development efforts to reverse its widening gap between the rich and the poor, according to a group of government, business and academic leaders — but the hard part will be…