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As coronavirus restrictions are lifted in the D.C. area, libraries are opening their doors again.

Today, the D.C. Council will consider a series of emergency bills that significantly infringe upon the authority of D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to manage the procurement process, which, in this case, involves vendor contracts with a…

Anyone 12 and older will be able to receive a COVID-19 vaccine at several D.C. public schools starting Tuesday.

Public health restrictions imposed to slow the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic are loosening, people are dining indoors again in greater concentrations, and the Memorial Day weekend offers renewed optimism for bar and restaurant owners in…

The university is the only campus in the District that will not require returning students to be vaccinated

Exactly a year after racial justice protesters were forcibly cleared out of a downtown D.C. intersection near the White House, a religious leader who will forever be associated with the historic event is reflecting on the moment.

The 7th graders at Two Rivers Public Charter School in Northeast learned to code in a month’s time and developed apps addressing concerns they faced during the pandemic like mental health, food insecurity and even boredom.

The relaxation of D.C. parking enforcement due to pressures of the coronavirus pandemic is ending. D.C. will resume all parking enforcement starting June 1.

The president is the most famous person in D.C. (sorry Ovi), so when he ventures outside his usually insulated orbit, it’s going to draw some semblance of A-list attention.

Le Diplomate, a District institution that’s no stranger to high-profile diners, received some famous visitors on Memorial Day.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s plan to pour more than half a billion dollars into affordable housing isn’t enough to meet the need or halt gentrification in the city, but give her credit for trying.

In the diverse and expansive Washington region, around 40 percent of the roughly 700,000 public school students are learning at least once a week in a school building. The other 420,000 students have been entirely remote since the…

With a year of mostly virtual learning winding down, and fewer than a third of D.C.’s public school students in classrooms part of the week, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) made an ambitious assertion: School buildings are to open full time in…

Thousands of motorcyclists taking part in the Rolling to Remember rally kicked off their ride from RFK Stadium to the National Mall on Sunday. The demonstration began at noon with an estimated 50,000 bikers.

Our family is always flattered when my father, Robert Kennedy, is referenced in current public debates … if the result reflects his essential values. In the recent wrangling over D.C. statehood, however, his 1963 testimony before the House…

Brenda Richardson stood before 31 young men and women in their final weeks of training to become D.C. police officers. They were on a street corner in Richardson’s neighborhood in Southeast Washington, where crews from rival streets trade…

Murmurs from a group-therapy session drifted down the hallway to Carolyn’s small office on the second floor of Regional Addiction Prevention Inc.'s building in Northeast Washington.

President Joe Biden’s budget proposal would give DC a win on abortion rights but leave another key wish unfulfilled.

The D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences (DFS), a once-vaunted crime lab now mired in management woes, will cease its work on criminal investigations while a consultant conducts “a complete assessment of the agency,” with police and…

Washington Teachers’ Union President Elizabeth Davis was intoxicated and speeding on Easter Sunday when she crashed into another driver’s vehicle on April 4, killing both of them, according to a Maryland State Police investigation.