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Now that D.C. has dropped its capacity restrictions in most businesses, and lifted many mask restrictions, people in the nation’s capital can do something they haven’t be able to since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020 —…

Officials in Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration say they support some of the recommendations from the D.C. Police Reform Commission to change policing in the city, but are drawing the line at proposals to shrink the size of the…

Live performances are coming back. Here's the when, where, and how.

"We went from being worried that we might go out of business to actually being profitable for the larger part of the year."

The public is now getting a look at the proposed developments being pitched to reshape nearly half a million square feet of land on the former DC General site.

Business in the District makes a big return to normalcy Friday, as capacity limits on restaurants, hotels, gyms and retail stores are lifted.

To this day, only three of the 49 full-service grocery stores in D.C. are located in Wards 7 and 8.

Despite Mayor Muriel Bowser's pledge to avoid budget cuts to schools, some public schools may be reopening next fall without a librarian.

District native and comedian Rodney “Red” Grant declared his candidacy for the mayoral contest in 2022 on May 15 in the historic Anacostia neighborhood’s Old Market House Square in Ward 8.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday narrowly approved $1.9 billion to fortify the Capitol after the Jan. 6 insurrection, as Democrats pushed past Republican opposition to try to harden the complex with retractable fencing and a…

The national push for social and racial justice has taken hold of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, further dividing an already contentious panel and resulting in a change in leadership.

There are accessibility issues at a D.C. memorial honoring President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was unable to walk without assistance after a bout of polio when he was child.

D.C. lawmakers are deciding what bills to craft out of a hefty police reform report issued last month.

A D.C. police employee was sentenced to six months of intermittent incarceration and six months of home confinement for taking more than $40,000 in bribes to divulge confidential information from traffic crash reports that was later used…

D.C. residents weighed in on the new proposed soda tax during the bill’s first public hearing Wednesday.

In Maze’s song “Joy and Pain,” Frankie Beverly sang that “joy and pain are like sunshine and rain” — and that’s been one way to describe this year so far. In the past year, wards 7 and 8 have weathered their share of hardships, including…

First, the D.C. crime lab lost its accreditation. Soon, the Department of Forensic Sciences will be without a director. Last night, officials announced Jenifer Smith, who has led DFS since 2015, will resign effective May 26.