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The Democratic Governors Association on Tuesday welcomed D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser into its ranks, marking the latest effort by Democratic leaders to support making the District the nation’s 51st state.

The native Washingtonian and three-decade veteran of the force is charged with addressing a rise in murders and calls for reform.

Days of unrest followed the shooting of a Salvadoran man at 17th and Lamont streets NW on May 5, 1991.

President Joe Biden continued his patronage of local D.C businesses on Wednesday by popping into Las Gemelas, a taqueria in the Latin American food hall La Cosecha.

The District's tourism marketing organization is gearing up to launch a $2.5 million ad campaign aimed at getting word out that D.C. is open for business after it suspended most promotional efforts during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Months after D.C.’s police force became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, officials are looking at ways to increase immunization rates among its officers.

Last spring, as D.C. and the world struggled to contain the coronavirus pandemic, the 2.3 million sq. ft. Walter E. Washington Convention Center lay empty — no industry conferences, no auto show. Instead, the convention center’s Hall A was…

The Anacostia area is one of those east of the River neighborhoods in DC where development is being hastened by the relocation of city agencies and investments in public infrastructure. The second phase of MLK Gateway is an example of the…

Kate Monks pushed back her August 2020 wedding by a year “to keep our friends and family and community safe,” she says. But now, even though the region has seen a marked decrease in COVID-19 cases and increase in vaccinations — and…

Children’s National Hospital in D.C. has established a waitlist for children ages 12 and up as the U.S. waits for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue an emergency use authorization for the vaccine in children.

POTUS visited Las Gemelas taqueria to highlight the Restaurant Revitalization Fund.

D.C.’s Office of the Inspector General says it will audit the city’s Department of Employment Services following months of delayed payments and technical glitches that have left many unemployed workers without income.

D.C. police have publicly identified the officer who fatally shot a man wielding a gun during a domestic dispute call Friday night inside an apartment in Southwest Washington.

Despite enrollment loss during the pandemic, D.C. Public Schools will receive at least the same level of funding as last year.

The design for the new residential development planned at the former Capital Pool Checkers Association site in Shaw is coming into focus.

The suspense is over for people wondering what will fill the void created when The Oval Room closed in November after more than 25 years of hosting countless politicians and celebrities, power lunches and private events.

At a Tuesday panel discussion on the future of D.C. policing, advocates and experts focused on how to realistically implement recent suggestions made by a D.C. Council commission after last summer’s protests.