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DC doesn't have plans to ease what is effectively a kind of solitary confinement for 23 hours of the day for the approximately 1,500 inmates at the DC Jail.

Two men were killed in separate attacks in Southeast Washington on Thursday night as homicides in the District continue to rise for the fourth consecutive year.

Lawmakers call for ‘exit strategy’ to what experts call extended solitary confinement

Supporters of a bill to make D.C. the nation’s 51st state, which the House passed this week, often cite “taxation without representation” as a rallying cry.

The head of the Washington Teachers’ Union said families who want in-person learning in the fall should receive it, issuing the labor organization’s strongest endorsement of in-person learning since the coronavirus pandemic closed campuses…

Mayor Muriel Bowser and the District Department of Transportation on Friday announced a new proposed route for the Ward 7 D.C. Circulator bus.

D.C. educators and school leaders are discussing how they plan to get more students to return to in-person learning, and they said it starts with building trust.

In 2020, the pandemic hastened the decline of Friendship Heights, a largely commercial neighborhood straddling the NW DC/Maryland border. On Friday, an Urban Land Institute (ULI) panel presented their thoughts as to how Friendship Heights…

Washington tourist attractions have engaged in a seesaw battle with the coronavirus over the past year. After closing en masse in the space of a few days in March 2020, they began to cautiously reopen over the summer — first the sculpture…

Has masking guidance changed? What metrics are being used to make decisions?

The newly created panel tasked with investigating the Metro Transit Police Department released its first review of the department this week in a two-page document that’s drawing criticism from lawmakers and criminal justice advocates.

D.C. leaders expect all public and charter schools to open for full-time, in-person instruction this fall, and students must attend in person unless they can demonstrate a need to stay home, City Administrator Kevin Donahue said Friday…

The Smithsonian Institution has set reopening dates for the National Zoo, as well as seven of its D.C.-area museums.

ASB Real Estate Investments has sold a nearly fully leased NoMa office building for $201.75 million to Boyd Watterson Asset Management, not quite three and a half years after the Bethesda firm acquired the property for $186.3 million.

Several museums and the National Zoo are set to reopen next month, the Smithsonian Institution announced Friday.

Some of the biggest attractions in the District have announced reopening plans. The Smithsonian says many of its museums and zoo will reopen in May.

The Comprehensive Plan update currently being debated in the DC Council isn’t the only planning document in the works. Also on the Office of Planning’s to-do list are three Small Area Plans — supplements to the Comprehensive Plan that…

D.C.’s public health measures — like mask mandates, indoor dining closures, and capacity limits on businesses — helped the city mitigate the spread of coronavirus last fall and winter better than nearly every other state, according to a…

WASHINGTON — If you've ever seen run-down houses and apartment buildings around the District and wondered what’s being done about them, you're not alone. DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson is asking the same question, but now he's…

Residents of yet another DC neighborhood tell us they have stopped getting mail – and as it has done for months, Seven on Your Side is trying to help.