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President Joe Biden named a slate of judicial picks Tuesday, and some of the nominees represent firsts for D.C. and Maryland.

The controversial debate over whether sodas and other sugary drinks should be taxed at a higher rate is coming back to the D.C. Council.

Roadside Development and Dantes Partners are moving forward with a long-planned condo project at 8th and O Streets Northwest in D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood.

Data briefly posted on a D.C. government website last week offers an unusual glimpse at how the city’s vaccination system is working, and for whom.

A new bill seeks to require more nutritious meals be served at DC homeless shelters and repeals a sales tax on sugary drinks in favor of an excise tax that would be factored into the price of soda and juice as shown on the grocery shelf. …

For many people heeding the advice of the National Park Service and others not to see D.C.’s iconic cherry trees in peak bloom in person again this year, they’re turning to virtual options.

The proposed restrictions on the Washington Channel, along Fort McNair and near D.C.’s Wharf district, are not linked to recent reports that Iran has made threats against the U.S. military installation, an Army official said Monday.

On June 27, 1978, a trio of District firefighters were inside a house on Woodland Drive NW when one of them had a sickening realization.

For nearly a year, the D.C. Jail has been on a coronavirus lockdown. Inmates have lived in their cells for 23 hours a day. They are not permitted to see their families or friends. Even interaction with attorneys is sparse. One inmate…

Mobile clinics are bringing the COVID-19 vaccine to tenants who live in public or affordable housing. For residents, getting the shot has never been easier.

Opponents of the redevelopment of the McMillan Sand Filtration site are mounting another legal challenge to the project, though their options for continuing to block demolition on the property are dwindling.

Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners is hailing a top new retail tenant at its two-building multifamily development across N Street SE from Nationals Park — even as it stands to lose another planned heavy hitter at the project to bankruptcy.

It’s been 16 months since visitors last walked through the Great Hall of the Building Museum, but the building dedicated to buildings will reopen on April 9.

Here’s the good news: After a glorious stretch of unseasonably warm weather, the cherry blossoms in downtown Washington have reached peak bloom earlier than expected.

The National Building Museum joins a handful of other museums in D.C. that are reopening to the public.