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The Rev. Michele Morgan was at home recovering from a coronavirus vaccine shot Friday when she got a disturbing call from an employee at her church, St. Mark’s Episcopal on Capitol Hill. He told her there was a green-roped noose, dangling…

Police are investigating a noose that was found hanging from a tree outside a D.C. church.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Friday DC does not qualify for a mass vaccination site because of its population size — smaller than all but two states.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has tapped the commander of the D.C. National Guard to become the next House sergeant-at-arms, selecting the first African American for the post that is responsible for the chamber’s safety, as Congress…

Upper Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park has been closed to cars for most of the pandemic, and a lot of people would like to see that become permanent in D.C.

Howard U, Community Organizations Partner With Allen to Improve Vaccine Access

If you’ve traveled anywhere near the Capitol over the last few months, you’ve seen them.

A noose was found hanging from a tree Friday morning at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill. The church’s rector, the Reverend Michele Morgan, says a local choir was getting ready to rehearse in the church’s nave when they…

D.C. will hand out $66 million in loans to support nine projects that could someday result in the construction or preservation of 1,100 affordable homes.

School officials in D.C., Maryland and Virginia say they plan to adopt revised school reopening guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The guidance reduces the recommended physical distance between students in…

Chefs Stopping AAPI Hate, which launched in early March, is snowballing into a big national effort.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Maj. Gen. William Walker, commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard, was tapped Friday to become the House’s first African American sergeant-at-arms as Congress sorts through the grave security…

Some people who have been receiving unemployment benefits in D.C. were not able to file on Sunday. As a result, they did not receive weekly compensation that many depend on to afford housing and food. Department of Employment Services…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday that she is appointing Major General William J. Walker, the current head of the D.C. National Guard, to serve as the 38th House sergeant-at-arms. Walker will be the first Black man to hold the…

The Lonesome Dove author saw himself as "essentially a bookseller."

Georgetown University has scored a $100 million donation from sports businessman Frank McCourt. It’s the second $100 million gift from the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, whose record pledge in 2013 helped create the McCourt…

The District of Columbia will not receive extra vaccine doses or assistance setting up a mass vaccination site from the federal government, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Friday, because the agency is targeting…

Eight years ago, the Georgetown Business Improvement District (BID) proposed creating an aerial gondola system that would ferry passengers between Georgetown and Virginia.

Townhomes are the next piece of new construction on tap for the massive redevelopment of the Walter Reed campus in Northwest D.C.

“They plan to make the District of Columbia a state — that would give them two new Democratic senators,” said then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), explaining his opposition to D.C. statehood in a Fox News interview two…