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We now know what happened to the people who were forced out of a park near the White House, and it’s concerning

The Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, a new addition to the D.C. skyline will soon adorn the District’s driver’s license and ID cards. D.C.’s official bird, the wood thrush, joins cherry blossoms, which were on the last generation of the…

The continuous enrollment provisions implemented during the pandemic wound down as of April.

Thousands across the D.C.area have lost Medicaid coverage in recent months, as pandemic protections that allowed people to stay enrolled without reapplying came to a close. Known as “Medicaid unwinding,” states are resuming annual Medicaid…

About 72,000 D.C. residents stood to benefit from President Biden's loan forgiveness plan before it was struck down by the Supreme Court last week.

Education officials in D.C. say they don’t expect hunger to have any days off this summer — students will have access to free meals at over 100 sites while school is out.

The July 8 event is both a tribute to progress cleaning up the river, and a signal that work still needs to be done

D.C. Water has released a new plan to replace lead pipelines by 2030, including an increase in the cost for the plan to $1.5 billion.

D.C. goes big on the Fourth of July, but it's all about hometown Washington at the 57th-annual Palisades Parade and festivities.

Administration of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) increased the HPAP’s maximum allotment significantly last year — but funds are now unavailable until October

“It’s not safe in D.C.,” said veteran D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8) during a WJLA-TV interview last week. “So, we’re going to ask people to keep their kids in until we create these safe environments.”

As a result of revelations that the DC Department of Motor Vehicles didn't record some drunk driving convictions into its database that would have led to license suspension or revocation, the agency says it's reviewing 15 years' worth of…

Several D.C.-area universities pledged to keep working to diversify their student bodies following the Supreme Court's rejection of the use of affirmative action in admissions.

The D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles says it is reviewing 15 years worth of DUI and other traffic-related convictions to check if they were properly placed on drivers’ records, which in some cases would have triggered a license suspension…

A D.C. bill that aims to provide relief to local restaurants in light of the city increasing the minimum wage for tipped workers is turning out to be almost as contentious as the ballot initiative that dictated that increase, as was…

The DC Department of Human Services won't be reopening applications for the Emergency Rental Assistance Program until the start of the new fiscal year in October — despite the receipt of $33 million in federal funding for rental assistance…

A bill introduced Wednesday would require sexual harassment complaints against mayoral appointees to be investigated by a third party

A fire destroyed the toys left for a girl in a historical Black cemetery. In recent days, strangers have brought her new ones --- and gone beyond that.