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For the first time in a year, the sign at the Wharf that reads “We’ll Get Thru This” seemed to be true. Beneath it, a man on a scooter zipped past the patio at the Grill buzzing with first dates and Prosecco.

The District government launched an unusual effort months ago to limit the spread of the coronavirus: sending pairs of workers into the homes of people who test positive but have not yet been informed, or have not cooperated with contact…

Most Washington-area residents who have spent the past year teleworking because of the coronavirus pandemic could be back to their commutes by fall, but it might not resemble the commute they left behind early last year.

The debate over the fencing surrounding the U.S. Capitol continues, with a cheery protest planned on Saturday and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton still voicing her displeasure.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nobody, it seems, wants to keep the security fence around the U.S. Capitol anymore — except the police who fought off the horrific attack on Jan. 6.

U.S. prosecutors on Friday sketched out the gargantuan scope of the investigation in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, asking for courts to delay most cases by at least two months after being pressed by a handful of defendants and some judges to…

Authorities on Friday arrested a man accused of ripping the badge and radio from a D.C. police officer after rioters pulled him into a manic crowd and beat him unconscious during the Jan. 6. insurrection at the Capitol.

The FBI will be pulling up stakes from part of a Gallery Place office building it has occupied for the past 15 years after the federal government failed to seal a long-term deal with the building's landlord to extend its stay.

Black Lives Matter Plaza will temporarily reopen to traffic for the first time in nearly a year.

A second Georgetown University Law Center professor is leaving the school after an investigation into a conversation between two faculty members that included negative comments about Black students.

Turner Construction Co. and MCN Build LLC have been awarded the construction management contract for the new hospital coming to Southeast D.C.

Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau is calling for D.C. to purchase hotels for continued short-term use in the Pandemic Emergency Program for Vulnerable People (PEP-V) and to be converted to permanent supportive housing units for long-term…

This is a 5000-series train. Well, not exactly. A bar fashioned out of an old Metro railcar is coming to Northeast D.C. complete with the sounds of Metro cars — you might hear a bartender grab a train operator’s mic to say, “Doors opening…

The protesters will show how they used to enjoy the sealed-off grounds.

Marriott has been erased from the Wardman Park hotel.

Evans is late on a $20,000 fine and owes $33,000 more by June.

D.C. and the hospital company United Health Services (UHS) on Friday announced the awarding of a construction contract for a new hospital run by UHS and George Washington University at St. Elizabeths East.

Twenty-three community and faith leaders rebuke the Ward 7 councilmember for "legislative blackmail."

Amid Howard University being knee-deep in planning for the future of their Central Campus and property holdings off Georgia Avenue NW, the plans for their old Divinity School campus in Brookland (map) have been on the back burner.