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It doesn’t align with the city’s previous statements about using the honor system to avoid unnecessary barriers.

It could lift tens of thousands of kids out of poverty, prevent dramatic service cuts on Metro, speed COVID-19 vaccine distribution, and give unemployed workers a small boost until they can find another job.

The winter remained tough sledding for downtown D.C. businesses, according to new data from the neighborhood’s business improvement district, with landlords taking an especially tough hit as the Covid-19 crisis dragged on.

A new sports venue is opening in Penn Quarter. The Washington Justice — D.C.'s professional esports team competing in the Overwatch League — plans a permanent gaming facility spanning more than 4,200 square feet.

Swingers, an over-the-top miniature golf course venue with two locations in London, is bringing its “crazy golf” to D.C.’s Dupont Circle.

As recently as last week, getting a vaccine appointment in D.C. was like trying to win in the Hunger Games, according to many of the tens of thousands of residents who attempted to use the sluggish website to secure one of the limited…

A woman lay dying after being trampled by the mob on the steps of the Capitol on Jan. 6, and her friend was trying to carry her across the threshold to police officers guarding the building’s west side, prosecutors said. But within…

The General Services Administration is on the hunt for contractors to help it kick off a major renovation to its Regional Office Building near L’Enfant Plaza, one of the first big Trump administration projects in the D.C. area to advance…

The D.C. chapter of the ACLU is calling on the D.C. Council to modify the city’s First Amendment Assembly laws, citing alleged misconduct by D.C. Police during a mass arrest on Swann Street in June 2020.

A 6,200-square-foot home two blocks from the U.S. Supreme Court has sold for $4.995 million, the highest sales price for a home in the Capitol Hill neighborhood on record.

Johns Hopkins Medicine’s two D.C.-area hospitals have new permanent leaders. The Baltimore-based health system said Wednesday it has appointed a new top executive for Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. And it comes three months after making…

A Capitol Hill home that was once the residence of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass has sold for $4.99 million.

Nearly two years after the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) put its headquarters site at 600 5th Street NW (map) up for ground lease proposals, we are getting the first look at the concept planned for the office…

The District is not adequately collecting and recording key education data, despite receiving federal money to build out a system to store and share the information, according to D.C. Auditor Kathleen Patterson.

D.C. has launched its new coronavirus vaccine preregistration website Wednesday, following several technical glitches over the past few weeks that frustrated residents trying to sign up.

Parents and teachers are looking for digital content to educate and entertain their kids.

Scores of parents, teachers and other public witnesses testified to the DC Council on Tuesday about funding for the public schools and retaining teachers after the pandemic.

“We are at the epicenter of an event that happens nowhere else on the planet,” an entomologist said. "It blows your mind.”