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Why D.C. has administered less than half of the COVID-19 vaccines it received.

Ruby Corado, one of D.C.’s most prominent transgender activists and founder of the nonprofit Casa Ruby, announced that she will be stepping down in about a year and half from her director position at the bilingual, multicultural…

Months after a map amendment application was filed for a series of properties in the 500 and 600 blocks of Rhode Island Avenue as preparation for a mixed-use development, DC is seeking to rezone its own adjacent site.

Who is leading D.C.’s New Communities Initiative, the nearly two-decade-old effort to redevelop public housing complexes into mixed-income communities? For at least six months now, activists say they haven’t been able to get a clear answer…

A declining population of striped bass has clouded any glimmers of environmental progress in the Chesapeake Bay, according to the latest report from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

The NoMa Business Improvement District has selected Maura Brophy, currently the Federal City Council’s director of transportation and infrastructure, as its next president and CEO.

The pared back Union Market "gateway" project now intends to announce itself to the neighborhood in a big way.

It’s no question that 2020 was a devastating year for the restaurant industry in D.C. Longtime restaurants and bars shuttered, taking away some of our favorite spots to gather. However, there is hope: Some new restaurants will be opening…

D.C. residents over age 65 can begin signing up to receive the Covid-19 vaccine Jan. 11, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday as she laid out the next phases of the city’s vaccination plan.

D.C. police on Monday said they were putting special focus on houses of worship this week as supporters of President Trump who want to overturn his loss return to the city. They come weeks after another protest in which attendees…

Happy New Year. DC is bracing for two days of demonstrations by Donald Trump supporters surrounding Congress' vote to certify November's election, and the mayor has called in the DC National Guard to help handle potential unrest. 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Police in the nation’s capital on Monday arrested the leader of the Proud Boys, who is accused of burning a Black Lives Matter banner that was torn down from a historic Black church in downtown Washington last month.

The leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, was arrested by D.C. police Monday afternoon on a warrant charging him with burning a Black Lives Matter banner taken from a historic Black church during a demonstration last month, officials…

D.C. Police arrested Enrique Tarrio, a leader of the Proud Boys group, on Monday for his role in taking and destroying a Black Lives Matter banner from a historically Black church during the group’s last demonstration in D.C. on December…

Members of the 117th Congress were sworn into office on Sunday and the start of a new Congress means the legislative push for D.C. statehood begins anew. But the path to statehood for the District will still face many hurdles.