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Before the pandemic, Pimmie Juntranggur worked as a cocktail server at Estuary inside the Conrad hotel in downtown, D.C. When she was laid off in March, she successfully applied for unemployment compensation and received a steady weekly…

For Sakeenah Shabazz, 27, voting this year couldn’t have been easier. The Ward 7 resident received her ballot in the mail, made her selections, dropped the ballot back in the mail, and later checked online to see that it and been received…

An affiliate of Japanese investor N.S.P. Ventures Corp. is weighing the sale of its Judiciary Center office building as its lone tenant, the Justice Department, prepares to move out for new space nearby.

D.C. distiller Jos. A. Magnus & Co. is leaving the District. The company, which produces a range of bourbons and dry gins, announced Tuesday that it is relocating operations to Holland, Michigan, effective October 31.

Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White is facing backlash from community leaders after he attended, and voiced support online for, protests against the developers of the MLK Gateway project—a major mixed-use development project in historic…

Well before the polls opened at 8:30 a.m., Delores McMillian was standing outside Nationals Park, a facility known best for baseball and beer lines. But on Tuesday, the wait for was ballots, and McMillian arrived at 6 a.m. — the very first…

D.C. residents made their way voting centers throughout the District on Tuesday to cast their ballots on the first day of early voting.

While WMATA awaits a ruling from the Mayor's Agent on razing the 14th Street Car Barn, the transit agency is offering some new design options for what could take its place.

American University will double the number of in-person classes it offers come spring, expand face-to-face meetings and extracurriculars and consider bringing more students back to residence halls, the university said Monday.

In one week, Americans will go to the polls to elect their senators, representatives and the President of the United States. The results of the 2020 election will also have a major impact on the future of D.C.’s statehood movement.

Despite a pandemic that presents increased risk for older adults, Viola Hubbard took her place as a poll worker in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday morning, just as she has for every election since Barack Obama was elected president in 2008.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said she plans to cast a ballot in person at an early-voting center later this week, and will vote against a ballot question asking whether the city should decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms and other…

If you think you’ve heard rosy projections about sports betting before — well, you have. When city leaders rushed to enact sports betting in the District in 2018, they promised tens of millions of dollars in new revenue would be flowing…

Nearly 3 out of 5 riders who were hospitalized in the nation’s capital last year were injured riding on the pathways

Happy Monday. DC says about 190,000 residents have signed up for the city's coronavirus exposure notification program via their mobile phones.

American University will double the number of classes it offers in person next semester, though the majority of spring courses will still be online, the school’s president announced Monday.

Counselors are being reassigned to supervise elementary students for their in-person virtual classes when schools reopen.

D.C. police spent $40 million on overtime during the months of demonstrations outside the White House following the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis in May, according to newly released figures from the District.