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For the first time in D.C., cannabis dispensary workers ratified a union contract with their employer—a landmark not just for the dispensary’s employees, but also for the city’s nascent marijuana industry.

Planet Word, which claims to be the first museum in the world dedicated to language arts, opened its doors Thursday in D.C.'s historic Franklin School after a months-long pandemic-related delay.

A new museum dedicated to language, Planet Word, opened this week in the historic former Franklin School building at 13th and K streets in Northwest D.C.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is requesting permission from the D.C. Council to transfer $43 million from elsewhere in the District budget to cover the costs of police overtime expenses during racial justice protests since the spring.

The region’s newest hotel option, the first local outpost of the citizenM brand out of Europe, has opened in Southwest D.C.

Demonstrators took to the D.C. streets in late May, protesting police brutality and the systemic racism Black people face. It was part of a larger movement inspired by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, but Floyd wasn’t the…

The Franklin School in downtown Washington has been empty for more than a decade, except for a brief period in 2011 when the Occupy Movement used it as a homeless shelter. One of the most significant historic structures in the city, and…

Tell a joke. Give a speech. Sing a classic rock anthem. You can do all of these things — and more — at Planet Word, a museum of words and language opening Oct. 22 in downtown Washington.

The coronavirus has disrupted the Marine Corps Marathon this year, forcing the annual race to go virtual. But that’s not the only adjustment some of this year’s runners have had to make.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has reimbursed the District about $90 million — or about $130 for each resident — for fighting the novel coronavirus. Neighboring Montgomery County has gotten $20,000, or about 2 cents per resident. …

The Boeing Co. has donated $5 million to Children’s National Hospital for its new Children’s National Research and Innovation Campus, currently under construction in D.C.

The term “shadow delegation” conjures up all kinds of mental imagery — few, if any of it, pleasant. It sounds like the title of a bad Tom Clancy political thriller rip-off or a conspiracy theory.

Gentrification has dramatically transformed parts of D.C. over the past decade.

Five landscape architects unveiled proposals Wednesday to save the sinking Tidal Basin on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The plans run the gamut from a conservative approach to radical reimaginings.

The D.C. Public Schools system is well on its way toward undoing a gross insult to residents of the city. At the urging of the D.C. History and Justice Collective, and with support of students, alumni, D.C. Council member Mary M. Cheh…

Happy Wednesday. A labor panel may have thrown a wrench in the District's plans to reopen elementary schools next month. A ruling from the Public Employee Relations Board says DC officials violated city law by not collectively bargaining…

Three openly gay candidates are running for seats on the D.C. Council and another three are running for seats on the city’s nine-member State Board of Education in an election on Nov. 3 with a record number of candidates competing for…

The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance announced on Sunday, Oct. 18, that it has revised its rating on LGBTQ issues for Statehood Green Party candidate Peter Bolton, who is one of four candidates running for the Ward 2 D.C. Council seat,…