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American University President Sylvia Burwell plans to cancel classes on Election Day, citing “civic engagement and the pursuit of American democratic ideals” as being part of the D.C. university’s foundational principles.

U Street Music Hall announced its permanent closure on Monday, seven months after the subterranean club known for its sound system and DJ sets had to close its doors because of the Covid-19 crisis.

Though not unexpected, one of the more painful consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic is that many restaurants and bars have permanently shut down their operations.

When Kojo Nnamdi moved to Washington, D.C. in 1969, he found a city buzzing with political energy and shaped by Black culture.

University of the District of Columbia President Ronald Mason is once again the highest-paid person on the District payroll.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials with the Washington, D.C., Department of Health have been unsuccessful in trying to connect with the White House to assist with contact tracing and other protocols regarding the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak that…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Public Schools in Washington, D.C., will partially reopen their buildings to select students beginning Nov. 9 in a multi-pronged approach as the nation’s capital struggles to return to normalcy amid the COVID-19 pandemic.…

The segment of the District referred to as “official Washington” is often discussed as a separate entity, as if it’s cordoned off from the daily lives of the vast majority of people who call D.C. home. But there’s no discrete barrier…

With news of positive coronavirus results coming out of the White House, how are D.C. officials responding? Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Health Director LaQuandra Nesbitt didn’t have any details to share with reporters at a news conference…

American University will cancel classes and close university offices on Election Day to give students and employees time to vote, the school’s president announced Monday.

Happy Monday. DC Public Schools officials say they intend to offer in-person classes with live instruction for about 7,000 elementary school students in the term that starts Nov. 9, with approximately twice that number able to attend…

The nearly 100,000 D.C. residents who buy health insurance through an online marketplace under the federal Affordable Care Act will see just a small increase in their insurance rates for 2021, in a victory for advocates who worry that…

“THIS IS historically an unloved building that people are ambivalent about. It’s never been a friendly building.” That is what D.C’s chief librarian, Richard Reyes-Gavilan, once said about the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.…

A group of Mexican restaurateurs and investors are opening a new restaurant on D.C.'s 14th Street corridor. Maiz 64, as it will be called, will take over for B Too after that restaurant closed in July due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

If you’re working your way through a ballot in D.C., don’t forget to turn it over: there’s a ballot initiative you get to vote for or against on the other side.

You know that feeling when you’re in the supermarket and end up in the cereal aisle, overwhelmed and unable to choose between 19 different varieties of Cheerios? Yeah, you may experience that when opening up the ballot and looking at this…