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A bottle of hand sanitizer. An abandoned Metro station. A shuttered Ward 6 high school.

The performing arts venue will evaluate whether the event meets its health and safety standards.

Plans for the pop-up lounge generated confusion and frustration within D.C.'s nightlife community.

When D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine took the extraordinary step of suing the city’s public housing authority in June over failures to keep many of its properties safe, executive director Tyrone Garrett lambasted his own staff.

The longest-running film festival in the nation’s capital is pivoting to virtual this year.

The D.C. Housing Authority is offering up a pair of townhome communities and a parking lot for redevelopment, aiming to bring more new construction to the area around the old Sursum Corda apartments near NoMa.

The NoMa Parks Foundation has acquired a vacant lot across the street from Swampoodle Park, a dog park and children’s playground that opened in 2018, with aims of building a companion park.

Poet Kevin Young will be the new director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture starting Jan. 11. He replaces the founding director, Lonnie Bunch, who was tapped to lead the entire Smithsonian organization.

Longtime local gelato favorite Dolcezza is closing five of its retail locations, citing “the sobering effect that Covid-19 has had on our industry.”

It’s time once again to honor the creative community of the nation’s capital. The 35th annual D.C. Mayor’s Arts Awards will be held Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Happy Tuesday. Howard University today officially announced its hiring of Rashad Young, the former city administrator who negotiated for the job with the school while also working on tax breaks in connection with construction of its new…

The vast majority of people stopped, frisked, or arrested by officers in D.C.’s special gun recovery and narcotics units were Black, according to a new report mandated by the D.C. Council. Black people were the subjects of 87% of stops,…

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A new art display is brightening up a community park in Southeast D.C. that helps provide food to local families and brings the neighborhood together.

In June, Silvia Cordon heard about a new city program from her youngest son’s teacher. The program, called DC Cares, would provide undocumented workers left unemployed by the pandemic $1,000 in direct cash assistance.

Apartments have taken on totally new functions during the pandemic. They’ve become classrooms as kids log into Zoom courses each morning. They’re offices for those who can work from home. Home is where we’re told to stay in order to avoid…

Howard University announced the hiring of a former high-ranking D.C. government official Tuesday, a month after word of the job offer sparked an ethics probe and questions about a massive tax break the city official negotiated for the…

Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in March, public housing maintenance workers have halted routine maintenance and only respond to emergency calls.