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Every third Saturday in September, the environmental group Ocean Conservancy organizes a cleanup event at D.C.’s Kingman Island Park on the Anacostia River.

Patrons of the arts may be able to enjoy concerts and performances in the District sooner than expected. Six D.C. venues will begin hosting live entertainment through October as a part of a pilot program announced by Mayor Muriel Bowser on…

Starting the first week in October, ballots for the Nov. 3 general election will be mailed to all registered voters in D.C. The presidential election has dominated attention, but the ballots will also include contests for important local…

As coronavirus cases in the Washington region hit their lowest levels in months, area school systems are inching toward reopening and normalcy — pledging to gradually usher students back into classrooms, and onto sports fields, over the…

The creation of Rock Creek Park involved a rogue cartographer and a missed coffee break. Yet the District of Columbia’s signature oasis — created as America’s fourth national park — was never supposed to exist.

As part of its Phase Two entertainment plans, D.C. is going to allow live music at six venues in a pilot program.

The 36th annual Helen Hayes Awards were supposed to be May 18 at The Anthem.

The Entertainment and Sports Arena will be a voting supercenter in the District, the city’s elections board said Friday — granting neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River a large-scale location to cast their ballots in the upcoming…

D.C. MAYOR Muriel E. Bowser’s (D) plan for D.C. schools to start providing in-person learning by the end of this month has some teachers, parents and students worried about health risks. Concerns that reopening schools could speed the…

The coronavirus is far from over in the D.C. region and elsewhere. And as the weather gets colder, it’s going to be joined by another, more familiar scourge: the seasonal flu.

It’s evening rush hour in the nation’s capital, and the McPherson Square Metro station on a September Tuesday is all but empty. Thousands once squeezed at this time onto the trains departing from the heart of downtown Washington, two…

The DC Council Committee on Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization held a nearly nine-hour hearing on Thursday that covered five pieces of legislation related to rent control in the city. However, testimony at the hearing was less about…

Malik Sneed has lived in Ward 7 all his life, but says he’s never seen a market in the ward or in the region specifically for Black-owned businesses. He says that some markets and stores are not welcoming of Black businesses, which is why…

A formerly homeless veteran who served as vice chairwoman of the D.C. Housing Authority board said the city terminated her last month after she sought to learn whether the agency inappropriately spent $22,000 on KN95 masks falsely…

TGIF. Four council members want more information from Mayor Muriel Bowser about how schools will be made safe from the coronavirus if they reopen in November.

The National Park Service has awarded a $50,000 grant to D.C. for a study about women’s history and suffrage in the District.