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Happy Monday. DC officials debuted a new dashboard and new metrics today on the District's coronavirus web portal, but the message from the Health Department remains the same: The District isn't meeting enough of the thresholds to advance…

A former high-ranking D.C. government official has been fined $2,500 by the city ethics board for his involvement in shaping a $225 million tax break for Howard University the same day he discussed taking a job at the university.

The D.C. restaurant industry celebrated its chef and restaurateurs Sunday evening at the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington's RAMMY Awards, held for the first time in a virtual format.

When Penn Quarter’s Cuba Libre Restaurant & Rum Bar reopened in June, CEO Barry Gutin says that business in the neighborhood was slow.

Nothing brightens a woman’s face as much as a fresh dab of lipstick. And when those lips are five feet wide, the effect is stunning.

Peer into a backyard in Columbia Heights and a quartet plays. Walk down the waterfront on the Wharf and a masked instructor stretches into downward-facing dog. Dine on 17th Street NW and massage chairs sprawl across turf grass.

Washington plans to open five voting “supercenters” across the city to safely process large numbers of voters in the upcoming election. But none will be in Wards 7 and 8, which saw some of the worst lines during the June primary and where…

Even though the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum is still closed, there’s another way to see a pantheon of vintage aircraft this week.

Three months after D.C. entered the second phase of coronavirus restrictions, the city’s top public health official introduced new criteria Monday for determining when to lift additional restrictions and enter Phase 3.

But the cafe at the American Indian museum will keep its doors shut.

Ward 5 resident Ronnie Webb applied for about 100 entry-level jobs through the United States Department of Agriculture when he graduated with a Bachelor’s of Agricultural Business in 2011. But he didn’t get one call for an interview.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and National Museum of the American Indian will reopen to the public Friday.

The principal at Whittier Elementary in Northwest Washington was the first to contact the fire department. Students’ smoke detectors kept chirping in the background of virtual classes. The problem seemed widespread at the elementary school…

While the redevelopment of the McMillan Sand Filtration site at Michigan Avenue and North Capitol Streets NW (map) remains on hold, last week, the Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) held a final review of the design for the community center…

D.C. will provide $5 million to child care facilities throughout the District as part of its pandemic relief efforts, the city said Monday.

D.C. added nearby West Virginia and Delaware on Monday to its list of states that require visitors to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in the city.

While most of Twitter was live-tweeting the Emmys last night, D.C. was enjoying a virtual awards ceremony of its own — and ours didn’t need a fire extinguisher. The Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington’s annual RAMMY awards were…

D.C.’s Office of Nightlife and Culture announced a new grant program to help restaurants prepare their outdoor dining spaces for winter.

In the storm of crises (covid-19, the recession, Supreme Court vacancy, etc.), it’s easy to overlook the fact that the United States is engaged in the most intensive purge ever of our common historical memory.