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Three college-bound D.C. high school seniors have been selected as prestigious Milken Scholars this year, each earning $10,000 cash and a lifetime of support with their careers.

Happy Wednesday. A day after DC landed onto the New York region's quarantine list for visitors, Mayor Muriel Bowser urged District residents to avoid unnecessary travel — particularly to 27 high-risk states — and adjusted a key measure…

The second phase of a major development in historic Anacostia is working to break ground quickly to accommodate the timeline of a D.C. agency that will be its largest tenant.

Georgetown University will begin the school year online, the campus’s president announced Wednesday, rescinding previous plans to conduct courses online and in-person this fall.

Repeatedly telling a spokesperson for a D.C. councilmember how he thought she looked in a dress. Sending suggestive, late-night messages to young colleagues. Inviting a news assistant to a networking event, only to bring her to one-on-one…

The protest chants outside the Garfield Senior apartments in mid-July were a twist on the “Black lives matter” chants that have echoed across D.C. in recent months. The crowd of about 30 residents, gathered for a car caravan through Ward…

D.C. has changed a key metric for moving into Phase Three of its reopening plan.

But the mayor recommends businesses call the police if they're afraid of confronting customers about masks.

A traveling exhibit from the International Spy Museum has been pulled after board members of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Illinois raised concerns with Ku Klux Klan robes on display, among other issues.

As Congress formulates its next coronavirus relief package, transit agencies across the country say they need federal help to survive. Metro is in better shape than most, but says the system will need funding to avoid a financial crisis…

When the Northeast Library abruptly closed July 15 for a “deep cleaning,” some residents and D.C. Public Library employees started wondering why.

D.C. officials explained Wednesday when the best time to get tested is for someone who thinks they’ve been exposed to COVID-19 and tightened a key metric the city is looking at for a potential Phase Three reopening.

In a reversal of an earlier announcement, Georgetown University announced Wednesday that classes for the fall 2020 semester will start online.

Safeway is ready for its return to Capitol Hill.

Retailers who encounter customers who flout the face mask requirement in D.C. should call police, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday.

Raise your hand if you have experienced racism at school.

Georgetown University is retreating from earlier plans to bring students back to campus as coronavirus cases surge across the country, becoming the second university in D.C. this week to announce it will start fall classes virtually.

When the District’s Latin American Youth Center ran into financial trouble, Garry Garber, a champion bantamweight boxer and community advocate who spent decades as a social worker with the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation, fought…

John Falcicchio has been an effective political advisor for Bowser, but what does he know about economic development?