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D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Thursday that schools in the nation’s capital would start the 2020-2021 academic year all-virtual, a scenario that the city’s leaders had been trying to avoid.

Earlier this month, D.C.’s Department of Health Care Finance announced plans to move forward with sweeping changes to the city’s Medicaid program, which provides health care coverage to more than 275,000 District residents, including many…

Black women in the D.C. earn just 51 cents for every dollar a white man makes, according to a new analysis from the National Women’s Law Center.

The plaza barriers won't go down until August 31. Fencing around Lafayette Square will remain in place until at least July 31.

Since April, we have been sounding the alarm that music venues such as the 9:30 Club and the Anthem cannot survive the novel coronavirus shutdown without federal assistance.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday that city is changing its coronavirus positivity rate benchmark for entering its next phase of reopening.

"It feels good not to go home and want to fall through the door. Eventually, the party’s gotta be over."

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.