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In 2019, Wesley Hanks of D.C.’s Capitol Hill neighborhood would have spent his afternoons and evenings in the late spring and early summer playing baseball or participating in other structured activities.

The District’s health department published a key metric for the first time Monday and revealed that the number is dismal: The percentage of new coronavirus cases linked to already known cases is just 2.8 percent.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has escalated her dispute with the D.C. Council over police funding, urging the city’s independent chief financial officer to intervene if lawmakers approve cuts to the police department.

D.C. Councilwoman Brianne Nadeau, D-Ward 1, wants to jumpstart progress on the redevelopment of the Park Morton public housing complex after a recent court ruling imperiled part of the effort to replace the aging apartment community.

The Menkiti Group just landed a major office tenant for the second phase of its MLK Gateway project in Anacostia: D.C.’s Department of Housing and Community Development, currently headquartered just around the corner.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is criticizing the D.C. Council’s proposed budget reductions to the Metropolitan Police Department, saying that they could lead to an increase in costs and should be examined by the city’s chief financial officer. …

D.C. is falling far short of its goal when it comes to tracing new coronavirus cases to quarantined residents, according to data released Monday.

Five years after DC solicited development proposals for Shaw's Parcel 42, and nearly four years after a development team was selected, the city is taking up the rezoning that would make the project possible.

Metro is increasing service for Metrorail starting Aug. 16 and Metrobus starting Aug. 23. It’s part of the transit agency’s plan to ramp up service throughout the coronavirus pandemic and return to full service in spring 2021.

Nineteen weeks after shutting down because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Smithsonian Institution is ready to reopen two of its venues.