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Against the backdrop of a pandemic that has laid bare the life-and-death consequences of racial and economic inequality in the District, the D.C. Council took its first budget vote on Tuesday. Much of the debate centered on whether to…

The D.C. Council Tuesday evening unanimously advanced legislation that would bring a new $306 million community hospital to the District’s eastern side, filling a gaping hole in the city’s health care landscape that has only worsened amid…

The United Medical Center’s 120-bed skilled nursing facility will close for good, after it temporarily closed down in May because of the coronavirus pandemic.

A series of tax hikes now look to be on the way in the District, as lawmakers continue to advance a fiscal 2021 budget designed to better fund public housing repairs, homeless services and emergency measures tied to the pandemic.

Life was never going to be easy for Latasha Carrington. She has known that since she was a child. In her teens she spent five years in foster care, with 15 families. She had her first child at 19. Now, at 31, Carrington is the mother of…

The D.C. Council on Tuesday raised the gas tax and eliminated some tax breaks for businesses, but rejected an income tax hike for the wealthy, during a contentious debate over how to winnow the budget as coronavirus continues to decimate…

Multiple rounds of intense, boisterous thunderstorms roared through the Washington region Monday evening and persisted deep into the night, producing damaging winds over 60 mph and up to 8 inches of flooding rain.