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The Washington Housing Conservancy says its purchase of a 212-unit building in Northeast D.C. will help preserve housing for essential workers

It’s just about now that the Christmas tree you meticulously decorated and piled presents under is starting to smell a little less fresh and shedding far more needles than you feel like cleaning up every day. That’s right: it’s almost time…

New legislation removes the cap on the number of medical dispensaries and cultivators allowed in the District

An effort to increase road safety for D.C.’s young bike users and pedestrians includes coming up with a way for students to document “near misses,” those times they’ve had to take evasive action to avoid a collision.

Three busloads of migrants were dropped off outside the Vice President’s official residence on Christmas Eve.

After a year of significant population loss, D.C.’s population recovered slightly this year, according to new numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau.

On Christmas Eve, three buses full of immigrants were dropped off outside the Vice President’s residence in Northwest D.C., and six more busloads of people came through earlier in the week. For months hundreds of migrants who were bused in…

Last December, the omicron variant was tearing through the D.C. region. Cases surged to the highest levels ever recorded, and more people were hospitalized with the virus than at any other point in the pandemic. Healthcare workers,…

Mazza Gallerie, the largely empty shopping center along Wisconsin Avenue at the D.C.-Maryland border, used to be thought of as a local Rodeo Drive. But its stores have been closing over the last few years and now the very last retail…

Three buses full of migrants arrived at Vice President Harris’s residence in Washington from Texas on Christmas Eve amid bitingly cold weather, a mutual aid group said, the latest in an influx of newcomers sent to the Northeast by Southern…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three buses of recent migrant families arrived from Texas near the home of Vice President Kamala Harris in record-setting cold on Christmas Eve.

Children who might have otherwise received nothing for Christmas were able to fill their arms with puzzles, stuffed animals and other used toys.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton announced Friday that President Joe Biden has signed into law a provision that focuses on finding a backup drinking water supply for D.C.-area residents who depend mostly — or solely — on the Potomac River. …

Adnan Syed, freed this fall after more than two decades in prison, is now working with Georgetown University’s Prisons and Justice Initiative, the university announced this week.

A D.C. disability rights group is blaming the death of a psychiatric hospital patient on distracted staff.

D.C.’s 2018 Clean Energy DC Omnibus Act kick-started its progressive transition to all-electric properties. Four years later, the bill’s worst skeptic is the District’s own electricity supplier.

The D.C. government has implemented a pilot affordable housing program designed to convert existing market-rate multifamily units into rent-capped affordable ones, likely at a lower cost than building new affordable units from scratch.

Staff at St. Elizabeths Hospital — the District’s only public psychiatric hospital — should have been able to prevent the murder of a patient in his room in March, according to a new investigative report by Disability Rights DC, the…

The decrepit stadium is being torn apart, and those who went to games there are taking home pieces of history.

The District’s population grew slightly last year, reversing the pandemic-related decline from the previous year, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday.