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D.C.’s three monkeypox clinics will be merging with the COVID Centers in wards 2, 3, and 8 starting Saturday. Services will remain the same — the monkeypox clinics will continue to be walk-in and offer first and second doses.

It was Oct. 11, 1972. The crumbling D.C. Jail was about 100 years old. The facility, designed to hold 550 people, was holding a population of about double that size. People detained there complained that they had virtually no recreation…

The first time I — and, by extension, much of America — heard of Mike Fanone was about a week after the Jan. 6 insurrection. Fanone, then a D.C. police officer, had been brought to a building overlooking the U.S. Capitol to speak to…

Enforcement of the District's immunization requirements began today in DC schools for students in pre-K through the fifth grade.

A quarter of the city’s school-age population is still behind on required shots

In D.C., where disenfranchisement is personal, they soon will

A new partnership between D.C. and the XQ Institute — a nonprofit co-founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs — aims to reimagine what high school in the District looks like.

It is clearly too soon to tell whether Metro’s new general manager, Randy Clarke, will be successful in getting the troubled agency back on track. He has been on the job less than three months, and the challenges facing Metro are…

A scathing federal audit of the D.C. Housing Authority found that the agency is failing in some of its most basic tasks, from maintaining public housing units in habitable condition to ensuring that every usable unit is actually offered to…

On a chilly October Saturday, Norma Lomax came to the Congressional Cemetery in Southeast Washington to say goodbye to her brother. She wore a pin emblazoned with his name, Alan J. Barnes, and an image of him superimposed on a cross…

A D.C. council member is promising to fix the District’s Housing Authority after a federal report laid out a series of critical issues with the agency, most notably its failure to provide safe and sanitary housing,

Real people — moms, grandfathers, students — came up with plans to stop shootings, and the city gave them grants to put their ideas into action

A scathing audit from HUD calls for top to bottom reform and training for the executive director and board of commissioners in the basic functions of their jobs.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said a review of all claims against Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Chris Geldart, including his compliance with the District’s residency requirement, is ongoing after he allegedly assaulted a man in Arlington,…

The mostly low-income kids in the Eastern High School Marching Band are beloved by the mostly affluent D.C. homeowners who witness their practices

The National Gallery of Art announced Friday it will reveal new findings about Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer to be examined at the Vermeer’s Secrets exhibition, opening Saturday.

Inadequate management, poor oversight and faulty governance drove the D.C. Housing Authority’s failure to provide “decent, safe, and sanitary” housing for its residents in violation of federal requirements, HUD investigators have…

The D.C. government is reviewing whether D.C. Deputy Mayor of Public Safety and Justice Christopher Geldart is meeting the requirement that high-level officials reside within city limits, D.C.'s mayor said Friday, after a police statement…

Experts had long wondered whether “Girl With a Flute” was really one of the world’s few paintings by the Dutch master. The pandemic gave the museum a chance to investigate.

Final site development plans for the 11th Street Bridge Park have been approved, the National Capital Planning Commission announced on Friday. The new elevated park project will span the Anacostia River, and will repurpose existing piers…