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D.C. Council members on Tuesday heard from the public about two bills they’re considering that would bolster abortion protections in the city.

An outbreak of monkeypox in D.C. has the health department contact tracing to help control the number of people who are exposed.

Staring Saturday, July 16, D.C. residents experiencing a mental health crisis can call 988, the new nationwide hotline for suicide prevention.

Six months into 2022, there have been 1,528 traffic crashes involving injuries in D.C. Nineteen people have been killed. The deaths follow a year in which the city saw the most traffic fatalities since 2007, including the death of a…

After prevailing in a key House vote, DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is calling on President Joe Biden to endorse shifting control of the DC National Guard from the president to the mayor.

Teachers in parts of the D.C. area resigned in unusually high numbers at the end of the most recent school year, according to data obtained from school districts and analyzed by The Washington Post.

What’s 14 feet tall, weighs 380 tons, lives more than a hundred feet underground, and moves 1/4 mile per hour at its fastest? Alexandria’s new tunnel boring machine, of course!

The D.C. Superior Court and D.C. Court of Appeals had been confronting a record number of empty seats

The $2 billion rail project between D.C., Virginia is on track to double capacity over the Potomac River by 2030

Officials say they have sufficient funds to complete the project and hope to begin construction next year

It’s happening just about every night now, in sight of the U.S. Capitol dome.

As fear of indiscriminate violence escalates nationwide, city officials said they wanted to help educate those who could be vulnerable

The findings troubled board members who have fielded criticism in recent months over concerns about lax management

Officials say they have sufficient funds to complete the project and hope to begin construction next year

The current memorial for fallen D.C. police officers is about 80 years old, but for the retired cops who find it especially meaningful, it looks even worse than that.

D.C. will have its first homeless shelter serving LGBTQ+ adults in August when a 40-bed emergency shelter intended for queer people 25 years and older opens at 400 50th St. SE.

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved an amendment to a major defense bill that would give D.C.’s mayor the power to deploy the National Guard during an emergency.

For some D.C. residents, Dupont’s Swann Street might be associated with the iconic gingko trees, who simultaneously shed their leaves in one dramatic drop each year, blanketing the sidewalk and road.

On a largely party-line vote, the U.S. House of Representatives last night backed the transfer of authority over the DC National Guard from the president to the District's mayor — a change described by backers as a major advancement in…

Advocates fear the city has missed a golden opportunity to gain more autonomy and help incarcerated people.