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“When someone brings a gun and decides to open fire….no permit would stop that. No type of music would stop that.”

Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt is stepping down after leading DC Health for over seven years.

DC Health Director LaQuandra Nesbitt, who led the city’s response to the pandemic for the past two years, will be leaving her post at the end of July.

Metro says it is temporarily pausing the return of its 7000 series rail cars this week to deal with a “data backlog” problem.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Wednesday that $2 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be used to expand breakfast programs at more than 100 of the city’s public schools and public charter schools.

D.C. Health Director LaQuandra Nesbitt will resign at the end of the month, she told The Washington Post Wednesday, ending a near-eight-year run for one of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s longest-serving cabinet members who played an instrumental…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has introduced legislation aimed at protecting District homeowners from their neighbors’ construction-related damage.

In D.C., politicians rarely call it quits.

DC Fire and EMS crews are investigating what caused at least two fires inside the vacant RFK Stadium Tuesday afternoon.

Passengers seeking rides home after watching fireworks at the Mall were met with waits of up to 75 minutes at one station

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson is trying to reform a short-term housing subsidy program that people experiencing homelessness and their advocates have long criticized for failing to provide participants enough support to secure…

The Fourth of July weekend in the District left 19 people struck by gunfire, five of them fatally, raising questions about escalating violence and efforts to quell tensions while trying to keep disputes from turning deadly.

Before last month’s Moechella gathering at 14th and U Street Northwest, 32-year-old Marcellus Queen had a feeling something bad might happen.

Hakan Ilhan has scrapped plans for Lazy Kate’s Bistro, a West End restaurant that was to appeal to younger diners, due to fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.

A few yards down from the Popeyes on Columbia Road in Northwest D.C., nuzzled next to the Metro PCS and beneath a strip of townhomes, a small boom box sits on the sidewalk, blaring a selection of old and new Top 40 music (think: “That’s…

Local abortion funds have seen an influx of donations to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in late June.

At 18, John Alley left Puerto Rico with a dog, an accordion and the clothes on his back, looking for a fresh start from the island he had called home. Alley first went to New York City, but without connections and nowhere to stay when he…

Louis Armstrong, Malcolm X, and Smashing Pumpkins all took the stage there

Gianandrea Noseda gives a preview of the NSO’s exciting recording efforts

DCPS last week finished its first in-person pandemic school year after more than a year of virtual learning.