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Students in D.C. will be in school a little bit longer this year.

The District says it has joined a nationwide pledge to increase the percentage of female officers on its police force to 30% by 2030, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. police department announced Monday.

The announcement comes against the backdrop of a federal lawsuit alleging discrimination of Black female police officers.

Gas prices in the D.C. region hit their highest level in a decade, averaging $4.19 a gallon — a number that’s risen by about 45 cents in the last week alone, according to data from GasBuddy.com.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee announced Monday that the city will participate in a national campaign meant to increase the number of women in policing. The 30×30 initiative, as it’s called, encourages…

The plan to redevelop Southwest DC's 15-acre Greenleaf Gardens public housing community has grown in scope since last November.

Starting Friday, visitors to the Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo in D.C. will no longer be required to wear a mask, according to a news release from the Smithsonian.

Latest report on failure to prepare relies on survey of officers

Like prize fighters circling the ring, the three main contenders in D.C.’s mayoral race have spent the last few months taking indirect shots at each other. But it wasn’t until Saturday that Mayor Muriel Bowser, Councilmember Robert White…

As many pandemic housing payment relief programs have run their course, another federal program has recently started to ramp up.

With a second day of a protest convoy circling the Capital Beltway, DC officials continue to prepare in case the demonstrators head into the District today or later this week.

Over the course of a recent week, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser presided at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new hospital, unveiled an anti-crime initiative and celebrated the opening of the city’s first drive-through Starbucks.

A coalition of D.C.'s excluded workers is asking for $160 million in the mayor's upcoming budget.

“What’s the difference between Jeff Bezos and me?” For some time now, I’ve asked people that question when discussing the book business, which Bezos and I are both in.

The circumstances of the second-grader’s disappearance from the homeless shelter were unusual, but her vulnerability was not.

On what would have been former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry’s 86th birthday, the District celebrated his life Sunday with live performances and an art auction as part of “Marion Barry Day.”

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A large group of truck drivers who object to COVID-19 mandates drove two loops around the beltway surrounding Washington, Sunday, deliberately moving slowly to impact traffic and make their feelings known to…

The People’s Convoy that came across the country to protest COVID-19 restrictions is wrapping up its second circuit of D.C.’s Beltway Sunday afternoon.

An armada of drivers calling themselves the “People’s Convoy” is circling the Beltway at a deliberately slow speed Sunday as an act of protest against pandemic restrictions.

The space used to be an office, but it is now filled with treadmills, boxing rings and other training equipment. On Saturday, the DC Department of Parks and Recreation celebrated the grand opening of the Columbia Heights Boxing Club at the…