DC Health issued new guidance yesterday on "test-to-stay" programs at schools, as well as amended protocols for ending isolation after a positive COVID-19 test result.
Officials are investigating bomb threats made against Howard University, the University of the District of Columbia and Morgan State University — less than a day after multiple, historically Black schools were targeted by similar threats.
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When D.C. teacher Kathy Thorne learned another educator at Marie Reed Elementary School had launched a fundraising campaign to provide higher quality masks to his students, she considered ways to copy the idea.
D.C. officials have halted work on what its founder hopes will be the city’s only yeshiva, or stand-alone Jewish study center, after regulators found a two-story building under construction — not the “enlarged family room” for which the!-->…
DC Health released updated coronavirus isolation and quarantine guidelines Monday night, calling for a negative test before ending isolation and detailing what it means to be up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccinations in a school setting.
D.C. Health issued new guidance Monday that recommends how schools considering “test-to-stay” programs should roll out the initiative as an alternative to quarantining and to keep more students in school.
Coronavirus hospitalizations are falling across the Washington region as the omicron wave begins to recede, but experts say hospitals are still coping with staff shortages that will outlast the pandemic.
D.C. officials again urged the community to remain vigilant after three people died Friday of suspected fentanyl overdoses and several others were hospitalized.
Days after posting a tweet questioning President Joe Biden’s plans to put a Black woman on the Supreme Court, Georgetown Law’s incoming administrator, Ilya Shapiro, has been placed on administrative leave.
D.C. first responders and health officials are urging people to get educated about anti-overdose drugs after 10 people overdosed on fentanyl and three died in Southwest D.C. Friday.
Miss Shirley doesn’t usually mind all the ruckus on her Southwest Washington street corner, which was recently prettied up with a sprawling, candy-colored mural of a lotus blossom and a child.
The Washington region’s recovery, and its chances of returning to anything resembling pre-pandemic economic norms, are inextricably tied to Metro’s good health. At the moment, Metro is sick.
A design survey is giving the public an idea of how a stretch of Connecticut Avenue in Chevy Chase DC could be developed. As DC's Office of Planning (OP) continues to work with the community on a Small Area Plan for the neighborhood, the!-->…
A Georgetown apartment building that served as an Army hospital during the Civil War is going on the market with the potential to be turned into condos or other new housing.