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The Cloyd Heck Marvin Center, named after a former university president who advocated for segregation, has been renamed the University Student Center.

Public health officials were already struggling with how to persuade coronavirus vaccination holdouts to get the shot. But declining case rates and a highly contagious variant have made their work at once more difficult — and more urgent. …

Five parts of the city that could be classified as "urban heat islands."

KCE Champions, a before and after school child care program in D.C., will have to change its business practices —­or face a $250,000 bill.

Individuals can help up to 11 people get the shot, meaning someone can make up to $561.

Last Thursday, as stylist Roi Barnard deftly trimmed Judith Turner’s reddish-blond locks, he told the story of the macho man who years ago came to him for a haircut at his eponymous salon, Salon Roi.

George Washington University’s Board of Trustees voted to change the name of the student center, Cloyd Heck Marvin Center, due to the namesake’s legacy of enforcing racial segregation.

District Department of Transportation officials said Tuesday they are evaluating whether to rebuild the pedestrian bridge at Lane Avenue over I-295, which collapsed last week after a truck hit it.

The pedestrian bridge that was hit by a truck before collapsing onto D.C. 295 last week may not be replaced, said Everett Lott, director of the District Department of Transportation.

Two years after DC United awarded development rights to Hoffman & Associates for the site beside Audi Field, we are getting a look at what is planned.

In its ongoing effort to boost vaccination rates east of the Anacostia River, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration will expand its existing $51 gift card offering to people who help a friend or family member receive a shot at three…

District officials launched a new incentive on Tuesday to get more people vaccinated against the coronavirus: $51 Visa gift-cards for those who help the unvaccinated make a plan to get a shot at one of three city sites and accompany them…

The answer is . . . complicated.

DC is hoping to turn everyday citizens into organizers for the vaccination effort, pledging to award individuals a $51 gift card for each unvaccinated person they bring to one of three clinics for a shot.

A deal has been reached with several pizza shops in the Adams Morgan neighborhood in D.C. aimed at keeping sidewalk trash manageable. The restaurants have agreed to cut down on the use of big pizza boxes on weekends after 10 p.m.

More managers appear to have departed from the embattled D.C. crime lab, which saw its accreditation to perform forensic testing withdrawn in the spring amid an investigation over its handling of a ballistics error in a murder case.

Go-go has seen a swell of public appreciation in recent years. First, at the 2019 BET Awards, D.C. natives Regina Hall and Taraji P. Henson joined Sugar Bear of Experience Unlimited (E.U.) and Rare Essence’s James “Funk” Thomas for a…

“We are demanding that they shut down. So if they continue to try and open, we are going to be protesting.”

While crowdfunded real estate development is not quite as popular as a few years ago, a mixed-use offering is on the table in DC.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and other community leaders gathered at the Edgewood Recreation Center on Monday to launch summer programs for kids, including one aimed at improving the reading skills in young children.