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The suspense is over for people wondering what will fill the void created when The Oval Room closed in November after more than 25 years of hosting countless politicians and celebrities, power lunches and private events.

At a Tuesday panel discussion on the future of D.C. policing, advocates and experts focused on how to realistically implement recent suggestions made by a D.C. Council commission after last summer’s protests.

With an eye toward advancing racial equity in housing and becoming more inclusive, the D.C. Council voted Tuesday to approve changes to the city’s Comprehensive Plan, a massive document that guides future growth and development in the…

Retrocession is being used to derail what Washingtonians actually want: statehood.

Dredged up, dumped on and overgrown with invasive plants for decades, a pair of islands in the District of Columbia is about to get a long-awaited makeover.

D.C. police have publicly identified the officer who fatally shot a man wielding a gun during a domestic dispute call Friday night inside an apartment in Southwest Washington.

The DC Council balked at the Bowser administration’s request to pump more money into the only full-service hospital east of the Anacostia River — United Medical Center, which is teetering while a replacement won’t be ready for years.

In the 2017 movie, “The Post,” Meryl Streep immortalized Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham in golden caftan glory as she made the historic and career-defining decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, documents about the secret…

The D.C. Council has taken steps to create more accountability in policing with recent police reform legislation, but the city’s police union says some of those changes have made it harder for officers to do their jobs.

A high school teacher at a D.C. private school is currently on the road traveling across the country by foot for a good cause.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday refused to increase the cap on subsidies for the troubled United Medical Center, a decision that will probably trigger a fiscal management control board that city officials say would be disastrous for the…

D.C.’s government is signaling it wants employees who have been working from home throughout the pandemic to return to their offices downtown, with the hope that it will help small businesses and storefronts in the area.

In the District’s rapidly gentrifying Buzzard Point neighborhood, newly arrived residents jog and bike through the dust of a cement plant, headed to and from luxury apartments along the Anacostia River in Southwest. They can rent for as…

After years of public engagement, months of white-hot debate, and likely millions of track changes in Microsoft Word, the D.C. Council on Tuesday advanced amendments to the city’s all-important Comprehensive Plan.

D.C. is offering a walk-up vaccine clinic with a free beer afterward.

On Tuesday afternoon, the DC Council voted to approve a slate of amendments to the city's Comprehensive Plan that strengthen language around racial equity and encourage production of deeply affordable housing.

There’s perhaps no greater example of how a D.C. neighborhood can evolve away from an industrial past than Ivy City’s rapid redevelopment.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday unanimously approved Robert J. Contee III to serve as chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, putting him in charge of the law enforcement agency he joined three decades ago and which now faces twin…

The D.C. Council on Tuesday unanimously approved Robert J. Contee III as the District’s police chief, elevating a native Washingtonian and veteran of the force who lawmakers hope will join with them to reinvent the department in this…

DC Health is making recommendations on reopening based on the number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.