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It’s fitting that a new park just a block from the tracks leading to Union Station has a boxcar. The feature is just one aspect of NoMa’s initial design for an empty lot that is set to become a new 8,400 square-foot public space in as…

On Wednesday, the House Oversight and Reform Committee will mark up House Resolution 51, the pending D.C. statehood bill. The bill, which has enough co-sponsors to pass the House and nearly enough for the Senate, given filibuster…

After deadly Capitol attacks, lawmakers consider what fences should stay or go

A female American University professor said the business school is paying her male colleagues “tens of thousands of dollars” more than it's paying her, according to a discrimination lawsuit she filed against the university.

Local leaders are pausing use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine this week at the recommendation of federal health officials, who say they are reviewing extremely rare but severe blood clots identified in six women who had…

At the end of September, the NoMa Parks Foundation announced its purchase of a vacant lot to create a sister park to Swampoodle Park across the street. Now, a design concept is on the table.

It’s been one of the most closely watched office buildings under development in the District, and after two years of work, Carr Properties is scheduled to deliver Signal House near Union Market later this month.

D.C., Maryland and Virginia are pausing the administration of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine Tuesday, hours after the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that six people in the…

Demonstrators marched through downtown D.C. late Monday over the shooting death of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, after the Minnesota city’s police chief described the 20-year-old man’s death as the result of an “accidental discharge”…

When communities face spikes in homicides and shootings, such as the spate residents in Ward 8 have seen in recent weeks, a predictable pattern often follows.

DC announced on Monday a new $350 million program to help residents who fell behind on rent and utility payments over the pandemic.

A concession worker at Nationals Park has tested positive for the coronavirus.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Monday announced a $350 million assistance program for D.C. residents trying to pay past and future rent and utility bills.

As eligibility for the coronavirus vaccines expanded to all D.C. adults on Monday, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) made clear that the city will keep its focus on equity, despite demands from residents and businesses to open access as widely…

Jim Pagels loved bicycling and was well aware of the dangers of riding on city streets. On Friday afternoon, he tweeted about his ordeal going through a massive intersection to get to a coronavirus vaccination site in the nation’s capital.…

Frederick Gilchrist disembarked a shuttle transporting unsheltered residents to a vaccine clinic in downtown D.C. on an overcast day in April. He rode with fellow residents of the VA Medical Center in Southeast, waiting patiently for their…

After an empty runaway train on the Red Line went unreported to managers, Metro’s general manager is changing the rules on what incidents require an emergency response.

An avid cyclist who was killed Friday in a crash near Union Station will be remembered in a memorial ride Thursday.

D.C. will use $350 million in federal funds to offer qualifying tenants help covering overdue rent and utility payments, following activists’ demands that the city give struggling tenants additional assistance as the pandemic enters its…

In a subsidized Marshall Heights apartment that is crawling with pests, a mother of two is always cleaning. But despite her best efforts, there are always cockroaches in the shower, she says, and mice inside the walls. Outside her front…