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The National Park Service announced Thursday that the Independence Day parade in the nation’s capital will be canceled for a second year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

A few months after we first saw the major residential plans that Douglas Development has in the works across the street from Dave Thomas Circle, the project is now rendered in full color.

The National Park Service has announced that it will skip this year’s Independence Day Parade on the National Mall, citing logistics and planning limitations.

As more of the D.C. region gets vaccinated, Metro’s board of directors is looking toward the future — and for a way to coax riders back to the system.

Returning D.C. residents, criminal justice experts, attorneys, and elected officials urged the D.C. Council on Thursday to move on legislation that would simplify the process of sealing criminal records — but debated the details of…

D.C. has pushed its timeline for offering COVID-19 vaccine appointments to all of-age residents up to April 12, according to the city’s health department. And some D.C. residents received a pleasant surprise on Thursday morning, when they…

Since 2015, DC’s various housing agencies have built or preserved about 11,600 affordable housing units, according to the District’s data portal. But in Ward 3, where single-family zoning and sky-high housing prices have historically kept…

“When seconds count, we don’t have minutes,” said the president of D.C. Firefighters Association Local 36.

How should prosecutors treat nonviolent misdemeanors? As a result of the covid-19 pandemic, proceedings in most nonviolent misdemeanor cases in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia were paused last year. In a Post op-ed …

From releasing internal investigations into uses of force to suspending the gun recovery unit.

The District had seen warning signs prior to 2-year-old Gabriel Eason’s death. But after suffering months of abuse at home, in April 2020 Gabriel died from what medical examiners determined was significant head and abdominal trauma while…

The Education Department has made an exception to its requirement that states administer annual exams this year and given the District’s public and charter schools permission to skip federally mandated standardized tests. It cited…

Congress had yet to even schedule a hearing on a measure granting statehood to the District of Columbia when a panel of state lawmakers in Arizona voted in February to take a stand against D.C’s plea to become the 51st state.

DC schools will not administer the standardized PARCC exam for a second year in a row due to the pandemic.

The pharmacies get their supply of COVID-19 vaccines through the federal government, not the District.

D.C. leaders on Wednesday criticized the Metro Transit Police after a video on social media showed four officers holding a woman with a bloody lip facedown on a Metro platform.

I am a long-time resident of Southeast who is deeply concerned that the amended Comprehensive Plan pending before the D.C. Council will increase racial inequity under the guise of ending it.

The bigger sidewalks will allow more space for social distancing and outdoor dining.

Schools in D.C. will not administer standardized tests this academic year, marking the second consecutive year students will not have to sit through the high-stakes exams.

Thirteen-year-old Gabriel Molina recalls the day the police showed up at his soccer practice.