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The District is adding up to 200 staff members and new technology to help its overloaded unemployment system, part of an $11 million effort to aid residents who are out of work, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Monday.

The area of the Tidal Basin in D.C. that includes national memorials, monuments and iconic cherry trees sits on unstable ground that floods daily, and the infrastructure there is crumbling. But proposals for how to protect the area now are…

The District announced Monday that it will host coronavirus vaccine clinics at a Baptist church as governments in the Washington region looked for new ways to equitably distribute shots while facing hesitancy in some communities hit…

The health department is piloting a vaccine clinic at a Ward 7 church.

D.C. isn’t planning to open a mass vaccination site yet, but the District is teaming up with faith-based partners to spread the good word on getting vaccinated against COVID-19.

"To some extent it’s about trying to help the community feel like it’s not the end of the world."

Back in March, like many around the country, Quinn Goldberg’s education at the University of Michigan moved online. When fall came, Goldberg decided to enroll in virtual classes through Northern Virginia Community College — a move that he…

The D.C. government is investing an additional $11 million into the city’s unemployment insurance program after the coronavirus pandemic exposed massive shortcomings in its system, city officials announced Monday.

If you are running behind on your water bill in D.C., you may be able to get assistance — even if you don’t typically pay your water bill directly.

Some local memes from the pop star's Super Bowl halftime set. Enjoy.

Three D.C. police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol during the deadly Jan. 6 riot received recognition at Sunday’s Super Bowl in Tampa, Florida.

Michelle Walston was confused. Did she just hear right?

The Black Power movement thrived in D.C. and transformed the city’s politics from the late 1960s to the 1990s. But its veterans worry that era is all but forgotten.

The first precious boxloads of the frozen elixir arrived in December, bearing great promise for curtailing the pandemic that has paralyzed the region and the world.

Plain boards that covered buildings to prevent damage if protests went awry were transformed into art pieces inspired by the protests of 2020.

The first day classrooms opened last week at Johnson Middle School in Southeast Washington, just one student showed up. By Friday, nine did.

“IT’S NOT a school unless we have kids here.” That was the principal of a D.C. elementary school welcoming students back to school last week for the first time since March. “I’m just super excited. I could scream at the top of my lungs.”…

Months spent in the sun and rain has warped the wooden works of art. They’ve been tagged and scrawled on, disassembled and pulled down from the windows that sat boarded up for months.

Capitol Police want more security around the Capitol. Rather than listening to them, Congress should pay attention to Frederick Law Olmsted.

On a wintry day in 1968, thousands of women arrived in Washington to protest the Vietnam War. Calling themselves the Jeannette Rankin Brigade, in honor of their leader, the first woman elected to Congress, they planned to march from Union…