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As COVID-19 cases rise across the D.C. region, the Smithsonian Institution announced Thursday that all its museums and the National Zoo will again close to the public temporarily starting on Monday, November 23.

If your stomach is growling, a good cookbook can be a real page turner.

The winter holiday season is traditionally a time when nonprofits count on an influx of contributions. Yet in a year marked by simultaneous health and economic crises, the coming weeks may be even more critical for local charitable…

After spending nearly half a billion dollars to renovate 23 libraries since 2009, the D.C. Public Library has a new request: more money to build new libraries.

The 26 miles of road that make up D.C.'s "Slow Streets" may stick around even after the pandemic is fully cleared up. At least that's what the District Department of Transportation Director Jeff Marootian says.

"What's the location of your emergency?" asked a District of Columbia Office of Unified Communications 911 call taker on June 5 just before 4 p.m. The caller, crying as she reported that her 59-year-old mother passed out after experiencing…

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In January, three young women will begin serving full terms as District lawmakers, shifting the composition of the D.C. Council to majority-female for the first time since 1998.

D.C., Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia are blazing a new path in COVID-19 information sharing. The four have joined in the nation’s first, multistate effort to quickly share contact tracing data.

Who’d guess a mural on the road could help improve safety at intersections? Some are going to get painted on curb extensions in D.C., compliments of federal transportation money helping fund seven projects in the city.

Complaints by staff members and months of internal conflict have led to the ouster of Mosaic Theater Company Artistic Director Ari Roth, who founded the organization as a multicultural theater on H Street NE nearly six years ago.

Happy Wednesday. About 400 children returned to DC Public Schools classrooms on Wednesday across 29 campuses — without teachers in front of them — to take part in virtual classes.

The anti-abortion groups Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America have filed suit against the District in federal court. The issue? Following the District’s decision to paint the message “Black Lives Matter” on 16th…

It has become a familiar pattern in the District. The city and Washington Teachers’ Union near an agreement on how schools should reopen. Both sides indicate that a finalized deal could be imminent. And then, at the 11th hour, it falls…

Two antiabortion groups whose members were arrested for chalking outside a Planned Parenthood office in August sued the District on Wednesday, alleging that the city used defacement of public property laws to “silence disfavored speech.”

Thousands in the Washington region are flocking to public coronavirus testing sites amid a record surge in cases, hoping for negative results before visiting family over the Thanksgiving holiday.

On Wednesday morning, for just a few minutes, the routines unfolding in front of Bancroft Elementary School in Northwest Washington seemed normal. Crossing guard Shaketa Barnes was back at work, excitedly greeting students. “I miss my…

By the time the weather turns crisp and cold, sugar plum fairies and ghosts of Christmases past, present and future are usually deep into rehearsals for performances The Nutcracker, A Christmas Carol, and other holiday classics.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the establishment of a $100 million fund for struggling businesses and updates to the District’s coronavirus testing infrastructure.

Despite officials and experts advising against it, some locals will still be traveling for Thanksgiving. And the region’s transportation agencies and companies are communicating a number of precautions and measures in hopes of keeping them…