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D.C. residents can opt in to the District's smartphone notification system alerting users of potential Covid-19 exposure starting Tuesday.

The D.C. Council will take the final vote Tuesday on a bill further regulating electric scooter services in the nation's capital.

When the coronavirus pandemic swept across North America in March, it closed schools, businesses, restaurants and fitness centers, forcing many people to work from home and limit their mixing in society.

Washingtonian Jameon Gray spent 17 years in prison. Because D.C. doesn’t have its own prison system, Gray was shuffled through federal institutions across the country. His family couldn’t visit for years at a time — an eight-hour drive to…

The D.C. Police Reform Commission has hired an outside consultant to help examine police practices and the criminal justice system. Impact Justice, a research center based in D.C. and Oakland, California, will provide assistance in the…

A federal judge has vacated a rule by the Trump administration that potentially would have cut off Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to more than 20,000 D.C. residents and hundreds of thousands of people across the…

Happy Monday. DC officials are urging residents to opt into a new mobile contact tracing program, which launches tomorrow on iPhone and Android phones in the city.

Starting today, residents of the D.C. area may spot helicopters flying at rather low altitudes above the city and surrounding region ahead of the presidential inauguration.

A helicopter flying low over the Washington area on Monday was measuring naturally occurring background radiation as part of security efforts for the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s National…

The barely year-old Greater Washington Black Chamber of Commerce has hired its first executive director as the organization gears up for a big fall.

The National Gallery of Art will reopen more galleries next week, but for the first winter in 20 years it will not reopen its popular ice-skating rink in the Sculpture Garden.

A federal judge on Sunday formally struck down a Trump administration attempt to end food stamp benefits for nearly 700,000 unemployed people, blocking as “arbitrary and capricious” the first of three such planned measures to restrict the…

It’s not a total goodbye. The shop is hoping to pop up elsewhere.

Orange delivered a speech to a 50-person crowd at the Mansion on O Street in Dupont Sunday evening.

The Shaw restaurant will have a new four-course prix-fixe menu.

Kobe Bryant’s game-worn 2008 National Basketball Association Finals jersey is now on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

The District is launching a new smartphone app to assist in contact tracing as it continues the fight against coronavirus — but it won’t work with a similar tool for Virginia, and Maryland doesn’t have one yet.

Residents can opt in beginning Tuesday, and then be notified if they've unwittingly come into contact with a positive case.

The District’s COVID-19 exposure notification tool will launch this week, the city announced Monday.

While many large cities, particularly San Francisco and New York, have seen a decline in the pace of rising home sales and home prices, and an exodus in renters — the number of vacant apartments in Manhattan rose to 15,000 in August,…