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For D.C. Board of Elections Chair D. Michael Bennett, the presidential voting underway in the nation’s capital is a chance at redemption.

After a seven-month closure because of coronavirus precautions, Ford’s Theatre and Museum will begin a phased reopening Wednesday, the Ford’s Theatre Society and the National Park Service announced Friday.

The Christopher Columbus Memorial Fountain that fronts Union Station is broken. Not only because its plumbing stopped functioning years ago, or because it has been in disrepair since then — but also because its wretched symbolism is being…

Over the summer, the planned D.C. streetcar extension into Ward 7 nearly lost funding. An initiative to defund the project was defeated in an 8-to-5 vote in the D.C. Council. With one of the streetcar’s supporters vacating his council seat…

It had been six months since her last volunteer shift educating D.C. residents on the importance of filling out the 2020 Census and Arnesia Davis had yet to complete it herself.

Victorine Mbazang proudly stands in a sea of green fruit and vegetable plants at her plot at Blair Road Community Garden in Northwest Washington’s Manor Park.

Fabian Tinsley as an inmate at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, N.C., nearing the end of his sentence for armed kidnapping and assault.

Happy Thursday. A group of parents and students today protested the sudden and unexplained dismissal of the principal of prestigious high school School Without Walls.

The sudden firing of a popular D.C. principal one month before the District’s schools are planning to reopen has galvanized not just the principal's own community, but schools across the District. From Northwest to Southeast, parents and…

Only one thing has united D.C. residents as much as a national trophy from the Nats, Mystics or Caps.

Tedi, the horse, was upset. He was a 10-year veteran of the U.S. Park Police mounted unit. He had spent a decade of hot summer days on the Mall, cold winters on the streets, and time in the shabby stables off Independence Avenue.

The average number of new daily coronavirus infections across the greater Washington region reached a 19-day high Thursday as local health officials sent an open letter urging people connected to a White House outbreak to get tested.

This year marked a decade since the Capital Bikeshare program first offered its services as a convenient and affordable means of transportation for biking enthusiasts, urban professionals and others eager to avoid expensive parking tickets…

COVID-19 Forces City Leaders to Ponder Cuts, Tax Hikes

The upcoming election counts among one of the most consequential in recent history for many reasons but perhaps none more important than it being the first time that District residents currently incarcerated in the Federal Bureau of…

The D.C. Council voted unanimously Sept. 22 to place a one-year moratorium on applications for certificates of assurance, signaling a desire to re-examine the issue of rent control in the District.

The D.C. Council on Oct. 6 voted unanimously in a second and final vote to approve legislation to provide nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ seniors and seniors with HIV who reside in long-term care facilities in the District.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In an extraordinary step, the Washington, D.C., Department of Health has released an open letter appealing to all White House staff and anyone who attended a Sept. 26 event in the Rose Garden to seek medical advice and…

Melissa Lavasani took “microdoses” of illegal psychedelic mushrooms to recover from postpartum depression in 2018. After her condition improved, she wanted others to have access to the treatment, working for months to get a ballot…

Not many universities can boast that they developed their own Covid-19 test or are regularly screening thousands of on-campus staff and students, but George Washington University says it is doing both.