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Renée Fleming and Vanessa Williams sang together Saturday night under the roof of the Kennedy Center Opera House — the first indoor musical event at the nation’s performing arts showplace since the March 13 shutdown due to covid-19…

D.C. is launching a pilot program that will bring live indoor entertainment back to the District in a controlled manner for the month of October, as the city seeks to create opportunities for hard-hit performance venues to make some…

Complainant Lauren Wolfe plans to appeal.

In July, D.C. lawmakers voted to allow felons to vote while in prison, joining only Maine and Vermont in expanding the franchise so widely to those who are incarcerated.

Coronavirus cases dropped to their lowest level since mid-July in the greater Washington region last week, but keep your mask on.

D.C.'s Mayor Bowser is offering a monthlong pilot program to six venues to offer restricted indoor live performances.

After a chaotic spring, uncertain summer and a rocky start to the fall semester, universities in the D.C. area have found varying levels of stability.

When Troy Burner was a teenager in the late 1980s, he worked as a radiology aide at George Washington University Hospital. He also occasionally peddled crack cocaine on D.C.’s streets.

The movement to rename schools, including Woodrow Wilson High School in Northwest Washington, has been growing recently. In June, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said she reluctantly supports changing the name.

The economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated the financial problems of retailers in the commercial district around the Friendship Heights Metro station, reigniting appeals for a major revival of what was once a…

Metro announced it has opened a public comment period so riders can voice their feelings about service cuts, reduced hours, furloughed staff and other reductions as federal funding for the transit service runs out.

President Donald Trump has nominated federal appeals judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacancy left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The move to fill the seat before the November election has been widely rejected by Democrats, including…

As D.C. Public Schools appears to be moving forward with a plan to bring back some form of in-person learning in November, the union which represents school administrators is expressing concerns it has about the plan.

A 13-year-old girl sits in her home on the Northwest side of the nation’s capital, taps on her screen to get to class — and feels relieved.

Every third Saturday in September, the environmental group Ocean Conservancy organizes a cleanup event at D.C.’s Kingman Island Park on the Anacostia River.

Patrons of the arts may be able to enjoy concerts and performances in the District sooner than expected. Six D.C. venues will begin hosting live entertainment through October as a part of a pilot program announced by Mayor Muriel Bowser on…

Starting the first week in October, ballots for the Nov. 3 general election will be mailed to all registered voters in D.C. The presidential election has dominated attention, but the ballots will also include contests for important local…

As coronavirus cases in the Washington region hit their lowest levels in months, area school systems are inching toward reopening and normalcy — pledging to gradually usher students back into classrooms, and onto sports fields, over the…

The creation of Rock Creek Park involved a rogue cartographer and a missed coffee break. Yet the District of Columbia’s signature oasis — created as America’s fourth national park — was never supposed to exist.

As part of its Phase Two entertainment plans, D.C. is going to allow live music at six venues in a pilot program.