August 2020

New signs emerged Monday suggesting that giant panda Mei Xiang is bearing a healthy fetus, as an ultrasound showed “exciting movements,” according to the National Zoo.

The Atlanta export is helmed by a collection of José Andrés alums.

Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, taxi trips are down 90% and Uber and Lyft rides are down about 80% in D.C., according to District statistics.

D.C.’s health director said Monday indoor dining remains a “high-risk” endeavor, but the city is seeing more prevalent community spread of Covid-19 in other activities, and at this point does not plan to roll back operations at…

Conrad Washington, D.C. will reopen Friday with a series of measures in place to limit contact between guests and staff at the luxury property.

For years, local officials and residents have raised alarms over mishandled dispatches by the District’s Office of Unified Communications, which handles the city’s 911 calls. A recent error during a water-rescue operation in the Potomac…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser enjoyed about two minutes in the national spotlight Monday, when she introduced family members of George Floyd in a prerecorded speech that aired during the Democratic National Convention. But reception was chilly…

Dionte Coley was waiting for the bus near Black Lives Matter Plaza on Tuesday, June 23, when he says police approached him. Without warning, Coley says, the officers started aggressively pushing him and others who were nearby, clearing…

The coronavirus’s late-winter attack on the national capital region came from multiple, separate introductions, and the pathogen quickly spread among people who had not traveled outside the region recently or had known contact with…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants the city council to move forward with its second vote next month to approve funding for a new hospital at the center of an ethics investigation.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser spoke on night one of the Democratic National Convention on why she created Black Lives Matter Plaza and backs the Biden/Harris ticket.

The trailblazer is also the first single mother in that role.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said that she has several concerns about the upcoming general election, emphasizing worries about how inefficient the U.S. Postal Service could be in delivering mail-in ballots.

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday lambasted President Trump for the “photo op” near historic St. John’s Church on June 1 after law enforcement had cleared the area of protesters.

Prosecutors in D.C. have declined to bring charges against most of the 41 people arrested in a disturbance in Adams Morgan last week that sparked a large police response and which authorities had characterized as a riot.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Zookeepers at Washington’s National Zoo are on furry black-and-white baby watch after concluding that venerable giant panda matriarch Mei Ziang is pregnant and could give birth this week. It’s a welcome bit of good news…

Sunday was supposed to be the day Richard Bangura left for Temple University, embarking on studies he hoped would lead to a law degree.

Analysis of contact tracing cases in the District shows many new infections never encountered someone with symptoms.