2020

D.C. is joining four other states in giving certain law school graduates a pass on taking the bar exam to practice law because of COVID-19.

A group of D.C. lawmakers is demanding Mayor Muriel Bowser release more information about how D.C. Public Schools will keep students and teachers safe if campuses open for in-person learning in November.

Metro board members representing the District and Maryland questioned the agency’s commitment to transit equity Thursday after learning it skipped doing a full analysis on how emergency budget cuts would impact low-income and minority…

Dorea Batté could not avoid the unwanted text messages and phone calls from a law school classmate at George Washington University. She tried blocking the man’s phone number, but he reached her using different numbers.

Mayor Muriel Bowser and the District Department of Transportation announced seven potential routes for the DC Circulator bus in Ward 7, and asked transit riders to give their opinions.

By Broad Potomac’s Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of Our Nation’s Capital comes out Oct. 6 from the University of Virginia Press.

They talked of Deon Kay wanting to explore the world, about his prowess on the football field and basketball court, about how the young man “was creating plans for his future.”

Bookworms, behold: D.C.’s central library reopened its doors Thursday after a three-and-a-half year, $211 million modernization.

The growls and whines of World War II-era planes were loud and the flying precise as dozens of planes ranging in size from one-seaters to a restored DC-3 airliner Miss Virginia did a dress rehearsal for Friday’s Arsenal of Democracy…

Washington City Paper will temporarily reduce its print publication schedule to one edition per month. In an announcement Thursday, the alt-weekly cited a major drop in ad and event revenue in the wake of the pandemic.

The renovation and remodeling of the Whole Foods Market in Glover Park, which has been closed for more than three years due to a legal battle between the grocer and its landlord, is set to start this fall, according to the project's…

Dozens of protesters marched along the street in front of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s home in D.C.’s Stanton Park neighborhood early Thursday morning.

Roller skating has been ingrained in Black communities for decades.

The D.C. Council unanimously voted in a Sept. 22 session that landlords cannot issue notices telling tenants to vacate their units until the current eviction moratorium ends.

Alexa Jade Southwick was picking up free lunch from the D.C. Downtown Day Services Center last Friday when she saw a voter registration tent right by the door. Southwick is experiencing homelessness and recently arrived in the District by…

Residents of Washington, D.C., have been advocating for more representation for generations. But the push for full statehood is now getting more attention than ever before, in part due to the diligent work of a new generation of activists.…

After six months of reinvention, some pivots are proving more successful than others in D.C.