2020

For more than seven decades, (202) has been D.C.’s sole area code. But by the end of 2022, the city will have a new one: (771).

The sounds of gunfire ringing through her Southeast D.C. neighborhood had always kept Neta Vaught away from firearms. To her, guns symbolized the violence that the mother of three worked so hard to shield her family from — the violence…

Edwina Williams, a retired police detective in her late 50s, thinks it’s downright ridiculous that D.C. isn’t a state.

The D.C. Council will vote Tuesday on a package of sweeping road-safety measures aimed at cutting the growing number of traffic injuries and fatalities in the nation's capital.

A former D.C. government administrator has been fined $2,500 by an ethics board for his involvement in legislating a multimillion dollar tax break for Howard University, where he had been seeking employment.

D.C. ethics officials did not find any evidence that former City Administrator Rashad Young acted improperly in securing a new job at Howard University, they said in a public settlement released Monday. The District’s Board of Ethics and…

Happy Monday. DC officials debuted a new dashboard and new metrics today on the District's coronavirus web portal, but the message from the Health Department remains the same: The District isn't meeting enough of the thresholds to advance…

A former high-ranking D.C. government official has been fined $2,500 by the city ethics board for his involvement in shaping a $225 million tax break for Howard University the same day he discussed taking a job at the university.

The D.C. restaurant industry celebrated its chef and restaurateurs Sunday evening at the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington's RAMMY Awards, held for the first time in a virtual format.

When Penn Quarter’s Cuba Libre Restaurant & Rum Bar reopened in June, CEO Barry Gutin says that business in the neighborhood was slow.

Nothing brightens a woman’s face as much as a fresh dab of lipstick. And when those lips are five feet wide, the effect is stunning.

Peer into a backyard in Columbia Heights and a quartet plays. Walk down the waterfront on the Wharf and a masked instructor stretches into downward-facing dog. Dine on 17th Street NW and massage chairs sprawl across turf grass.

Washington plans to open five voting “supercenters” across the city to safely process large numbers of voters in the upcoming election. But none will be in Wards 7 and 8, which saw some of the worst lines during the June primary and where…

Even though the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum is still closed, there’s another way to see a pantheon of vintage aircraft this week.

Three months after D.C. entered the second phase of coronavirus restrictions, the city’s top public health official introduced new criteria Monday for determining when to lift additional restrictions and enter Phase 3.

But the cafe at the American Indian museum will keep its doors shut.

Ward 5 resident Ronnie Webb applied for about 100 entry-level jobs through the United States Department of Agriculture when he graduated with a Bachelor’s of Agricultural Business in 2011. But he didn’t get one call for an interview.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and National Museum of the American Indian will reopen to the public Friday.