2020

D.C. public housing complexes must spend more than $3 million on new security cameras, better lighting and violence prevention programs as part of a negotiated settlement in a lawsuit brought against the agency by D.C. Attorney General…

Staff at D.C.’s only psychiatric hospital restrained patients 149 times and secluded patients 55 times within the first three months of 2020.

S.C. Herman & Associates has scrapped its plans to find replacement tenants for a nearly 50-year-old office building across from Fannie Mae's new downtown D.C. headquarters and is instead looking to sell the 12-story building at 1125…

Kevin Onyona’s Kenyan restaurant opened downtown ten days before indoor dining was shut down.

A mental health advocacy group this week said the city-owned psychiatric hospital in Southeast Washington has increased its use of restraint and seclusion on patients despite regulations designed to limit such interventions.

"This was one of the toughest decisions we’ve had to make, and we believe it’s the right one."

It wasn’t always share plates and fried-chicken sandwiches.

The Office of the D.C. Auditor is investigating a deadly shooting involving a police officer earlier this month in Southeast.

A proposed bill in DC intended to protect new condo owners from defects may have unintended consequences, according to local developers.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine has reached an agreement with the city’s housing authority over a June lawsuit concerning conditions at 10 of its properties, alleging the agency has been “refusing to address systematic…

This is expected to be an election season like none other in D.C.’s history. With the COVID-19 pandemic still a reality, D.C. is changing how it hopes residents will vote. There will be fewer (but bigger) polling places on Election Day.…

An annual holiday tradition in the nation’s capital is coming to a (temporary) end.

The residential development pipeline northeast of North Capitol Street and Rhode Island Avenue, spanning from Brookland to Langdon, remains active despite delays and legal wrangling. Some projects, like 901 Monroe Street NE, are still…

Ward 8 native Mallory “Rocky” Simpson works at a fitness and health club in Maryland, and he’s heard from a lot of people who tell him they can’t currently afford a gym membership.

Switching to electric vehicles would save lives, time and money, and the D.C. area would be one of the prime beneficiaries, a new study finds.

Salvadorans in the D.C. region expressed alarm and frustration Tuesday after a federal appeals court ruled the Trump Administration could end their protected immigration status in the U.S.

The sky in the D.C. region has had an eerie glow this week, the sun at times an orange orb glowing weakly through a layer of haze. That haze is smoke from wildfires raging some 2,500 miles away, according to the National Weather Service.