2020

The D.C. Council on Tuesday, Dec. 15, voted unanimously to give final approval of a bill that bans the use of the so-called gay and transgender panic defense in criminal trials.

As more community-based organizations and mutual aid networks pop up across D.C, one group continues the struggle for housing justice they began two years ago.

On the evening before the first possible snowstorm of winter 2020, Pat Collins was clear-eyed about the likelihood that he would be deploying his most famous journalistic accessory.

Five of the 110 staff members who will be vaccinated this week at Children’s National Hospital received the first of two shots on Wednesday.

The move means Metro is suspending routes with hilly terrain.

The District’s eviction moratorium, designed to last through the duration of the coronavirus pandemic, now looks to be in jeopardy.

D.C. lawmakers have quietly advanced a plan to break up one of the city’s largest agencies, the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, lining up a massive shift in everything from housing and construction inspections to business…

When D.C. law firm Williams & Connolly LLP moves into its new headquarters at The Wharf in 2022, it will be anchoring a pair of stunning buildings on Maine Avenue Southwest.

Maryland has agreed to provide D.C. with an additional 8,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses, according to a Maryland Health Department letter addressed to DC Health and initially reported by the Washington City Paper.

If you had to identify clusters of coronavirus cases without testing people, what would you look at? Discarded face masks? Air particles? The walls of outdoor restaurant bubbles?

The D.C. Council voted on Dec. 15 to give the Mayor authority to extend the end date for the pandemic-related state of emergency from Dec. 31 to March 31, 2021, which in turn would extend the city’s eviction moratorium. While this…

A block away from the historic Cotton Annex, itself in line for a residential retrofit, another old Southwest property is getting a residential redo.

With signs and chants, dozens of protestors demonstrated their disapproval of Prince William County’s hiring of D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham to lead the county force on Tuesday afternoon.

The D.C. government violated procurement laws when it awarded three of its largest contracts this summer — totaling $1.5 billion for three companies to manage health care for Medicaid recipients, a D.C. Contract Appeals Board judge ruled. …

John A. Donnelly Sr. is the new chief of D.C. Fire and EMS.

Commuting to her overnight shift as a part-time security guard has been an ordeal for 74-year-old Judith Howell, who says she “babysits an office building” in downtown Washington at a time when most of the city sleeps.

Legislation approved Tuesday by the D.C. Council sets the table for a new layer of accountability for the Metro Transit Police Department, which handles incidents on the transit system.

The D.C. Council has approved legislation that will create a civilian complaint board for the Metro Transit Police Department, once identical legislation is approved in Maryland and Virginia.

D.C. police said they fired pepper spray in a confrontation with activists outside a cellblock where a group gathered Monday evening to greet people being freed from detention after arrests during weekend demonstrations in downtown…

Happy Tuesday. Criminal justice reforms and pandemic responses once again proved a focal point for the council's legislative actions Tuesday as the sun set on the last legislative meeting of Council Period 23.