2020

D.C. Public Schools will be fully remote until Nov. 6, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Thursday, reversing an earlier decision to hold both virtual and in-person classes. The term is scheduled to begin Aug. 31.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Thursday that schools in the nation’s capital would start the 2020-2021 academic year all-virtual, a scenario that the city’s leaders had been trying to avoid.

Earlier this month, D.C.’s Department of Health Care Finance announced plans to move forward with sweeping changes to the city’s Medicaid program, which provides health care coverage to more than 275,000 District residents, including many…

Black women in the D.C. earn just 51 cents for every dollar a white man makes, according to a new analysis from the National Women’s Law Center.

The plaza barriers won't go down until August 31. Fencing around Lafayette Square will remain in place until at least July 31.

Since April, we have been sounding the alarm that music venues such as the 9:30 Club and the Anthem cannot survive the novel coronavirus shutdown without federal assistance.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday that city is changing its coronavirus positivity rate benchmark for entering its next phase of reopening.

"It feels good not to go home and want to fall through the door. Eventually, the party’s gotta be over."

Three college-bound D.C. high school seniors have been selected as prestigious Milken Scholars this year, each earning $10,000 cash and a lifetime of support with their careers.

Happy Wednesday. A day after DC landed onto the New York region's quarantine list for visitors, Mayor Muriel Bowser urged District residents to avoid unnecessary travel — particularly to 27 high-risk states — and adjusted a key measure…

The second phase of a major development in historic Anacostia is working to break ground quickly to accommodate the timeline of a D.C. agency that will be its largest tenant.

Georgetown University will begin the school year online, the campus’s president announced Wednesday, rescinding previous plans to conduct courses online and in-person this fall.

Repeatedly telling a spokesperson for a D.C. councilmember how he thought she looked in a dress. Sending suggestive, late-night messages to young colleagues. Inviting a news assistant to a networking event, only to bring her to one-on-one…

The protest chants outside the Garfield Senior apartments in mid-July were a twist on the “Black lives matter” chants that have echoed across D.C. in recent months. The crowd of about 30 residents, gathered for a car caravan through Ward…

D.C. has changed a key metric for moving into Phase Three of its reopening plan.

But the mayor recommends businesses call the police if they're afraid of confronting customers about masks.

A traveling exhibit from the International Spy Museum has been pulled after board members of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Illinois raised concerns with Ku Klux Klan robes on display, among other issues.

As Congress formulates its next coronavirus relief package, transit agencies across the country say they need federal help to survive. Metro is in better shape than most, but says the system will need funding to avoid a financial crisis…

When the Northeast Library abruptly closed July 15 for a “deep cleaning,” some residents and D.C. Public Library employees started wondering why.