2020

D.C. is requiring people making travel into Washington from more than half the United States to self-quarantine because of new surges in Covid-19 cases.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is ordering travelers into Washington from over half the country to self-quarantine due to a widespread escalation in new coronavirus cases.

The whipping post. The lynching tree. The wagon wheel. They were the stories of slavery, an inheritance of fear and dread, passed down from father to son.

Valerie Kindt wants to return to work full time. Kindt, the mother of a rising third-grade son, scaled back her hours to part time at an international nonprofit organization in April so she could guide her son through his daily four hours…

Cat videos have gloriously helped us pass the time ever since YouTube was invented.

Just five days after health officials announced the first case of Covid-19 in the D.C. area, Martha’s Table announced a major change to its strategy for promoting economic and food security among D.C. residents. We were going to give…

Like their public school counterparts, D.C.-area private schools are weighing safety and students’ needs in their reopening plans amid the pandemic. But some are finding the logistics less cumbersome, given their smaller classes and fewer…

Mike D'Angelo, the uncle of a 10-year-old shot and killed in D.C. in 2018, began walking to Philadelphia Sunday to honor her and raise awareness about kids killed by gun violence.

July 26 marked the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and through the decades, the Smithsonian museums have made some major changes to create a more inclusive space.

Valerie Kindt wants to return to work full time. Kindt, the mother of a rising third-grade son, scaled back her hours to part time at an international nonprofit organization in April so she could guide her son through his daily four hours…

In mid-March, as the pandemic was just beginning, Red Hook Lobster Pound owner Doug Povich spent $1,000 to service one of his food trucks.

WASHINGTON — Crowds of people gathered at Columbia Heights Civic Plaza on Saturday to continue to call on D.C. leaders to cancel rent during the pandemic. D.C. Tenants Union organized the gathering, which featured speakers addressing…

A woman has died after she was struck by a police car in Southeast D.C. according to police.

A police officer responding to a call for assistance struck and killed a female pedestrian in Southeast on Friday night, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

In early June, an anonymous group began spreading online flyers for a March on Washington 2020, slated for Aug. 28, to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech and accompanying march that took place 57 summers…

A former employee in Howard University’s finance office pled guilty to defrauding the college of more than $100,000 in financial aid.

Sitting in her car, Ivonne Peterson pressed her foot on the gas pedal to the sound of cheers and the sight of Jimmy Moreland, a cornerback with her beloved Washington Football Team, holding a box of fresh produce in his hands.

To see museums in the same way as Beth Ziebarth requires stepping out of what you know.

More than three miles of travel or parking lanes in the District will be turned into bus-only lanes this summer — including the first such transit lane east of the Anacostia River — in what is the latest set of road projects spurred by the…