2020

In an unusual Thursday session, the D.C. Council voted to eliminate the proposed advertising tax it endorsed two weeks ago after several individuals and news organizations voiced their opposition.

The D.C. Council on Thursday voted 11 to 2 to remove from the city’s Fiscal Year 2021 budget a proposed 3 percent sales tax on advertising that a coalition of community newspapers, including the Washington Blade and the D.C. lesbian of…

Twenty residents have picked up petitions to qualify for the D.C. Council’s citywide independent position in the General Election as of July 17 and with the exception of three male candidates, Ed Lazere, Rick Murphree and Will Merrifield,…

A former Ward 8 landlord will pay a total of $3.5 million to tenants and the District to settle a lawsuit over unsafe housing conditions and inadequate security, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced last Wednesday.

An interview with one of DC's 300 investigators.

After months of back and forth with the mayor, controversial additions and more contentious cuts, the D.C. Council approved a $8.5 billion budget for fiscal year 2021 Thursday night.

A former top director of Howard University’s bursar’s office pleaded guilty Friday to stealing nearly $140,000 from the university.

Netflix announced on Friday it will release a documentary series featuring a close-knit group of Deaf students coming-of-age at Gallaudet University. “Deaf U” will have eight episodes that are about 20 minutes long each, according to…

The Smithsonian National Zoo reopened its gates to the public Friday for the first time since closing at the start of the pandemic.

Aundrea Wilcox and her husband, Matt, packed up their three kids and the double stroller and the umbrellas, jumped in the car and in the rain drove 60 miles from their home in Fredericksburg to be at the National Zoo when it reopened…

The city’s Alcohol Beverage Regulation Administration on Wednesday released a list of restaurants cited for violating the agency’s Phase Two reopening orders that went into effect on June 22. ABRA has inspected more than 150 establishments…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has proposed a bill that would require at least 80 polling places be open for the November election, though she says she would rather see the D.C. Board of Elections open all 144 polling places that are used during…

A former associate director at Howard University plead guilty on Friday to defrauding the school of more than $100,000.

The Kennedy Center laid off 64 employees and shed an additional 47 vacant positions on Friday, representing nearly 30 percent of its administrative staff. The cuts came a day after officials unveiled a performance schedule that will be…

TGIF. Beginning next Monday, DC will require people coming from "high-risk areas" to self-quarantine for 14 days, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced today. While the city hasn't released a list of places under the order — Maryland and Virginia…

A new residential development is planned just off DC's Starburst Plaza.

Anyone who engages in non-essential travel to one of the listed areas will have to quarantine for 14 days

People coming into D.C. from areas with high risk of Covid-19 infection will be required to self-quarantine for 14 days, according to a new order issued Friday by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.

The National Zoo reopened Friday, one of two Smithsonian institutions to begin welcoming visitors again since the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown that began in March. Some things have changed, though.

Beginning on Monday, July 27, people traveling into D.C. from what the city is calling “high-risk areas” will be required to self-quarantine for 14 days.