2020

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception will reopen Monday after being closed for over three months due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Basilica announced in a release.

After three months off, D.C. residents, apparently, are ready to hit the gym.

Father’s Day has taken on a new meaning for Corey Gibson and his 8-year-old son AJ of Southeast D.C.

An annual report on homelessness in the D.C. metropolitan area released on June 10 shows that the number of homeless people fell in 2020 for the fifth consecutive year. But the rate at which D.C. has reduced homelessness continues to…

Determined to challenge racial stereotypes, scores of fathers gathered Sunday morning with their children, other relatives and friends at the National Museum of African American History and Culture for a walk to celebrate black fatherhood…

His symptoms included a fever, chills, muscle and body aches and weakness.

A D.C. teacher was honored for his work this past school year with a $10,000 award presented over the weekend. Alejandro Diasgranados, who teachers 4th and 5th graders at Aiton Elementary School in Northeast D.C., became one of 51 teachers…

The District has hit an unfortunate milestone — more than 10,000 residents have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began in March.

President Trump took aim at D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser during his rally in Tulsa Saturday night, the latest development in an ongoing public feud between them.

As locals and visitors marked Juneteenth with celebrations, demonstrations, and service across the region on Friday, the evening ended with a bang — a “thunk,” really — as a group of protesters tossed ropes and chains around the Albert…

Transit systems in the Washington suburbs are beginning to ramp up service that was reduced or canceled when the region locked down because of the coronavirus pandemic.

D.C. firefighters and police officers on Saturday rescued eight adults and four children who became trapped on rocks in the Potomac River and were cut off from shore by rapidly rising waters in a sudden rainstorm.

Three groups of people fishing and picnicking escaped a treacherous situation on the Potomac River with help from D.C. Fire and EMS, and police, when surging waters cut them off from the safety of shore on Saturday afternoon.

FreshFarm announced the inclusion of four new Dupont vendors.

Mayor Muriel Bowser made the call yesterday: with 15 days of decline in the community spread metric—one more than the goal—the city would make the move to Phase Two of its reopening plan on Monday.

Rolls of thunder and the tap-tap-tap of intermittent rain provided the soundtrack for protests in Washington on Saturday, the fourth week of demonstrations in the District against racial inequality and the systemic mistreatment of black…

"There's no more sweeping these harsh realities under the rug, putting on Band-Aids over the scars. It's time we held everyone accountable."

Cheering demonstrators jumped up and down as the 11-foot (3.4-meter) statue of Albert Pike — wrapped with chains — wobbled on its high granite pedestal before falling backward, landing in a pile of dust. Protesters then set a bonfire and…

By Saturday morning, there was little left but a graffiti-covered pedestal at the site of the only outdoor Confederate statue in the nation’s capital.

For a period in the early 1990s and again in the wake of white supremacist violence in Charlottesvile in 2017, activists and city officials alike called for the removal of a statue of a Confederate general that stands in Judiciary Square.…