2020

It was an inauspicious start to an election season: Only days after the D.C. Board of Elections announced in late March that it would try and conduct a majority of the June 2 primary by mail, a number of staff members developed COVID-19…

Voters encountered long lines and the National Guard while they waited to vote on an abnormal Election Day.

If you thought the first pandemic-induced lockdown was painful, wait until you see the second one.

The District is making free personal protective equipment starter kits available to D.C. businesses, and the District’s Business Improvement Districts are distributing them.

Incumbent Brandon Todd appears to have lost the Democratic primary for the Ward 4 seat on D.C. Council, with Janeese Lewis George holding more than 54% of the vote, according to the unofficial results of Tuesday's elections. Jack Evans…

Janeese Lewis George, a left-leaning lawyer who used to work for D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D), has defeated incumbent Ward 4 Council member Brandon T. Todd in the Democratic primary, while attorney Brooke Pinto leads a close…

After an election night marked by wait times stretching past four or five hours at polling sites, Janeese Lewis George appears to have bested incumbent Brandon Todd in Ward 4 in the Democratic primary, while Brooke Pinto holds an extremely…

More than half the 1,300 inmates at the D.C. Jail have been tested for COVID-19, with 304 having been tested on a single day in late May as corrections officials have continued battling a simmering outbreak in the jail.

A Georgetown University report released Tuesday says a “legacy of inequality” is partly to blame for black District residents living several years less than white residents and for a higher rate of African American deaths attributed to the…

As police aggressively sought to disperse protesters on Monday night, at least two helicopters flew unusually close to the ground, in what aviators called a “show of force.” Onlookers noticed one of those helicopters had Red Cross…

Just before 9 p.m. on Tuesday night, the D.C. National Guard made its first original tweet since early March, asserting that its Commanding General, Maj. Gen. William J. Walker, will investigate why its helicopters were used to suppress…

Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House, has been the local epicenter of the last five days of protests in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis police custody last week.

WUSA9's Nathan Baca experienced first hand what was used when U.S. Park Police cleared Lafayette Square amid protests over George Floyd's death.

As many as 2,000 demonstrators descended on Washington on Tuesday, the largest and most boisterous crowd to gather in the nation’s capital during five straight days of protests over George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis police custody.

The owner of a Dupont Circle hotel is bringing a lawsuit against a Florida private school whose student stayed at the property in March.

As federal and military authorities swarm D.C. streets, Mayor Muriel Bowser keeps calling their actions things like “inappropriate,” “unnecessary,” and “appalling.” That sounds like somebody irritated over a dropped napkin at a dinner…

On the battlefield, the roar of helicopter blades paired with a Red Cross is salvation for wounded troops and civilians.

To supplement the presence of local and federal police and the D.C. National Guard, Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper asked state National Guards to send in some of their troops, and hundreds were on their way or already here by Tuesday.