2020

Mayor Muriel Bowser is forcefully refuting President Donald Trump’s accusation that she declined to allow D.C. police officers to respond to intense protests outside the White House over the death of George Floyd on Saturday night.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine asked those taking part in his office’s Cure the Streets violence disruption program to observe a moment of silence for the family of George Floyd, a black man who died while being arrested by a white…

Protesters in D.C. expressing their anger over George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer converged on the streets around the White House Friday night, at times clashing with Secret Service officials.

Since mid-March, Giant Food has offered its store employees a 10% bump in weekly pay in recognition of their work on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. Despite calls from the union representing Giant employees in the D.C. region,…

Protests in D.C. over the killing of George Floyd continued in the early hours of Saturday morning with a tense standoff between protesters and police outside of the White House.

Martha Wilson was not your average church lady.

On Tuesday, 11-year-old Taj Young was very surprised to see all four of his 5th-grade teachers from Murch Elementary School in Northwest D.C. on his front lawn.

Several hundred people gathered outside the White House in two successive tense and confrontational demonstrations occurring hours apart on Friday, both of them protesting the death of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police…

TGIF. As the District took its initial steps today toward reopening, Mayor Muriel Bowser used the occasion to announce initiatives that she says will "reimagine roads and public space."

Hundreds of demonstrators moved through D.C. Friday night, marching, chanting, holding a vigil, and, at one point, blocking highway traffic. They join a nationwide outpouring of rage and grief over the death of George Floyd, a black man…

Late May brought an expected resurgence in gun violence and tragedy to D.C. First, there was the shooting of a 71-year-old grandmother, and then a 4-year-old girl, both in communities east of the Anacostia River, where residents feel the…

The District’s sports betting website is now active and accepting bets. It’s happening at a time when live sports are few and far between all over the world, but it’s now happening.

In the early days of Brandon Todd’s first D.C. Council campaign, James Salt was among the volunteers dispatched to knock on doors and introduce the first-time candidate to Ward 4 residents.

YaVonne Boyd, a consultant who lives in Columbia Heights, likes to vote in person. But after her husband had a case of the flu earlier this year that turned into bronchitis, they decided to play it safe. “I actually enjoy going in to vote,…

Remember when President Trump suggested a month ago that “we hit the body” with UV light to kill the coronavirus?

The forced distancing required by the coronavirus prompted several cities to quickly close some public roads to make room so cooped-up residents anxious to get outside for exercise could do so safely.

Beneath a gray sky morning, the nearly 4 million people of Washington and its Northern Virginia suburbs woke up Friday in communities where, for the first time in 60 days, they were not ordered to stay home — though many did anyway.

Two years after the federal government paved the way for legal sports betting, a retail sportsbook is preparing to open three blocks from the U.S. Capitol.

D.C. will see some roadway reform as the city prepares to reopen after nearly two months of a stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus.