2020

“I was never particularly interested in cemeteries,” Grace Bateman said as we stood amidst the gravestones of Holy Rood, a burial ground that sits on the cusp of Georgetown and Glover Park.

Residents of a Northeast D.C. neighborhood are proposing that a vacant former slaughterhouse be designated historic in a bid that could prevent a planned halfway house from opening.

Kristen Sheldon’s bedroom looks like a Caribbean resort: brilliant blue walls, white furniture, lots of plants. It’s part of her strategy for dealing with seasonal depression.

Throughout the spring, summer, and fall, many of the region’s public COVID-19 testing sites were outside. Besides the occasional downpour and “heat exposure,” the weather has generally cooperated.

Median single-family home sales in DC have surpassed $1 million for the first time.

As the city waits with bated breath for the DC Council's potential passage of a revised Comprehensive Plan, the Office of Planning (OP) is launching a more micro-level effort.

The D.C. Council gave initial approval to raise the re-sentencing eligibility age from 17 to 24.

After the discovery of a botched firearms analysis at the D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences led federal prosecutors to review ballistics evidence in dozens of other open cases, the director of the lab told WTOP that her department runs…

“Tone deaf.” “Unfit.” “A poster child for the bad cop.” This is how some residents of Prince William County described their incoming police chief, the current head of Metropolitan Police Department Peter Newsham.

To the FBI, Charles “Rags” Warring was a bootlegger and a numbers runner. To the IRS, he was a tax cheat who had the audacity to claim as deductions the bribes he paid to District cops. To The Washington Post, he was the “genial…

Happy December. The DC Council gave initial approval to an array of bills on Tuesday, including one that would allow prisoners who committed crimes before the age of 25 to seek early release.

One of many bills the D.C. Council voted on this week will take a new look at poverty in the District.

From coast to coast, transit agencies are planning for layoffs and pared-down service as the coronavirus pandemic decimates budgets and a federal stimulus package remains stalled in Congress.

D.C.-area officials say the next federal coronavirus relief bill must include public transportation funds to help bail out Metro from a budget deficit of nearly $495 million for operations next year.

The D.C. Council unanimously voted to approve an omnibus criminal justice reform bill on Tuesday, marking another step toward possible early release for some incarcerated D.C. residents.

The D.C. Council is already planning for life after the COVID-19 pandemic.