2020

Last summer, the DC Black Business Task Force called for a study to determine whether the government has been meeting its goals regarding awarding contracts to Black-, minority- and women-owned businesses, as well as to identify potential…

In their appeal to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) for an expansion of anti-violence resources, a collective of youth from city public and public charter schools have relied on their experiences and memories of friends who lost their lives as…

The annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Walk and Parade in D.C. on Monday exceeded expectations as the son of the slain civil rights icon and his family walked through Southeast with Mayor Muriel Bowser and a joyful procession of…

D.C. officials see Starbucks’ decision to open its first D.C. drive-thru shop at Skyland Town Center — and another location in Anacostia — as clear evidence that their efforts to push retailers east of the Anacostia are bearing fruit.

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson said Wednesday that he is “absolutely not” satisfied with the District’s top procurement officer’s reasons for the increase in late contracts requiring retroactive approval by the council.

If you worked at the District Building in 1980, you may have paused one day, lost in thought, as the elevator doors opened, only to look up and see that a woman seated at a table had just pointed a camera at you and pressed the shutter…

The United States Conference of Mayors’ Winter Meeting is taking place in DC this year, and presidential candidate and former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg spoke at the event Wednesday. After telling the crowd “The truth is, I’m hoping to…

Hundreds of mayors convened in the nation’s capital on Wednesday to address the challenges facing their communities, with the issue of gun violence top of mind.

Universities are often maligned as ivory towers, places far removed from the practical realities of daily life. But for one group of graduate students at Georgetown University, a class project has turned into a tool D.C. will use to better…

Plans to extend the DC Streetcar to Georgetown have been effectively scrapped.

D.C.'s attorney general is bringing The Trump Organization to court again over payments to its D.C. hotel, this time involving President Donald Trump's inaugural committtee.

In less than two months, the Supreme Court will hear its first abortion rights case since the confirmation of Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh. This case could be a major step in chipping away the protections of Roe v. Wade…

The news that a bobcat has been spotted in Washington inspires hope. The bobcat was photographed at night a few weeks ago while passing by a camera trap that had been set up to document the overabundance of feral house cats in the…

Detrice Belt moved into Barry Farm Dwellings — a public housing complex in Southeast Washington — in the late '90s, when she was in junior high. In 2007, she had a baby girl, and the townhouse she grew up in with her mother, brother and…

Maurice Queen, who joined DC’s Department of Public Works in 1969, is the city’s longest-serving trash collector. But not for long: The 72-year-old District native plans to retire in January.

One morning this past September, Gerald Smith Jr., the principal at St. Thomas More Catholic Academy in Washington, D.C., added some more brightly colored college pennants on a clothesline decorating a wall along the school’s main hallway.…

Howard University has landed its largest financial gift in its 153-year history, and it will use it to expand its program for science and technology scholars.

The Karsh Family Foundation, established by Oaktree Capital Management co-founder Bruce Karsh and his wife Martha Karsh, has donated $10 million to Howard University to endow its STEM program.

Don’t expect to see any earth moving at the McMillan Sand Filtration Plant anytime soon — a D.C. court has barred any demolition on the site for the foreseeable future in yet another, perhaps predictable, setback for the development.