2020

The District is closer to having a dedicated bus lane along 16th Street NW, one of the busiest commuting routes connecting suburban Montgomery County and upper- and midtown D.C. neighborhoods to downtown Washington.

The whole city is going nuts—in the best way.

Shortly after former Vice President Joe Biden was announced president-elect, crowds rushed the streets in D.C. and thousands gathered near the White House.

Horns blared, fireworks exploded and shouts of joy filled the air as supporters of Joe Biden and Kamala D. Harris spilled into the streets of Washington and its suburbs late Saturday morning to celebrate the breaking news that the pair had…

Thousands of people poured into downtown D.C. after news broke that Joseph Biden had won the presidency, marking a jubilant end to five consecutive days of anxious demonstrations near the White House.

TGIF! People gathered outside the White House Friday night for a fourth day in a row, protesting President Donald Trump as they await final results from contests in battleground states.

D.C. is now offering patients the option to have COVID-19 testing done at home. It’s meant for communities who can’t access other testing options as D.C. surpasses 650 lives lost to the novel coronavirus.

The Bowser administration has issued a $46 million tax abatement to the developer of a boutique hotel after an auditor said the hotel failed to meet hiring requirements mandated by the D.C. Council.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered with bated but anticipatory excitement in downtown D.C. on Friday afternoon, as votes continued to push Joe Biden closer to victory in the presidential election.

At a time of unease, some locals are buying firearms.

A narrow view of the city’s electorate has emerged in some of the local reporting on this year’s D.C. elections. The District, as I understand it, has been reduced to a town consisting of longtime Black residents of moderate persuasion…

This was supposed to be the year the ascendant left upended the establishment in D.C. politics.

The first thing I saw when I logged on this morning was a message from my editor. Could you drop your plans for the day, he asked me, and go to the parking lot of RFK stadium to cover a pop-up dinosaur theme park?

Johns Hopkins Medicine is moving forward with clinical trials for a potential coronavirus therapeutic at sites across the country, including two in the District.

The District injected $2.5 million into local businesses to prepare for the cold months ahead, providing some hope for a city drained by the pandemic but revealing its vulnerabilities as other shops forego the extra support.

When Matt Murray emerged from his polling place at the Chevy Chase Rec Center on Tuesday, he admitted he was a little bewildered by the ballot he had to vote on — notably the D.C. Council’s At-Large race and its 23 active candidates.

District officials want to create a new loan program for developers buying and renovating affordable properties to try and rescue a variety of projects that might otherwise go without city funding given pandemic budget pressures.