2021

The rise in killings largely attributed to gunfire reflects a national trend

At least three D.C. councilmembers are urging D.C. Public Schools to adopt more COVID-19 protection measures before students return to classrooms on January 5.

Days before more than 90,000 D.C. public school students are due back in the classroom, the details of the opening are still being worked out, according to schools Chancellor Lewis Ferebee.

Across the region, more people are hospitalized with COVID-19 than at any other point in the pandemic — underscoring the magnitude of omicron’s surge in the final weeks of the year.

D.C. Public Schools are gearing up for a return to the classroom next week that parents and teachers worry will be chaotic. The city will require a negative coronavirus test from every student and staff member before school resumes next…

Brittany Graham describes Lorraine Thomas, the 21-year-old Washington Highlands resident now memorialized on a mural outside Chesapeake Big Market, as her “guardian angel.”

The District ended fiscal year 2021 with $576 million in revenue beyond the initial estimates used in drafting the budget.

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are on the rise, with half of all new cases reported being among 15-to-24-year-olds. Abstinence-only sex “education” exacerbates transmission rates by decreasing the likelihood that youths will make…

There was another traffic crash involving a child. This one was in the 3300 block of Wheeler Road SE. A 9-year-old child is paralyzed. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) made what WAMU reporter Martin Austermuhle identified as a rare…

On a narrow sidewalk in Northwest Washington, a small group of volunteers stacked cardboard and folded plastic sheets, loaded shopping carts and handed out hot coffee as they helped a chronically homeless man named Ashmore take stock of…

The latest surge in coronavirus cases throughout the Washington region has fire and emergency medical service departments wrestling with a tangle of challenges including delays in returning ambulances back to service after hospital…

Hospitals in the greater Washington region are discouraging people who are asymptomatic or have mild covid-19 symptoms from seeking coronavirus tests in emergency rooms and urgent care offices, which are already struggling to treat…

New York City was America’s first coronavirus epicenter. Then rural communities became the hub, the virus jumping from one region to another as months passed.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said Thursday it has streamlined the approval process for urgent use of National Guard forces in the District of Columbia, after months of study following the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Mosaic Theater Company is collecting stories from residents of the H Street neighborhood who experienced the 1968 riots in D.C. following Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, and who have reflections on the summer of 2020 protests…

As many people prepare to celebrate the New Year this weekend, D.C. is seeing a positive trend: fewer drunk driving crashes, injuries and arrests.

Three days into 2021, Kaailyah Rainey was with her mother on the way home from a family party when someone started shooting in the 3800 block of Wheeler Road in Southeast Washington. A stray bullet shattered the window of their minivan and…