April 2021

WASHINGTON — If you've ever seen run-down houses and apartment buildings around the District and wondered what’s being done about them, you're not alone. DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson is asking the same question, but now he's…

Residents of yet another DC neighborhood tell us they have stopped getting mail – and as it has done for months, Seven on Your Side is trying to help.

A new affordable development pitched for just north of the St. Elizabeths East campus in Southeast D.C. aims to offer homes exclusively for formerly homeless seniors diagnosed with mental illnesses.

Karon Hylton zipped through streets and alleys of his old D.C. neighborhood on a rented moped. A police car, lights flashing, tailed him.

An unprecedented infusion of federal funds is flowing into school systems across the country, with the Washington region expected to pull in more than $1.8 billion for school districts planning summer-school expansions, new virtual…

Largely overlooked in President Biden’s economic recovery and infrastructure plan is a sweeping effort to reconnect communities divided by urban highways. The $20 billion in aid Biden proposed in his American Jobs Plan would be a historic…

The State of Downtown report discussion was virtual for the second year in a row, and the overall consensus from the Downtown Business Improvement District is that economic recovery in D.C. from the coronavirus is a long road ahead — but…

While stars are career-changing for chefs, the spotlight is dimmed this year by all the restaurants that couldn't outlast the pandemic.

The House passed statehood legislation on Thursday, sending it to a Democratic-controlled Senate where its chances of approval are more dim.

For Ty Hobson-Powell, his hometown of D.C. means go-go music, basketball culture, and mumbo sauce. The city is not the monuments or what you see on CNN for natives like him; it’s the Black-owned businesses on U Street, from Ben’s Chili…

Metro officials praised a new report from a panel created to review claims against Transit Police, calling it a boost to the agency’s transparency. But critics argued a lack of detail and the panel’s inability to conduct investigations…

When school buildings closed last March, Tara Brown’s then-12-year-old daughter stopped turning in assignments. Most of her classmates in Southeast Washington didn’t show up to their virtual classes that spring, so she wasn’t socializing…

Georgetown University has struggled all spring to devise a commencement plan that will satisfy the urge of graduating seniors to celebrate in person after a grueling year and the demand of D.C. authorities to protect public health amid the…

"We really want to make sure this idea doesn’t die or people see it as a failure of the system."

A source-of-income complaint that local housing nonprofit Housing Counseling Services and their client, Robert Evans, brought against Bozzuto Management Company ended in a settlement last month.

The U.S. House of Representatives has once again voted on a bill to grant statehood to Washington, D.C., and enfranchise more than 712,000 Americans, a cause that enjoys unprecedented support but still faces an uphill battle in the U.S.…

There’s a basic rule that many political activists accept as given: Before you can convince voters your solution to a problem is the right one, you have to get them to agree there’s a problem in the first place. Which is why those who have…

Owner Bill Duggan is lobbying Mayor Muriel Bowser.