April 2021

House Democrats pledge to vote on a statehood bill before the summer, providing advocates a possible way forward

For the second time in history, the House passed legislation Thursday to make the District of Columbia the nation’s 51st state, bolstering momentum for a once-illusory goal that has become a pivotal tenet of the Democratic Party’s voting…

Downtown D.C. set all kinds of records in 2020 — and not in a good way.

Officials are shifting their attention to people who have yet to sign up for the vaccine in an effort to reach vaccination levels needed to control the virus.

For the second year in a row, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass the bill that would grant statehood to the District of Columbia.

The auditor report finds that D.C. swiftly implemented more coronavirus policies than nearly anywhere in the country.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A decades-long movement to reshape the American political map took a further step Thursday as the House of Representatives approved a bill to make the nation’s capital the 51st state.

Can a dry, 1,500-page land-use document solve the problem of racial inequity in the District? As the five-year-long debate over the city’s comprehensive plan nears its end, that has become the question D.C. leaders are struggling to…

The long-standing dream of D.C. statehood took one step closer to reality Thursday when the House passed Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s HR 51 bill.

The Metro Board of Directors says the transit system has weathered the pandemic-related financial storm that threatened drastic service cuts, and is looking for financial incentives to lure riders back to the transit system.

Web developers and live music fans Nameer Rizvi and Naomi-Grace Panlaqui had been dating for about eight months when they decided to take their relationship to the next level. During a pre-pandemic night out, the couple went for a drink at…

The full House of Representatives voted for HR 51, the bill that would make D.C. a state.

It was my third week in Georgetown, and I was taking an evening stroll around town; one cobblestone step after the other, marveling at the red brick rowhouses and the proud American flags. Then, as I took a turn on Prospect Street NW, I…

The Swedish trend of picking up trash while jogging, known as plogging, has been around for a few years now. So you’d expect enthusiasts to be on the lookout for the next big thing when it comes to combining exercise with environmental…