April 2021

A new bill in the D.C. Council would prohibit police from engaging in most car chases, and would ban tactics that critics say led to the death of two men in recent years.

More than a year after the coronavirus pandemic brought in-person instruction to a grinding halt, colleges and universities across the region are hoping the increasing availability of COVID-19 vaccines could signal a return to some…

D.C. has planned a Day of Action on May 1 as part of the push to get as many residents as possible vaccinated against COVID-19.

The full House votes Thursday on a bill to make D.C. the 51st state and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says he’s confident it will pass, even though Republicans have narrowed Democrats’ majority since the 2020 election.

The year is 2023. You just received your second COVID-19 booster vaccine, and you’re waiting, maskless, to board your flight at JoJo Siwa Washington National Airport.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is bringing a DC statehood bill to the House floor for a vote on April 22. We chatted with him about how the fight has changed since a similar bill was passed last year.

After years of public debate, the D.C. Council advanced amendments to a massive blueprint that guides development and growth for the city. The Comprehensive Plan, or Comp Plan, as it’s called, was last re-written in 2006 and amended in…

Trinity Washington University will require students and employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19 before the fall semester, the school announced Tuesday.

An affiliate of JBG Smith Properties (NYSE: JBGS) is exploring the sale of 500 L'Enfant Plaza, a nearly fully leased office building it developed in 2019, as it seeks to raise more capital for future investment opportunities.

The sun is setting on Friday night at D.C.’s newest national memorial along Pennsylvania Avenue. Earlier in the day, as part of a ceremony, a U.S. flag was raised for the first time signifying that the World War I Memorial in Pershing Park…

The university said classes offered in the department will be dispersed to other academic units

Six years after Mayor Muriel Bowser committed DC to the goal of ensuring that “no lives are lost on our streets or at our intersections,” DC is on pace for its deadliest year of traffic violence in over a decade.

The city-owned site that was the subject of DC's first EquityRFP may be redeveloped using an equity-focused model.

The owner of the popular Madam’s Organ blues bar and restaurant in Adams Morgan, said he has asked D.C.’s mayor for permission to fully reopen, by requiring every person in the club provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19.

Legislation that would make the District the 51st state is scheduled for a House vote on Thursday — and the prospects of the federal city achieving statehood received at least a ceremonial boost on Tuesday.

Downtown D.C.’s travel and leisure industry is slowly but surely recovering from the depths of the pandemic, but it could take until next year for hotel occupancy in the city's central business district to inch past the halfway mark…