April 2021

There is no end in sight for about 1,500 inmates at the DC Jail who have been effectively subject to a kind of solitary confinement for 23 hours of the day throughout the pandemic.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three months after more than 25,000 National Guard troops poured into the nation’s capital to secure President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Defense Department and Guard officials are losing patience and are denying some of…

The plywood boards that have for months covered glass windows and doors in downtown Washington have begun to fall away. Window displays and happy hour specials outnumber the wooden shields and painted placards for the first time since…

A property developer looking to remove a pond in Northwest D.C. discovered dozens of goldfish from a previous owner. So they called the Humane Rescue Alliance for help.

Law enforcement officials are preparing for the outcome of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the officer accused of causing George Floyd’s death, which sparked nationwide protests calling for police reform last summer.

With spring in full bloom, D.C.’s Department of Transportation will start its annual tradition of spraying ginkgo trees Monday night.

Up to 2,500 D.C. unemployment recipients whose benefits were interrupted in recent weeks should receive the funds they are owed beginning Tuesday, the director of the city’s Department of Employment Services (DOES) said.

Well, it was nice while it lasted.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who was injured while confronting rioters during the Jan. 6 insurrection, suffered a stroke and died from natural causes, the Washington, D.C., medical examiner’s office ruled…

The D.C. medical examiner has released the cause and manner of death for Brian Sicknick, the Capitol Police officer who died a day after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick had two strokes before he died following the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol, according to a ruling from the D.C. Medical Examiner.

Capitol Police officer Brian D. Sicknick suffered two strokes and died of natural causes a day after he confronted rioters at the Jan. 6 insurrection, the District’s chief medical examiner has ruled.

The vacant lot next to the H Street NW Walmart will finally be filled in.

The DC Court of Appeals threw out Brandon Golden’s felony gun convictions in a ruling last week that found that officers with the Metropolitan Police Department’s Gun Recovery Unit illegally stopped and searched him.

In a step toward pre-pandemic normalcy, the District is set to resume full enforcement of parking violations this spring.

The new $18 million Southwest Library is set to open May 6 with an impressive list of services and features, the DC Public Library announced Monday.

After months of drivers largely skipping out on the risk of parking tickets, D.C. officials announced Monday they will fully restart parking enforcement on June 1 — but will also give scofflaws a break on overdue tickets.

D.C. will begin administering vaccines to homebound residents at their homes on April 26, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Monday.