April 2021

The former Kimpton Carlyle Hotel in Dupont Circle has reopened with a new name and a new operator after being closed for a year.

A new concourse at the north end of National Airport is set for a soft opening on Tuesday.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine hosted a webinar Wednesday for the community of attorneys general on combating hate and how to better support victims and their families.

Why would someone want to sit in a dark room full of strangers right now? What would possess someone to attend a production about a pandemic during a pandemic?

An order to hold back heavier less-than-lethal weapons put Capitol Police at a significant disadvantage in protecting Congress from the violent right-wing riot on Jan. 6, the force’s inspector general told lawmakers Thursday, as he urged…

D.C. officials are considering a plan to use tax dollars to finance the construction of a massive new development in Ward 7, not long after pushing one of the city’s largest agencies to relocate there and anchor the project.

During last summer’s racial justice protests, local Black-owned businesses saw a surge in community support. At the same time, Prince George’s County natives Kyndra Jones and Khloe Washington — who now co-run Street Smart Collaborative and…

Worthington Woods is one of several sprawling apartment complexes tucked between 3rd street SE and Oxon Run Park on the western edge of the Washington Highlands neighborhood in Ward 8. In 2019, when the complex was put up for sale, the…

DC Health is delaying its initiative to get homebound residents vaccinated because of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause.

D.C. will mark Emancipation Day on Friday, April 16, commemorating an 1862 act signed by Abraham Lincoln which abolished slavery in the District, freeing over 3,000 people eight months before the Emancipation Proclamation.

American University and Georgetown University will require their students to get a Covid-19 vaccine before attending the fall semester. The D.C. universities made their announcements Wednesday, joining a growing number of schools across…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The top watchdog for the U.S. Capitol Police will testify for the first time on Thursday about the department’s broad failures before and during the Jan. 6 insurrection, including missed intelligence predicting a “war”…

I’m the proud granddaughter of two courageous sugarcane farmer workers from south Louisiana. In 1972, Gustave Rhodes and a fellow worker filed a class-action lawsuit against the then-secretary of Agriculture for wages owed by Louisiana’s…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser on Wednesday announced the District will be receiving four times the usual amount of federal funding to combat homelessness because of the Biden administration’s recent stimulus bill.

A reconstruction shows how failures of planning and preparation left police at the Capitol severely disadvantaged on Jan. 6

The D.C. National Guard’s deployment of helicopters to quell racial justice demonstrations in Washington last summer, a chilling scene in which two aircraft hovered extremely low over clusters of protesters, was a misuse of military…