April 2021

D.C. is loosening some COVID-19 restrictions on businesses such as retail, restaurants, entertainment venues and gyms starting May 1, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced at a news conference Monday.

The Great Takoma Goldfish Rescue of 2021 began when Jeffery Kozero walked past a cloudy concrete pond in the yard of an old house at 517 Cedar St. NW and felt a splash. Kozero is a developer and his company, MainStreet 407 Partners, had…

At last night's Oscars, Glenn Close's shoutout to Experience Unlimited's go-go hit "Da Butt" was "a great honor," says Gregory "Sugar Bear" Elliott.

The H Street corridor got a streetcar. The Navy Yard got a Whole Foods. Southwest Washington got the Wharf, transforming a once-dowdy waterfront into a playground for live-music lovers and eaters of pricey seafood.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser confirmed Monday that the city will ease some coronavirus-related restrictions in May, and said the District is transitioning away from its preregistration system in favor of “high-capacity” walk-up vaccination…

Geoffrey Roth, a descendant of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation, says his Facebook feed has been full of grief over the past year.

With baseball, hockey and other D.C.-area sports gradually opening back up to fans, Metro is extending service for games that run past the system’s normal closing time.

Madam’s Organ started a local conversation on “vaccine passports” in the hopes that nightlife could look like the Before Times.

While DC has been operating under the assumption that there are more than 700,000 residents in the city, the 2020 Census counts announced Monday are seemingly a reality check.

Kanika Savoy attended her first protest on Friday. The 22-year-old Trinity Washington University student said she came out to join a group of dozens that had gathered in Freedom Plaza that evening because she “saw everything that was…

For Children’s National Hospital’s future D.C. campus, the future is here.

D.C. will open 11 new walk-up COVID-19 vaccine sites across the District on Saturday, after health officials said the city has reached an “equilibrium” in the supply and demand for the vaccine.

With the District’s COVID-19 cases trending in an optimistic direction and vaccination numbers increasing, officials will ease more restrictions on outdoor dining, fitness centers, and places of worship starting May 1.

If you run a red light or drive too fast, you might see the flashing lights of a police car in your rearview mirror.

The ACLU of D.C. on Monday announced that the District has agreed to a $1.6 million settlement of two lawsuits over the treatment of protesters at then-President Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2017.

D.C. will pay $1.6 million to settle two lawsuits filed against the city for false arrests and excessive force during demonstrations on Inauguration Day in 2017.

Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s non-voting delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives, has been the capital city’s advocate for more than 30 years.