September 2021

On Saturday, a sunny warm day during the long holiday weekend, a D.C. police officer heard gunshots coming from near 7th and Longfellow St., NW, in Brightwood Park. Upon arriving at the scene, just after 7:30 p.m., the officer found six…

The bridge replacement is viewed as a critical step toward the transformation of the shores of the Anacostia River

D.C.’s mayor addressed another violent weekend in the District, during an event at the new Frederick Douglas Memorial Bridge on Monday.

After three years of construction, the new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge welcomed its first users on Labor Day.

Just outside Union Station, there’s a moment when tourists getting off the Amtrak Capitol Limited from Sandusky, Ohio, or the Silver Meteor from Savannah, Ga., stop and give a little gasp at the vista.

Jordan White was in a rush in the predawn hours of Aug. 25, so she kept driving, passing the flashing ambulance lights and the group of officers surrounding a stopped car. Her 8-year-old twin daughters were in the back seat, but White…

George Washington University evacuated 175 students living in two Townhouse Row units on 23rd Street in Northwest D.C. Sunday night due to concerns over mold contamination.

Small businesses selling goods made in D.C. are getting a new, homegrown alternative to sites like Amazon and Etsy to help them reach their customers.

George Washington University students living on Townhouse Row in Foggy Bottom are being moved because of environmental problems discovered in two of the units, the university said Sunday.

The shooting that killed three people and wounded three more on Saturday in Northwest Washington frustrated city leaders who have expressed outrage all year at the continuing violence but have made little progress curbing the District’s…

With the first week of school completed, parents and elected officials in D.C. are still ramping up calls to for the mayor to allow more families to opt in to virtual learning.

“No one who wants employment needs to be idle these busy times,” proclaimed an ad that ran in a Washington newspaper under the headline “$75 Per Month is Good Pay for a Young Man or Woman.”

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) had been trying in Congress for 28 years to transfer control of the D.C. National Guard from the U.S. president to the D.C. mayor — one of the city’s most ardent pleas for local autonomy in the absence of…

As the District reels from deadly gun violence, authorities say assailants have found a new way to boost their firepower by using small, illegal devices that turn semiautomatic handguns and rifles into rapid-fire machine guns.

When supporters of D.C.’s Mt. Pleasant Library printed shirts that said, “What’s more punk than the public library?” earlier this year, they thought they would sell 50. Instead, they’ve sold 7,000, made $100,000 and started a viral…

Family and friends of An’Twan Gilmore — the 27-year-old man fatally shot by D.C. police officer Enis Jevric the morning of August 25 — shut down some of D.C.’s busiest streets and intersections on Friday night along with other marchers. It…

Starting on Sunday, Metro will be adding more trains and buses, extending train service on the weekends and lowering fares, the transit agency announced last month.

Former President Trump is in advanced talks to sell rights to his Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., sources tell Axios.

Coronavirus infections continue to increase across the greater Washington region, with hospital beds filling up, nursing homes returning to visitor restrictions and outbreaks of the virus hitting schools as they return to in-person…

Concerns over the coronavirus, classroom safety and housing were brought to the forefront.