November 2021

Organizers hope the market will help small businesses engage with the downtown environment, a market that is typically out of their reach.

The sale and use of gas-powered leaf blowers will be prohibited in the District starting in January. Environmental advocates say it’s a move in the right direction.

One D.C. department has housing violation authority but claims it does not have expertise to conduct mold inspections. Another agency has the expertise but no enforcement authority.

The Rev. Mark E. Whitlock Jr., senior pastor of Reid Temple AME Church, decided to devote his entire early morning virtual service on Friday to the coronavirus as soon as he heard about the latest variant of concern.

There’s a grainy, ‘90s-era video on YouTube that shows a 16-year-old Black kid in an oversized white T-shirt, prisoner No. 272-113 at the D.C. Jail. A dark-suited reporter asks him whether anyone he knew growing up in his neighborhood…

A former assistant principal at a D.C. middle school has been accused of having held a second full-time job as a principal at a high school in Providence, Rhode Island — a possible violation of the city’s ethics rules for government…

AG Karl Racine says Cure the Streets will expand to four additional sites.

D.C. has the highest rate of senior hunger in the nation when compared to states. Feeding America’s “State of Senior Hunger in America in 2019” report, released in August 2021, says 13.5 percent of seniors in the District were food…

Two digital marketing agencies and a school dining service company that sued Whittle School & Studios over allegations of unpaid work have been awarded a total of almost $1.4 million, court documents show.

Wesley Thomas may possess a distinction no one would ever desire: homeless in Washington longer than anyone.

Anna Valero spent much of the pandemic trying to pull together D.C.’s restaurant industry and help workers survive. Now, as the industry slowly recovers, she’s hoping to use the connections she built during Covid to transform downtown's…

An assistant principal at one of D.C.’s public middle schools is accused of taking a second job in person while working remotely for the District, according to an ethics board complaint.

Michael Redmond faces allegations that he violated the city’s code of ethics by holding both jobs last year.

It was almost 20 months ago that the COVID-19 pandemic forced the D.C. Council into a new world of virtual hearings and votes, but now lawmakers say it’s time to return to the Wilson Building in person. And while many of the details of how…

Yesterday's announcement of stepped-up police enforcement around selected school zones drew flak from a number of school and traffic safety advocates who had hoped for more in response to recent traffic fatalities.

Aldo Richardson, 61, better known as “Al,” signed up to serve in the Army Reserves shortly after high school. Born in East St. Louis, Missouri, but raised in Chicago, he attended Carpenter Elementary School and William H. Wells High…