November 2021

A numerical look at what's right and oh so wrong with WMATA.

There were 4.2 million pickleball players in the U.S. last year. It's kind of a big dill.

Humane Rescue Alliance created a program in 2017 that pairs cats who aren’t suited for traditional adoption with spaces where they’ll have space to roam.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced early Thursday that she’ll run for a third term in office, making the expected leap into what’s shaping up to be a competitive race for the Democratic primary in June 2022.

The D.C. Council on Thursday will start working its way through a sweeping rewrite of the city’s criminal code, a deep-in-the-weeds and yet potentially consequential effort to better define crimes, clarify terms and penalties, and repeal…

Two-term D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is officially seeking another four years in office.

Muriel E. Bowser said she will run for a third term as mayor of Washington in 2022, asking voters to grant her four more years to manage the city’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and see through developments in housing and health…

Just over half of eligible D.C. families received child tax credit payments between July and September, according to an analysis by the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis.

In June, DC's Zoning Commission approved a map amendment to rezone the site of the Engine Company 12 fire station at 2225 5th Street NE and 513 Rhode Island Avenue NE from the industrial PDR-2 zoning to MU-10, which would allow…

The D.C. Council on Tuesday approved the reappointments of four members of the city’s Commission on the Arts and Humanities, including two candidates whom council Chairman Phil Mendelson had tried to dismiss because of what he described as…

Mom Sasha Taylor knew Arnoldo would scream and writhe in her arms, that Acia, who uses a wheelchair, would tense up, and that Alea would try to comfort them both.

The U.S. Marshals Service announced the transfer of 400 residents in federal custody at the Central Detention Facility at the D.C. Jail to a prison in Pennsylvania on Tuesday after finding inadequate conditions at CDF.

Critics are saying that money used to support arts programs in D.C. is unfairly distributed along racial lines.

400 inmates being moved to federal prison

Authorities at the D.C. jail ordered members of the U.S. Marshals Service to leave the facility after a team of deputy marshals spent several days last month conducting a surprise inspection of the jail and cataloguing “egregious”…

The president of Howard University in D.C. said the student occupation of campus buildings due to an ongoing protest has led to layoffs in the cafeteria because it has not been able to operate.

As D.C. embarks on the decennial process of redrawing its political boundaries based on the latest census, one major political and cultural change has become apparent: The District will no longer have any ward located entirely east of the…

Defense attorneys have filed for their clients’ release from the D.C. Jail after a U.S. Marshals Service inspection found conditions inside the jail may infringe on inmates’ civil rights.

Activists call on Council to keep LGBTQ neighborhood intact

After working with the nonprofit D.C. Greens for seven years, the D.C. Department of Health is contracting with a new administrator for the city’s Produce Plus program. The new partnership will be unveiled in the next few weeks, program…