November 2021

Forensic analysts have identified a new and highly potent family of synthetic opioids in the District’s illicit drug supply, a worrisome discovery in a city already struggling with a wave of fatal overdoses that shows no signs of abating. …

With the onset of cold weather, four DC Council members are urging Mayor Muriel Bowser to suspend any further encampment clearings until spring, though the mayor's initial reaction does not suggest a change is imminent.

After comedian Dave Chappelle’s comments on Netflix about the transgender community caused weeks of backlash, will a theater at his old high school still be named after him?

Are you interested in making food donations to a local kitchen or pantry, but aren’t sure that what you’re giving will help? Local chef and restaurateur Mark Bucher has some suggestions.

Less than a week after D.C. became the latest jurisdiction to drop its indoor mask requirements, a new and potentially more contagious variant of the deadly coronavirus has prompted some businesses and officials to double down on masking…

Change is on the horizon in Northwest Washington. Only now the proverbial Grim Reaper is dressed for lacrosse.

For Small Business Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris paid an afternoon visit to D.C.’s Downtown Holiday Market for a little holiday shopping and to stress the vital role of small businesses in the U.S. economy.

Some students at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts have expressed concerns about the comedian’s jokes in a recent Netflix special

If you had met Fellonte Misher a decade ago, you would have encountered a teenager who believed the only way he could help his family was through football.

Less than a week before the District is scheduled to permanently shutter another sprawling homeless encampment, several D.C. Council members urged the mayor’s office to pause its controversial effort to clear encampments until the end of…

Four members of the D.C. Council are calling on Mayor Muriel Bowser to temporarily stop clearing homeless encampments during the most frigid months of the year.

Four members of the D.C. Council are urging Mayor Muriel Bowser to pause the clearing of homeless encampments through the winter.

On a day when the wind whipped across a parking lot outside a Southeast D.C. church and temperatures dropped into the 30s, members of the D.C. Knights of Columbus distributed coats it bought for its annual coat drive.

Your United Way of the National Capital Area has always worked to address the inequities in our systems for employment, education, health and food access, financial stability and opportunities for all. But, most importantly, we recognize…

At the beginning of World War I, the couple dozen students attending American University suddenly found themselves shunted off campus, their classes held at professors’ houses, while more than 1,000 chemists and engineers flocked to what…

For several years, I have written in late December about our city having once again reached a new and dreadful homicide death mark. This time, it’s different. On Monday, the city recorded its 200th homicide in 2021 — an annual death toll…

Most Americans would find it repugnant to value a Black child’s life lower than a White child’s, and surely no judge would overtly rule that Black lives are worth less based on the color of the person’s skin. And yet, in courtrooms…