November 2021

Washington Post readers may find a familiar face in their mailbox next year: The newspaper’s former publisher, the late Katharine Graham, is being honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a new stamp.

Entrepreneur Grant Verstandig is donating to the Medical/Surgical Pavilion under construction

Jewish students at George Washington University dropped in all day Monday at the school’s Hillel — a Jewish student organization — and rallied on campus streets after a Jewish text was desecrated at a fraternity over the weekend.

General Manager Paul J. Wiedefeld released a nearly $4.6 billion budget proposal that continues to heavily rely on federal aid.

Adding a new measure for COVID-19 testing and tracing, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and DC Health have unveiled a new online portal for District residents to self report at-home tests.

Vincent B. Orange, a former member of the D.C. Council, filed paperwork Monday to run for the Ward 5 seat he once held for eight years.

Metro is using older models of trains — including the 2000-series, 3000-series, and 6000-series — to decrease wait times as the system runs on a reduced schedule.

This spring, Petworth News reported that arts institution Dance Loft on 14 had a residential redevelopment plan in the works for the stretch of 14th Street NW that houses its headquarters. Now, we are getting a sense of what that project…

As the weather turns cooler, D.C. leaders are focusing on getting the District’s homeless into permanent housing.

In a Monday afternoon update, Metro said it has made progress getting more trains on the track and improving wait times, but it will be a while before schedules are back to normal.

There’s a new environmentalist in town, and she could become bigger than Greta Thunberg with America’s little girls.

The deadline arrived Monday for D.C. teachers, school staffers, school bus drivers and child care workers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

A heated political battle over how the District handles its arts funding is reaching a boiling point, as the D.C. Council decides Tuesday whether to re-appoint four of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s nominees to the D.C. Commission on the Arts and…

Let’s say you live near a problem intersection in DC: one with rampant speeding, poor visibility, and drivers that don’t bother stopping for pedestrians. Maybe a few drivers have crashed there; maybe you’ve had to jump out of the way one…

As the DC Council Sub-Committee on Redistricting continues the city's redistricting process aimed at creating more population balance between DC's wards, three possible redistricting maps have been released for the public to consider.

The D.C. Council committee in charge of redistricting has released three maps that will influence how the panel redraws the borders of the city’s wards.

Metro is proposing a budget for next year that includes a slew of fare perks, continuing the transit agency’s attempts to draw in riders during a slow pandemic recovery process.

For the first time in nearly two decades, the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building is reopening to the public later this month — and it will give visitors a glimpse into the future.

Former D.C. Council member Vincent Orange wants to return to the District’s legislative body by reclaiming his old seat as the Ward 5 lawmaker and reminding voters of his experience and successes.