November 2021

George Washington University is suing a Rhode Island insurance company over what it claims is $75,000 worth of insurance coverage for coronavirus-related expenses, court documents show.

In the months following this summer’s influx of Afghan refugees to the D.C. area – and as resettlement agencies deal with limited resources – local businesses have stepped up to provide aid. This Thanksgiving, restaurants such as Lapis in…

D.C. will terminate the housing subsidies of 384 families who receive rent relief through the city’s “rapid rehousing” program throughout March and April of 2022. The decision will plunge hundreds of financially vulnerable people deeper…

This year isn't the first time DC Council members have proposed bringing ranked-choice voting to the District, but last week did mark the first time a council committee held a public hearing on legislation to do so.

The development team behind the reshaping of the 15 acres in Southwest DC that includes the Greenleaf Gardens public housing community has released its final plan for how that redevelopment will take shape.

The proposed D.C. Council’s subcommittee on redistricting map based on the 2020 census includes significant changes in the boundaries for Wards 6, 7 and 8 which have generated spirited discussion among District residents.

To celebrate her 6-year-old son becoming fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, D.C. parent Leilah Mooney Joseph has planned what she called a “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” type of day.

Community services group moves offices to Dupont Circle

The Smithsonian will close the Air and Space Museum on the National Mall on March 28 for at least six months as it completes the first phase of a seven-year renovation that is expected to cost more than $1 billion.

Students on the Mall are a sight for sore eyes in our nation’s tourism-dependent capital

Supporters of a bill to give the D.C. mayor control over the District’s National Guard force say they will continue to push for its inclusion in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), although the provision wasn’t part of the…

Private-sector employees in the District now have to be offered two hours of paid leave to get a COVID-19 shot — both for themselves and for their children.

Present and former colleagues on Tuesday remembered Doug Hill, who died Monday after having been a meteorologist in the D.C. area for more than 30 years.

Photographer Dee Dwyer assembled more than 100 go-go artists to pay homage to the Art Kane photo known as “A Great Day in Harlem.”

Dozens of artists will reunite and pay tribute to the club that was beloved by artists like John Denver and Stevie Wonder.

Joel Castón, the Ward 7 ANC Commissioner who was elected earlier this year while he was incarcerated at the D.C. Jail, has been released on parole after serving 26 years in prison.

Despite a dearth of archaeological research in D.C., developers have stumbled on artifacts throughout the past few hundred years.

Doug Hill, a giant in TV weather broadcasting in the Washington region, died Monday, according to ABC7, where he retired as chief meteorologist in 2017.

When D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the imminent end of the citywide mask mandate last week, she positioned the decision as part of a fundamental reframing of her administration’s thinking — and policymaking — around COVID-19.