November 2021

Masks are no longer a requirement indoors in D.C., as Mayor Muriel Bowser’s mandate was lifted Monday. Despite that, some small businesses have decided to require customers to keep the layer of safety in place.

Regardless of when federal rental assistance can be expected, DC’s renters should not go without assistance especially as the pandemic continues to be a threat. Local leaders should collaborate to revitalize the program as soon as…

"It's not about public safety. It's about dollars."

Authorities in the District announced Monday the temporary expansion of a monetary reward aimed at helping police find and seize untraceable “ghost guns” made from home kits, as well as other illegal firearms that are modified to fire as…

A D.C. Superior Court judge extended the suspension of the ‘speedy trial’ rule until next year, despite recent federal scrutiny about the D.C. jail’s poor living conditions.

The Cleveland Park residential pipeline may be growing a bit, but it will require moving a house.

Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, a national leader of the far-right group the Proud Boys, has been denied early release from the D.C. jail by a judge who ruled that poor living conditions in the facility are not sufficient reason for Tarrio to be…

As homicide rates remain worryingly high in the District — up 12 percent compared to this time last year, according to D.C. police data — the city is raising the monetary incentive to get illegal guns off the street.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The regional train system serving the Washington, D.C., area will remain on drastically reduced service levels through at least the end of this year, as authorities grapple with a safety problem that has forced the…

“Chicken or veggie?” Cheryl Bell asks again and again. “Chicken or veggie?”

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, the D.C.-based global law and lobbying firm, is committing $1 million to the Howard University School of Law and establishing a new paid fellowship for its students, all in honor of its late partner,…

Mayor Muriel Bowser lifted the District's broad indoor mask mandate as of 5 a.m. today, but face coverings are still required in many circumstances — and the mayor's decision remains a point of contention.

After colorful foliage falls from trees in D.C., the roaring, monotonous symphony of gas-powered leaf blowers typically follows.

Metrorail will spend the rest of the year in a reduced service pattern, with no timeline established after October’s Blue Line derailment.

A train series that makes up 60 percent of the transit agency’s fleet has been sidelined since an October derailment

A mile northeast of Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., along what’s known as the H Street corridor, about half the people crowding the sidewalks are wearing masks. Perhaps it’s because they know that when they step into any business or…

D.C.’s mask mandate was lifted Monday morning as residents head into a holiday week.

Not long after Montgomery County, Maryland, reinstated its mask mandate, D.C. is largely scaling back its own indoor masking as of Monday, per an order from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.