December 2021

COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are increasing around the D.C. region following the Thanksgiving holiday – and amidst the arrival of the new omicron variant.

Several grade levels at a Ward 6 D.C. elementary school have pivoted to virtual learning as a result of several positive coronavirus cases.

Workers at Politics and Prose, the longtime independent bookstore with three locations around D.C., have decided to unionize, joining a growing labor movement of retail workers across the country.

D.C., Maryland, and Virginia have all reported cases of the new Omicron COVID-19 variant.

D.C. is poised to review every case conducted by the Department of Forensic Sciences’ firearms and fingerprint units since the inception of the independent crime lab nearly 10 years ago, following the recommendations of a sweeping new…

The suit, filed Monday by a group of Howard alumni, is asking a judge to intervene in a more than year-long dispute.

A lot of things helped Wesley Thomas survive 29 years living on Washington’s streets: the meals distributed by the charity Miriam’s Kitchen, the coins he’d panhandle around Foggy Bottom, his own hard-earned smarts.

A long-anticipated report on the D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences (DFS) found systematic failures throughout the agency, and in response, the city government has vowed to convene a committee of stakeholders to launch post-conviction…

Seth McClelland of Never Looked Better posted videos about what to order when using a fake ID.

Nearly six years after DC selected a development team for the city-owned space at 1000 4th Street SW (map), Waterfront Station II is officially breaking ground.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Monday that the city is partnering with the U.S. Treasury Department to give small businesses and residents in the District greater access to credit and capital.

The District, Maryland and Virginia have each detected cases of omicron — including one in Northern Virginia reported over the weekend — but the newest coronavirus variant has been present in the greater Washington region for at last three…

The power of incumbency pays off, it seems.

DC Health announced four cases among fully vaccinated individuals.

Georgetown University said Monday that one of D.C.’s four COVID-19 omicron variant cases involves a member of the Georgetown community.

Four cases of the omicron variant of COVID-19 have been identified in the District, officials announced Sunday in a news release from DC Health.