2021

With students back in school buildings amid high community transmission of the coronavirus, lunchtime has emerged as a sticking point over whether DC is taking the necessary precautions to limit spread in the public schools.

The Kennedy Center is celebrating 50 years of art and culture in the nation’s capital.

March 28, 2013 is a day etched in the mind of Erica Campbell.

Many people spotted vibrantly green water flowing along the Broad Branch section of Rock Creek earlier Sunday.

One of the success stories in American education has been the turnaround of education in the nation’s capital in the decade since school reform was ushered in. Schools in D.C., once ranked among the worst in the country, are now some of…

Disciplinary actions have been recommended against U.S. Capitol Police officers identified in six complaints made after the Jan. 6 insurrection, the U.S. Capitol Police said Saturday evening.

At Bancroft Elementary in Northwest Washington, families created a schedule for parents to volunteer to watch children during their lunch periods, ensuring everyone can space out and eat outdoors. At Thomson Elementary, a school in the…

The U.S. Capitol Police has recommended disciplinary action against six officers who responded to Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the department announced in a news release Saturday evening.

Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge opens to traffic, but temporary night stoppages planned

Thomas LeBlanc will have the shortest term as head of the university in the past half-century

At 9:37 a.m. on September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 77 banked sharply, then dove at 400 miles per hour toward the heart of the U.S. military.

Just a few weeks into the new school year, thousands of students and teachers across the Washington region have been quarantined for potential exposure to the coronavirus, worrying parents who had hoped for something closer to what was…

On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, hundreds of volunteers gathered in a cavernous hall of the D.C. convention center to honor the victims by taking part in community service.

From his desk at the FBI’s Washington Field Office, Pete Lapp could see smoke blackening the sky above the Pentagon.

Several D.C.-area leaders marked the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with solemn speeches Saturday.

“You know we Black folks do call and response, so: Hey family!” LaTasha Seliby-Perkins, a family physician at Georgetown University School of Medicine, called to a predominantly Black crowd of nearly 30 women sitting beneath a white tent. …

The utility laid blame for the customer-service delays on the pandemic and what it said were problems with a Virginia contractor