2021

Two years ago, 13-year-old Jahani Hester lost one of his best friends, Karon Brown, after the 11-year-old was shot and killed while trying to flee a neighborhood conflict. He’s still working to heal from that loss.

Vernice Puryear, who lives in Ward 7, is supportive of the COVID-19 vaccine. But she says she understands why some other Black D.C. residents, particularly those living in wards 7 and 8, are skeptical about it.

At least seven D.C.-area universities have grappled, some more successfully than others, with a series of lawsuits filed by students and their families seeking partial refunds for tuition and mandatory fees they paid before classes were…

Advocates continue to push for more funding for excluded workers ahead of tomorrow’s final budget vote.

The number of people running for elected office and contributing to local D.C. campaigns increased in 2020, likely because of the city’s new program that offers public financing to candidates running for elected office.

The Washington Examiner writer on the story was not invited to the wedding, an organizer says.

Because of serious and long-term failures in the governance and operation of the Adams Morgan Partnership Business Improvement District (BID), several dozen investors in the properties that pay the majority of the taxes that fund the Adams…

D.C. may be awash in federal funding these days, but one infrastructure project will likely go unfunded in this year’s budget: a pedestrian tunnel to better link the NoMa Metro station to the neighborhood’s booming east side around Union…

The D.C. Council approved an initial budget plan funding the city’s Office for the Deaf, Deafblind, and Hard of Hearing (ODDHH) during a virtual meeting on July 20. If left intact during the council’s upcoming Aug. 3 vote, the budget will…

As DC's renewed indoor mask mandate took effect over the weekend, Mayor Muriel Bowser faced criticism over her own masking practices.

Localities across Greater Washington plan to work together to pursue federal funding for regional economic development priorities in a new effort spearheaded by a nonprofit that’s spent the pandemic promoting greater local collaboration.

In a recent appearance on MSNBC, actor John Leguizamo made a strong case for supporting the proposed National Museum of the American Latino, which Congress authorized in December. In a short but animated segment, Leguizamo, a board member…

Hours after the District’s reimposed mask mandate went into effect Saturday, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) officiated an outdoor wedding with an indoor reception, raising questions over whether she had violated her own order.

The national eviction moratorium expired Saturday and on July 25, the District’s local ban on evictions, tied to Mayor Muriel Bowser’s public health emergency declaration, also expired, leaving thousands of D.C. residents on the edge of…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office is pushing back against claims made by conservative media outlets that she went maskless indoors in defiance of her own indoor mask mandate, which was reinstated 5 a.m. Saturday.