2021

Markita Bryant does not feel it is safe to send her 10-year-old son back to his D.C. school for in-person learning. The fifth-grader has asthma that puts him at high risk of severe illness if he contracts the coronavirus.

Standing in front of a bar on 14th Street shortly after a gunman opened fire on the busy corridor in Northwest Washington last week, a group of men argued about who and what to blame for the increase in gun violence in D.C. that sent…

In the early days of the Covid crisis, when the worsening pandemic seemed to bring a different piece of bad news literally by the minute, Carmen Romero wondered if her affordable housing nonprofit just might go under.

The Anacostia River has been too polluted to swim in for decades — a swim ban has been in effect since the 1970s. But recent cleanup progress has led officials to start talking about revisiting the ban, with the goal of allowing swimming…

Nyiah Courtney’s family is going through horrifying anguish right now, and our hearts ache. Six-year-old Nyiah was killed walking home in mid-July in her Congress Heights neighborhood. She had a right to live a long, peaceful life. This…

Any delusion that our city’s gun violence afflicts only certain (poor) neighborhoods has to have been erased by the past several weeks.

Ahead of a looming deadline for the District to use its federally allocated rent relief funds, local advocacy groups are pushing the city to make the application process easier to navigate for people who speak little or no English.

Mayor Muriel Bowser is restoring the District's indoor mask mandate as of Saturday morning in response to increased community spread of the coronavirus along with new information about the extra dangers presented by the delta variant.

D.C. jail officials turned away GOP members of Congress who showed up Thursday at the jail, saying they intended to inspect the treatment of suspects detained in the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress overwhelmingly passed emergency legislation Thursday that would bolster security at the Capitol, repay outstanding debts from the violent Jan. 6 insurrection and increase the number of visas for allies who worked…

Board members said they want more input from jurisdictions served by Metro on the proposal.

Restaurant employees are once more tasked with enforcing the order.

Funding will reimburse cleanup costs. A bridge replacement will cost $25 million.

As the District faces a continuing surge in homicides, Mayor Muriel Bowser and other D.C. officials have placed some blame for the increase at the feet of the D.C. Superior Court.

Metro’s board is delaying a vote on a policy to temporarily ban people who commit sex and weapons offenses on the transit system.

Providence Health System is days away from introducing the next piece of its outpatient “healthy village” campus, two years after opening an urgent care center in its shuttered Northeast D.C. hospital with the promise of more to come.

Masks will again be required indoors in D.C. beginning Saturday, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser ordered, in a reversal of recent policy driven by new federal guidelines that recommend indoor masking in areas where coronavirus transmission is high.…