2021

Community leaders, neighbors, and advocates congregated outside of Foundry United Methodist Church on July 18 to honor the life of Jose Antonio Navarro and 42 other individuals who have passed away on the streets of D.C. in 2021.

Advisory Neighborhood Commissions (ANCs) in D.C. can continue meeting virtually through January of next year, according to a recent decision made by the D.C. Council. The hyper-local elected bodies have kept up monthly schedules through…

Eight-year-old Faris Nunn knows that millions of people have clicked on a video that shows her talking, but she doesn’t fully understand why.

D.C. police have announced the formation of a unit that will patrol neighborhoods most affected by violent crime using bikes and scooters as part of an effort to better engage with the community.

A nearly 4,000-square-foot, 120-year-old Dupont Circle-area home once owned by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has sold and will be converted to condos after a heavy renovation.

D.C. inmates in federal prisons said that a majority of them had limited access to coronavirus tests and medical care during the pandemic and reported inconsistencies in mask-wearing among prison staff, according to a report by an…

A 10-member intelligence team of D.C. police detectives and agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been formed in the newest effort to rein in the deadly gun violence on the streets of the District.

From the manicured rooftop of one of the several high-rise luxury condos that surround Nationals Park in Southeast D.C., residents of the building can watch players round bases and pop foul balls into the stands. They can see the…

“We’re fighting for our values, our representation, all of this work that we do.”

Across the western U.S., 1.3 million acres of land are actively burning — equivalent to the entire state of Delaware. On top of that, hundreds of wildfires are blazing across Canada. The smoke from those fires is now drifting across the…

Carmel Partners cast a winning bid of $152.25 million for the former Marriott Wardman Park hotel in Northwest D.C. during a closed-door auction kicked off Tuesday by Eastdil Secured, according to a source familiar with the situation. The…

Air quality is expected to improve by Thursday as a cold front pushes most of the smoke away

The two newest members of the DC Council helped pass a higher tax rate on incomes over $250,000 — a reversal of last year's budget vote, when a similar revenue-raising effort fell short.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X spent the best years of their young lives offering solutions to the most vexing problems of racism, poverty and violence in the United States. For both men, the well-being of Black people…

The Smithsonian hopes to get the public’s help plotting out D.C. musical sounds and history by using an online interactive map.