2021

D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee, flanked by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser at a Saturday afternoon news conference, asked for the public’s help to identify a silver sedan used in a Friday night drive-by shooting that left six-year-old Nyiah…

She liked to mimic her grandmother, so a week ago, Nyiah Courtney got her hair braided.

A 6-year-old girl was killed in a D.C. shooting that also injured five adults Friday night, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Anyone expecting Mayor Muriel Bowser to use her appearance on Friday's "Politics Hour" to announce she'll be running for a third term didn't quite get what they wanted — but she did drop another in her series of hints.

Collective Action for Safe Spaces and Harriet's Wildest Dreams accuse bar of seeking to evade accountability and protect its bottom line.

Nellie’s issued an apology Friday to the 22-year-old Black woman who was seen in a viral video being dragged down the stairs of the sports bar by security in June.

The communications director for D.C. Council member Vincent C. Gray (D-Ward 7) was arrested Thursday night and is among four people charged in a domestic assault that left a man injured, according to the lawmaker’s office and D.C. police. …

Health organization to open largest-ever facility at St. Elizabeth’s East

Special education lawyers and advocates are pushing D.C. officials to provide an extra year of special education services to students who aged out of these programs during the pandemic, arguing that these young adults did not receive the…

Several high-level actors, authors and journalists have joined the faculty of Howard University for the fall semester, but the provost said that’s only one reason enrollment is surging.

After closing for about a month following the emergence of a video that captured a woman being dragged by security personnel, Nellie’s Sports Bar in D.C. said that it has hired a longtime activist to help staff with diversity, sensitivity…

Construction to make Black Lives Matter Plaza a permanent art installation will begin Monday, with 16th Street NW between H and K streets closing to vehicle traffic.

The words “CUBA LIBRE” were seen painted in large letters on the street outside the Embassy of Cuba in Northwest Washington on Friday, an expression of solidarity with the thousands of anti-government protesters across Cuba.

Did you think for one second that the highly publicized March 23 carjacking of Uber Eats delivery driver Mohammad Anwar in Southeast D.C., which resulted in a horrific crash that left Anwar dead and two girls, age 13 and 15, under arrest,…

Beginning Tuesday, the Smithsonian Institution will no longer require visitors to reserve timed-entry passes at any of its D.C.-area museums, with the exception of the National Museum of African American History and Culture — which used a…

Shortly after the region saw coronavirus case counts drop to record-breaking lows, infections are on the rise again in the D.C. area.

Starting next week, the Smithsonian will no longer require timed-entry passes to visit most of its museums.

When the pandemic began, the real estate industry was gripped with anxiety about the emptying out of American cities. But in D.C., at least one part of the apartment market is making a comeback.

A coalition of missing-persons advocates, activists and law enforcement officials will gather Sunday at a convenience store in D.C. to renew interest in a high-profile case and encourage the public to better engage the Metropolitan Police…