2021

As D.C. emerges from a year and a half of pandemic-induced lockdown, changes are likely coming to the city’s patchwork of safety net provisions that have protected vulnerable residents since the health crisis began.

After a competitive, monthslong search process, WAMU has hired Erika Pulley-Hayes to lead the station as its new general manager. Pulley-Hayes, president and CEO of Community Communications, Inc., an NPR affiliate in Orlando, Florida, will…

After a celebratory weekend in DC as the fencing around the U.S. Capitol came down, the appropriations bill that will determine emergency spending on security upgrades there is the subject of partisan bickering in the Senate.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are proposing $3.7 billion in emergency spending to bolster security at the Capitol, repay outstanding debts from the Jan. 6 insurrection and help the federal government defray costs from the COVID-19…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and other urban leaders met with President Joe Biden at the White House on Monday to discuss efforts to prevent gun violence.

What a difference a shocking building collapse makes in the finely tuned political minds of the Bowser administration. Only seven months ago, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) was praising her Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs…

After years of canal restoration, mule-drawn passenger rides on the boat aren't that far off.

A mother of three who styled hair in her apartment in Southeast Washington. A football player and student studying for his master’s degree at a Maryland university. A 45-year-old man from Silver Spring.

Those northeastern gusts of wind y’all felt over the weekend? Those were about 10 to 15 knots of exhale.

Ten months after heavy rains flooded Northeast D.C. homes with raw sewage, some residents are still trying to rebuild.

D.C. Council to vote on a phased approach to the end of the eviction ban on Tuesday.

D.C. will pay $220,000 in legal fees after it lost a court battle last year with Capitol Hill Baptist Church over COVID-19 gathering restrictions.

How can a small nonprofit afford space in one of D.C.’s rapidly redeveloping neighborhoods? It all comes down to ownership.

The Washington Monument is expected to reopen Wednesday after a six-month closure because of the pandemic.

The Washington Monument will reopen this Wednesday after a six-month closure, according to the National Park Service.

In light of last month's tragic building collapse near the Florida coast, and another dangerous collapse of an under-construction building on Kennedy Street in DC earlier this month, DC's Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs…

Slice & Pie and Lucy, from the team behind Franklin Hall and Penn Social, should open on 14th Street NW in early October.