2021

Travelers are returning to hotels, and the hotel industry as a whole is beginning to recover. But the stabilization is not across the board.

D.C. will enhance its safety reviews of commercial property in the District — as well as filing requirements for building owners — in light of recent high-profile building collapses, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Friday.

D.C. marked a grim milestone on Friday, with the city seeing its 100th homicide. It represents an accelerated pace of homicides from previous years.

WASHINGTON (7News) — A long line of people waited to receive in-person services at the DC DMV Sunday afternoon.

Just weeks ago, Mayor Muriel Bowser was on national TV trying to pinpoint causes and solutions to the surge in deadly violence.

Child care is becoming one of the major flash points in the D.C. Council’s ongoing budget negotiations, as advocates ask the city to spend tens of millions more on subsidizing the high cost of day care for the city’s neediest parents.

For Sung-ha Jou, a 44-year-old Air Force veteran, one disaster kept leading to the next during the coronavirus pandemic. He lost his job during the early weeks of the pandemic, then eventually his home, his van and his other sources of…

The recent growth at Howard University comes a few years after students waged a nine-day protest over conditions at the school and called for their president’s resignation

Responding to a knock, Cheyenne Harris cracked open the front door of her Fort Davis Park home and peeked outside to find two people in bright green work vests.

The scene at the East Front of the Capitol on Saturday morning was quietly joyful: people wandering around the stone plaza in the breeze, tourists snapping selfies, dog walkers towed by their pets, a little girl learning to ride a bike, a…

The word “book” doesn’t quite capture what St. Clair Detrick-Jules has spent the past four years trying to complete.

Outside an apartment building in Northwest Washington, volunteers propped their laptops open and began to help tenants apply for STAY DC, an emergency rent relief program that has been heralded as a lifeline for those who have fallen…

The District upped its safety review standards for multifamily and commercial properties on Friday, following the recent collapse of a building under construction in Northwest Washington.

WASHINGTON (AP) — With the surprise twin hiring of two of the country’s most prominent writers on race, Howard University is positioning itself as one of the primary centers of Black academic thought just as America struggles through a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — With the surprise twin hiring of two of the country’s most prominent writers on race, Howard University is positioning itself as one of the primary centers of Black academic thought just as America struggles through a…

The metal fencing and concrete barriers that encircled the Capitol after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the complex on Jan. 6. gave way Saturday to an open plaza filled with families lounging on picnic blankets, dogs on leashes and…

D.C’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs added several enhancements to building safety review on Friday.