2021

The District will be getting some new pedestrian bridges soon including a replacement for the one that collapsed over D.C. 295 last month.

The previous bridge, which was 65 years old, was deemed to be in poor condition in its most recent inspection

D.C. Superior Court is offering a chance for people with misdemeanor bench warrants to clear them up at home.

Before the coronavirus forced businesses to shut down, Raina Moreno, 31, was making $15 an hour as a domestic worker. But that money quickly stopped coming in once the coronavirus began to spread in the District.

Norman Bernstein, a Washington real estate developer and philanthropist who championed Jewish causes and housing desegregation, encouraging local property owners to open their apartment buildings to African Americans in the early 1960s,…

At least 17,000 more people moved out of DC during the pandemic than in the year before, a new analysis suggests.

D.C. updated its mask policy inside its government buildings, which will take effect next week.

Nearly half a century ago, a story in Catholic University’s student newspaper described a “precious gift” bestowed on the school by Oscar-winning actress Mercedes McCambridge, then an artist-in-residence in the university’s drama…

Vibrant energy filled the Woodland Terrace community on Wednesday as children from the area clambered over obstacle courses, ate burgers and fried fish, got their faces painted, and chalked the sidewalks as a part of Woodland’s first…

As Shekita McBroom walked down the church aisle in Southeast Washington toward her daughter’s body, mourners could see signs of Jayla McBroom’s youth throughout the sanctuary.

D.C.’s Ward 8 just became a bit more colorful.

An update to the Comprehensive Plan, DC’s overarching planning document that guides growth and development in the District, is moving through the legislative process after Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the bill Wednesday.

The District of Columbia won’t enforce “current or future” restrictions on worship services of the Capitol Hill Baptist Church, or CHBC, settling a federal lawsuit the congregation filed in September 2020 alleging unfair treatment during…

The little girl celebrated her sixth birthday silently, on life support — something no child should ever have to experience.

A report released yesterday by the D.C. Auditor found that a company which stands to receive nearly $110 million over the five year contract has only two employees and “it is clear VSC did not and cannot perform the work outlined in the…

A new report released on Thursday sheds light on how many people left DC during the pandemic.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is backing away from a plan to delay redevelopment of the Park Morton public housing complex in the face of staunch opposition.

The unexplained deaths of large numbers of birds in the D.C. area and elsewhere over the past month and a half appear to be on the wane, but scientists are still urging people to be cautious about safety.

For 17 years, a federally funded K-12 scholarship program has given thousands of poor children in D.C. the opportunity to attend private schools and the chance to go on to college. And for many of those 17 years, the program has been in…