2021

Older Black Washingtonians face a host of health challenges compared with their white peers — chronic disease, lower life expectancy, longer travel times to health providers, and worse outcomes when they get there.

The outdoor athletic fields around the National Mall in D.C. will reopen on July 8, the National Park Service announced Tuesday.

Supporters of legislation to make D.C. the nation’s 51st state testified on Tuesday at a rare U.S. Senate committee hearing on the issue.

Uber Eats will now highlight price differences from restaurants, DC’s AG says

WASHINGTON (AP) — Proponents of statehood for Washington, D.C., vowed Tuesday to keep pushing even though the prospects were dim as the bill began working its way through the Senate.

D.C. statehood proponents sought Tuesday to counter arguments that the idea is unconstitutional, urging a Senate committee to fulfill America’s founding principle of no taxation without representation in the nation’s capital.

Events D.C., the operator of the District’s convention center and several of its sports venues, has secured $5.25 million in federal relief funding through the Paycheck Protection Program to weather the pandemic’s effects and replenish its…

More than two years after D.C. lawmakers overturned a ballot initiative that would have required employers to pay a higher base salary to tipped workers, a local restaurant worker is reviving the effort.

A large majority of D.C. voters support raising taxes on big corporations and higher-income residents to help bankroll the city’s recovery and other goals.

A federal judge has dismissed multiple claims filed by protesters and civil liberties groups after law enforcement forcefully cleared demonstrators from Lafayette Square Park ahead of Donald Trump’s infamous photo-op at St. John’s…

Statehood has never had this much support in the chamber before.

Supporters of legislation to make D.C. the nation’s 51st state testified on Tuesday at a rare U.S. Senate committee hearing on the issue.

One of the penthouse units of the luxurious residences at The Ritz-Carlton in the West End has sold.