2021

The District of Columbia thrives on tourism, conventions and business travel — a local industry that has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic.

Zyah Brown, 9, stood in front of the crowd and took the mic.

Abraham Pishevar, a television and radio executive, first left his native Iran to earn his Master’s degree at Catholic University of America in 1976. The next time he returned to Greater Washington, in 1979, he was fleeing threat of…

Organizers with ONE DC and their broader community celebrated the reopening of the new Black Workers and Wellness Center in Anacostia on Saturday. Located on Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. right across from the Anacostia metro station, the…

The Anacostia residents sitting on their porches Saturday morning jumped up, yelped and clamored for selfies as if a celebrity was walking down their block.

When a coronavirus vaccination clinic set up in a nearby school in the Washington suburbs four weeks after her daughter became eligible for a shot, Meghan McCoy did not hesitate to bring in her 13-year-old. It was a familiar setting, close…

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The newly declared federal holiday of Juneteenth dawned on a joyful, if muggy Washington Saturday, with denizens of the nation’s capital braving the heat to mark the moment at Black Lives Matter plaza outside the White House as other…

Across the entire city, more than 70% of the adult population in the District has received at least one COVID-19 vaccination.

A tax revenue windfall from legalized sports betting has yet to become reality in D.C.

When the National Gallery of Art finishes its multistage comeback with Friday’s reopening of its East Building, it will not require fully vaccinated visitors to wear masks, and it will not seek proof of their vaccine status.

On the morning of the museum reopening, Kirk Johnson is almost as excited as the kids lined up outside. “I am just so happy,” says Johnson, the Sant Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. “461 days closed, and…

When D.C. Superior Court Judge Marisa Demeo first applied for a job in the Justice Department in 1993, FBI agents showed up at her parents’ home to confirm that she had come out to them as gay.

Many in DC had Friday off in observation of Juneteenth, and they took advantage of the city's memorials in advance of events planned on Saturday.