2021

The president is the most famous person in D.C. (sorry Ovi), so when he ventures outside his usually insulated orbit, it’s going to draw some semblance of A-list attention.

Le Diplomate, a District institution that’s no stranger to high-profile diners, received some famous visitors on Memorial Day.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s plan to pour more than half a billion dollars into affordable housing isn’t enough to meet the need or halt gentrification in the city, but give her credit for trying.

In the diverse and expansive Washington region, around 40 percent of the roughly 700,000 public school students are learning at least once a week in a school building. The other 420,000 students have been entirely remote since the…

With a year of mostly virtual learning winding down, and fewer than a third of D.C.’s public school students in classrooms part of the week, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) made an ambitious assertion: School buildings are to open full time in…

Thousands of motorcyclists taking part in the Rolling to Remember rally kicked off their ride from RFK Stadium to the National Mall on Sunday. The demonstration began at noon with an estimated 50,000 bikers.

Our family is always flattered when my father, Robert Kennedy, is referenced in current public debates … if the result reflects his essential values. In the recent wrangling over D.C. statehood, however, his 1963 testimony before the House…

Brenda Richardson stood before 31 young men and women in their final weeks of training to become D.C. police officers. They were on a street corner in Richardson’s neighborhood in Southeast Washington, where crews from rival streets trade…

Murmurs from a group-therapy session drifted down the hallway to Carolyn’s small office on the second floor of Regional Addiction Prevention Inc.'s building in Northeast Washington.

President Joe Biden’s budget proposal would give DC a win on abortion rights but leave another key wish unfulfilled.

The D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences (DFS), a once-vaunted crime lab now mired in management woes, will cease its work on criminal investigations while a consultant conducts “a complete assessment of the agency,” with police and…

Washington Teachers’ Union President Elizabeth Davis was intoxicated and speeding on Easter Sunday when she crashed into another driver’s vehicle on April 4, killing both of them, according to a Maryland State Police investigation.

Lawyers for the Justice Department urged a federal judge on Friday to dismiss lawsuits against former president Donald Trump, former attorney general William P. Barr and other officials for last June’s violent clearing of demonstrators…

After last year’s pool season was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, D.C. splashed down to the 2021 pool season from a newly renovated and renamed recreation center in Benning Park.

The Washington Teachers’ Union president was at fault in the crash that killed her and another driver last month, the Maryland State Police said.

Starting this weekend, outdoor pools are reopening for those who want to take a dip, after more than a year of restrictions in aquatic spaces.

D.C. has named a new director for its troubled crime lab. WTOP has learned Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Chris Geldart named Anthony Crispino as the interim director of the Department of Forensic Sciences.

The D.C. government will soon award long-term leases for some of the most valuable vacant land in the city’s portfolio, with the goal of creating a new neighborhood with thousands of residents in the empty space between the Anacostia River…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's proposed fiscal 2022 budget includes $20 million to build a new community center at the Alexander Crummell School property in Ivy City, a major win for neighbors but a move that leaves a private redevelopment…

A housing strike force released a report this month laying out its recommendations for helping DC’s rental housing market recover after more than a year of the COVID-19 pandemic.