2021

Capital One Arena’s permanent sportsbook, the first to open inside a professional sports facility in the U.S., is officially open for business, a development that Monumental Sports & Entertainment CEO Ted Leonsis hailed as a “first…

After closing because of the pandemic in March 2020, the Smithsonian is preparing to reopen all of its museums by the end of the summer.

Howard University is renaming its College of Fine Arts after one of its most acclaimed alums: actor Chadwick Boseman.

After reopening seven museums and the National Zoo earlier this month, the Smithsonian will welcome visitors to the popular National Museum of Natural History and nine other sites over a span of 11 weeks beginning June 10, officials…

Black residents in D.C. now account for eight out of every 10 coronavirus cases, according to data from the District’s health department.

And how wages and salaries are actually changing

The writer partly based the novel on her own experiences.

Studio Theatre is undergoing major renovations at its Logan Circle space, bringing in a new café vendor and modernizing its technology and infrastructure ahead of its next season, when it plans to welcome audiences back for live shows. The…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that “D.C. statehood is an idea whose time has come,” and several Democrats lined up on the floor of the upper chamber to argue for making the District the nation’s 51st state.

The pandemic’s racial disparity has widened in DC, where more than 80% of people newly infected with the coronavirus are Black residents.

Charles I. Cassell, an architect who helped shape the campus of the University of the District of Columbia and spent years rallying support for D.C. to become the country’s 51st state, died May 17 at a retirement facility in Washington. He…

Democratic senators used the chamber floor Tuesday afternoon to argue for statehood for the District of Columbia, giving advocates a boost even as the effort faces a lack of votes and an uncertain future.

On a warm Saturday evening, Minnie Elliott, 83, sat with children on folding chairs outside her Brookland Manor apartment in Northeast Washington. They were waiting to watch a documentary called “What Happened 2 Chocolate City.”

Black people make up more than 80 percent of coronavirus cases reported in the District in recent days, compared with 46 percent late last year, a disparity that D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) highlighted in a call with Ward 8 community…

An independent review backs a D.C. police finding that an officer’s fatal shooting of a young man in September was justified but says mistakes made by police before the deadly encounter unnecessarily put officers and the suspect in danger.…

Water has returned to the section of the C&O Canal that runs through Georgetown in D.C.