2021

An employee with the D.C. police department was sentenced Wednesday for illegally giving out personal information on traffic accident victims in exchange for more than $40,000 in cash bribes over a two-year period.

Art lovers who despaired over the closure of D.C.'s art museums during the COVID pandemic can now book a return to their favorite museum.

Foggy Bottom’s first food hall is slated to open later this summer — almost a year after its original debut date.

Five years of contentious debate finally came to an end Tuesday, when members of the D.C. Council unanimously approved changes to the city’s Comprehensive Plan.

Government leaders in Richmond, Annapolis and the District are wrestling with a side effect of the coronavirus pandemic that they did not anticipate: excess revenue.

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson’s efforts to cut into D.C.’s blanket eviction moratorium failed yesterday with an amendment largely backed by the body’s most progressive members.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg joined D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser at the construction site of the new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge on Wednesday. They toured the bridge, and Bowser delivered a speech about the American Jobs…

Nearly 90 former federal prosecutors are asking Attorney General Merrick Garland and the acting U.S. attorney in Washington to abandon a Trump-era policy of charging certain gun crimes in federal court amid concerns about long prison…

The General Services Administration has backed off a plan to move three federal agencies from their decadeslong home after it had sparked back-to-back lawsuits from their current landlord. The GSA filed notice in the U.S. District Court…

Head’s up D.C. — or maybe heads down.

Engaged citizens and government gadflys, take note: while can get a drink in a bar or go into a business in most of the Washington region, it may still be a while longer before you’ll be able to march into a county building or city hall…

Delivery of bill to Congress was held up due to protocols related to Jan. 6 riots

The Kennedy Street corridor is a section of DC that has seen a lot of development action in the past few years, and a new condo project looks to add more residences to the strip.

D.C.-based Eaternity — The Social Restaurant Group, which owns La Vie, Provision 14 and Bar Bao, has signed a lease for a waterfront restaurant at the recently completed RiverPoint apartment building in Buzzard Point.

Howard University plans to stand up a new hub for applied data sciences — and one of its first degrees will be shaped by Amazon Web Services, the school and company told the Washington Business Journal.

In 1966, the United Nations identified adequate housing as a fundamental human right as part of its International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. But, even as early as 1944, in his State of the Union address, with the…

Dr. Yolandra Hancock doesn’t have to read a medical journal to know how soda and other sugar-filled drinks destroy people, young and old, in the African American community and why people of color are disproportionately dying of COVID-19 at…

The DC Council opted Tuesday not to lift DC's moratorium on evictions ahead of a Friday hearing on the city's pandemic recovery.

Some Metrorail workers are ignoring safety rules they don’t agree with.