2021

The Washington Post has named longtime journalist Sally Buzbee of the Associated Press as its executive editor, marking the first time a woman has been appointed to lead the 143-year-old news organization.

D.C. nonprofit Bread for the City’s massive new center on Good Hope Road is nearly complete and staffers are getting excited to hang up the sign out front: “The Michelle Obama Southeast Center of Bread for the City.”

DC will take a giant step toward reopening on May 21 when it allows restaurants and most other businesses to operate at full capacity and bars and nightclubs at 50% capacity.

There is no room left for debate: the nearly 700,000 residents of the District of Columbia deserve statehood. In fact, for the purposes of thousands of federal laws, Washington, D.C., already acts as a state, and they perform those…

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Howard University in Washington, D.C., is the nation's only historically Black university with a classics department, but it provoked criticism last month when it was reported that school officials had decided to eliminate the department. …

The highly anticipated sci-fi art installation Meow Wolf will not open a fourth location at the Art Place at Fort Totten.

D.C. plans to lift a slew of coronavirus capacity restrictions starting May 21, with a full reopening to come in June.

Starting May 21, there will be no capacity restrictions on restaurants. Taverns and nightclubs can increase indoor capacity from 25 to 50 percent.

The troubled United Medical Center is set to close in 2023 to make way for a new facility at St. Elizabeths campus. In the meantime, UMC remains the only hospital in Ward 8, and it faces an uncertain future.

A current and a former D.C. police officer accused of racing two marked cruisers that crashed on a street in Northeast Washington have been charged with reckless driving and other traffic offenses, according to court records.

Two D.C. police officers under investigation for totaling two cruisers in an apparent street race last month have been identified and charged, according to court documents.

The public can once again return to Lafayette Square near the White House.

Amid a drop in COVID-19 cases and calls to reopen, the mayor announced that all capacity limits will lift by June 11.

The tall metal fence that has surrounded Lafayette Square for nearly a year opened Monday morning — to the delight of tourists and relief of D.C. residents, who took cautious steps forward into the center of the park.

Coronavirus cases are plummeting across the D.C. region, as jurisdictions look towards returning to a somewhat normal summer.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lafayette Square, the park across from the White House, reopened Monday to the public nearly a year after federal authorities fenced off the area at the height of nationwide protests over policing following the killing of…

Restrictions on bars and nightclubs, large entertainment venues and sports arenas will remain in place another three weeks, but will be lifted June 11, Bowser said at a news conference.