2021

Destination DC, the tourism marketing arm of the District, has shed light on just how much damage the pandemic has caused to D.C.’s tourism industry, and what they plan to do to bring tourists back this year.

For several weeks toward the end of last year, protesters repeatedly converged on the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Fourth District police station in the aftermath of a police chase that led to Karon Hylton-Brown’s fatal collision…

Mayor Muriel Bowser is now a card-carrying member of the Democratic Governors Association.

May is peak wedding season in D.C. but a new coronavirus order released by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser makes it hard for the happy couple to celebrate. As of May 1, dancing is not allowed at any wedding in the District.

A D.C. police officer injured battling pro-Trump rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 is seeking more recognition for those on the front lines and says he is angered by people who “continue to downplay the events of that day.”

After rescheduling their nuptials twice, Tory Waltrip and her new husband were looking forward to celebrating their union at a June reception in D.C.

District lawmakers are finally nearing the end of what has turned into a five-year process of amending the city’s chief land-use document, the D.C. Comprehensive Plan. So now there’s another question they need to consider: When will they…

The Democratic Governors Association is adding D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to its ranks in a symbolic push for D.C. statehood.

Amid the District’s ongoing push for statehood, Democratic state governors are embracing D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser as one of their own. New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced today that Bowser has been invited to be a member…

You can’t buy happiness but you can take a little piece of it home at no charge this week. Well, a pretty big piece, actually.

Dept. of Health declines to explain abrupt replacement of Kharfen

The Democratic Governors Association on Tuesday welcomed D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser into its ranks, marking the latest effort by Democratic leaders to support making the District the nation’s 51st state.

The native Washingtonian and three-decade veteran of the force is charged with addressing a rise in murders and calls for reform.

Days of unrest followed the shooting of a Salvadoran man at 17th and Lamont streets NW on May 5, 1991.

President Joe Biden continued his patronage of local D.C businesses on Wednesday by popping into Las Gemelas, a taqueria in the Latin American food hall La Cosecha.

The District's tourism marketing organization is gearing up to launch a $2.5 million ad campaign aimed at getting word out that D.C. is open for business after it suspended most promotional efforts during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Months after D.C.’s police force became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, officials are looking at ways to increase immunization rates among its officers.

Last spring, as D.C. and the world struggled to contain the coronavirus pandemic, the 2.3 million sq. ft. Walter E. Washington Convention Center lay empty — no industry conferences, no auto show. Instead, the convention center’s Hall A was…

The Anacostia area is one of those east of the River neighborhoods in DC where development is being hastened by the relocation of city agencies and investments in public infrastructure. The second phase of MLK Gateway is an example of the…