2021

Some parents save for years to help their kids pay for college. Others who are more fortunate may set up trust funds for their children, giving them a head start on financial stability when they become adults.

After more than a year under a strict, 23-hour daily lockdown, roughly 1,500 men and women at the D.C. Jail will be granted two hours outside of their cells — a slight increase over the one hour they’ve been allotted since the pandemic…

A strict lockdown at the D.C. jail has started to ease, but inmates are still being kept in their cells nearly all day as part of an effort to limit the spread of the coronavirus throughout the facility.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday will consider legislation that reserves some new medical marijuana business licenses for people who were previously incarcerated for drug-related offenses — the latest effort by city lawmakers to bolster equity…

D.C. is recovering from a deadly weekend, during which 11 people were shot, including a 7-year-old girl, just as it’s about to kick off its yearly effort to curb summer crime.

Mayor Muriel Bowser released updated mask rules for fully vaccinated people over the weekend after a staff error caused confusion about changes to the face covering mandate.

WASHINGTON — A D.C. pediatrician is recruiting 100 children for a Novavax COVID vaccine clinical trial.

D.C. leaders are reacting to word that the District’s crime lab is now fully unaccredited. While Mayor Muriel Bowser affirms the lab has appealed the decision, the future of lab operations is in question.

The District launched a new website today meant to act as a clearinghouse for residents’ vaccination records from the flu to tetanus and the coronavirus.

D.C. jail inmates, who have been subjected to a strict lockdown since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, are finally getting some relief, though not much: After more than a year of being kept in their cells for 23 hours a day as a…

District officials launched their annual summer crime prevention initiative against the backdrop of a soaring homicide rate and on the heels of a particularly bloody weekend in the city.

Among the five largest universities in the District, GWU is the only to host online-only commencement programs

DC is of course not a state, let alone a country, but Federalist assistant editor Kylee Zempel recently wrote a piece explaining why the “third world country of Washington DC” does not deserve statehood.

D.C. on Monday made public body-camera footage showing an incident where two police cruisers were totaled after officers drag raced them down a residential street in Ward 7.

D.C. police have fired an officer after he and others were accused of racing two marked cruisers on a street in Northeast Washington last month, ending in a crash, authorities said Monday.

A DC flag shirt "is fine." A pro-statehood one "would be an expression of public advocacy on a matter we cover."

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser declined to address confusion Monday over the latest mask mandate to come out of her office over the weekend.

Less than a year since launching their takeout and delivery platform, the team behind DC To-GoGo is taking a break from the service.

“We have a tree speaking to us,” Ana Ka’ahanui said as the seven of us sat on folding camp stools in a clearing in the woods.