2021

For Ty Hobson-Powell, his hometown of D.C. means go-go music, basketball culture, and mumbo sauce. The city is not the monuments or what you see on CNN for natives like him; it’s the Black-owned businesses on U Street, from Ben’s Chili…

Metro officials praised a new report from a panel created to review claims against Transit Police, calling it a boost to the agency’s transparency. But critics argued a lack of detail and the panel’s inability to conduct investigations…

When school buildings closed last March, Tara Brown’s then-12-year-old daughter stopped turning in assignments. Most of her classmates in Southeast Washington didn’t show up to their virtual classes that spring, so she wasn’t socializing…

Georgetown University has struggled all spring to devise a commencement plan that will satisfy the urge of graduating seniors to celebrate in person after a grueling year and the demand of D.C. authorities to protect public health amid the…

"We really want to make sure this idea doesn’t die or people see it as a failure of the system."

A source-of-income complaint that local housing nonprofit Housing Counseling Services and their client, Robert Evans, brought against Bozzuto Management Company ended in a settlement last month.

The U.S. House of Representatives has once again voted on a bill to grant statehood to Washington, D.C., and enfranchise more than 712,000 Americans, a cause that enjoys unprecedented support but still faces an uphill battle in the U.S.…

There’s a basic rule that many political activists accept as given: Before you can convince voters your solution to a problem is the right one, you have to get them to agree there’s a problem in the first place. Which is why those who have…

Owner Bill Duggan is lobbying Mayor Muriel Bowser.

House Democrats pledge to vote on a statehood bill before the summer, providing advocates a possible way forward

For the second time in history, the House passed legislation Thursday to make the District of Columbia the nation’s 51st state, bolstering momentum for a once-illusory goal that has become a pivotal tenet of the Democratic Party’s voting…

Downtown D.C. set all kinds of records in 2020 — and not in a good way.

Officials are shifting their attention to people who have yet to sign up for the vaccine in an effort to reach vaccination levels needed to control the virus.

For the second year in a row, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass the bill that would grant statehood to the District of Columbia.

The auditor report finds that D.C. swiftly implemented more coronavirus policies than nearly anywhere in the country.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A decades-long movement to reshape the American political map took a further step Thursday as the House of Representatives approved a bill to make the nation’s capital the 51st state.

Can a dry, 1,500-page land-use document solve the problem of racial inequity in the District? As the five-year-long debate over the city’s comprehensive plan nears its end, that has become the question D.C. leaders are struggling to…

The long-standing dream of D.C. statehood took one step closer to reality Thursday when the House passed Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s HR 51 bill.

The Metro Board of Directors says the transit system has weathered the pandemic-related financial storm that threatened drastic service cuts, and is looking for financial incentives to lure riders back to the transit system.