2021

WASHINGTON - It was music to their ears, as for the first time in a year, young musicians with the D.C. Youth Orchestra Program came together to play music outside and in-person.

Metro will update its safety and emergency protocols following a March incident in D.C. involving a mechanical issue that left passengers stranded for over an hour on its rail system.

Metro on Saturday began to require its employees to trigger a full emergency response when a passenger train, bus or MetroAccess car breaks down in light of safety and reporting failures that officials said occurred last month, including…

In 2017, Mélisande Short-Colomb, then a 63-year-old chef from New Orleans, enrolled as a freshman at Georgetown University. And that wasn’t even the really unusual part. How she came to matriculate unravels a tale that binds her, her…

If President Biden doesn’t take notice of his case, Tony Lewis Sr. could die in prison.

A driver struck and killed a bicyclist in a crash that involved four vehicles in Northwest D.C. on Friday night, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

The project that proposed temporarily widening large portions of Georgetown’s sidewalks is getting underway.

D.C. police are partnering with Howard University to hold public listening sessions to improve relationships with residents amid efforts to de-emphasize arrests and pursue a public health approach to fighting crime.

A congested commuter thoroughfare in Northwest Washington is slated for a reduction in vehicle capacity, part of a transformation that pits neighborhood residents against suburban drivers who could face longer trips to work.

Fans will be able to return to Capital One Arena — at a much-reduced capacity — under new guidelines released by DC government Friday.

The District would increase education spending by at least 3.6 percent per student for the upcoming academic year even as the city faces pandemic-induced budget constraints, according to a proposal released by Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D)…

The D.C. health department said Friday that it would publish translated versions of the city’s coronavirus vaccine registration website this weekend, after advocates for immigrants accused the city of violating local law by providing…

Carless shoppers in Southeast D.C. navigate a separate and unequal food system under strain.

Next week will commemorate the 173rd anniversary of one of the most courageous acts in antebellum America that most Americans have never heard of. It occurred here in the nation’s capital on April 15, 1848.

Some sports fans will soon be able to return to Capital One Arena for Washington Capitals and Wizards games, after D.C. officials approved a waiver request from Monumental Sports and Entertainment to operate the indoor arena at 10%…

D.C. police is teaming up with Howard University for a series of listening sessions in hopes of improving relations between police and the communities they serve.

Black Entertainment Television's former D.C. campus is being offered for sale, nearly four years after its parent company announced plans to move the network's headquarters to New York.

The D.C. government will allow the Washington Capitals and Wizards to host fans indoors for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, effective immediately.

A limited number of fans can return to Capital One Arena for Washington Wizards and Capitals games, District officials said Friday, and the Washington Nationals and D.C. United can increase capacity at their venues.

Howard University is looking for developers to help it make some more big changes to the southwest portion of its D.C. campus, starting with a new 90-foot-tall building.