2021

The embattled D.C. crime lab, already under investigation for its handling of a ballistics error in a murder case, has had its accreditation to perform forensic testing temporarily yanked.

Less affluent communities have been burdened by food insecurity during the pandemic, but area baseball fans have been working to make a small impact in one D.C. neighborhood.

Washington would have looked a lot different if Franklin Webster Smith had had his way.

Twenty U.S. states have now opened vaccine registration to any person over 16 who wants a shot — but the D.C. region is still waiting.

An entrepreneur who conceived of a bar and sportsbook just blocks from the Capitol Building plans to look for a new location.

On Friday afternoon, WaPo published a story that for a time seemed to throw into question the city’s vaccine rollout.

Anthony clapped when he spotted his friend, Edward, leaving the Friday morning coronavirus vaccine clinic at the D.C. nonprofit So Others Might Eat, and congratulated him on overcoming weeks of uncertainty to get the shot.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser appointed Amber Hewitt to be the city’s first chief equity officer Friday.

The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia on March 31 released a two-page fact sheet showing that in the year 2020 its office had prosecuted just seven out of 42 bias-related arrests made by D.C. police as a…

Education advocates are urging D.C. officials to keep the current staffing levels in D.C. Public Schools, after a budget analysis found that 90 teaching positions might need to be cut.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Capitol Police officer was killed Friday after a man rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol and then emerged wielding a knife. It was the second line-of-duty death this year for a…

A U.S. Capitol Police officer was killed and another officer was injured after a knife-wielding man rammed his car into the officers near a Capitol Hill security barricade Friday afternoon, authorities said.

A U.S. Capitol Police officer was killed, and a second officer was injured, after being rammed by a vehicle at the U.S. Capitol security perimeter on Friday afternoon

One Capitol police officer was killed and another injured Friday when a vehicle rammed into them near the U.S. Capitol, an attack that once again put the city on edge as threats stemming from the deadly insurrection in January had started…

The Tidal Basin is sinking. The cherry trees are under water. Now preservationists have tapped landscape architecture firms to plot out their future.

D.C. coronavirus cases have plateaued. Experts advise the public to keep masking.

D.C. lawmakers next week will consider allowing the first evictions since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, perhaps letting landlords evict tenants they deem dangerous to their neighbors.

A former leader of a health advocacy organization was appointed to head a newly-created office in the D.C. government dedicated to racial equity initiatives.

DC's go-go music and culture has always had a close relationship with people and places in the area, even as the music and its fans have been battling displacement from their figurative and literal homes over the past two decades.

Houses of worship and nonprofit organizations in D.C. can now apply for federal security grant funds to help make their buildings safer.