2021

It was almost 20 months ago that the COVID-19 pandemic forced the D.C. Council into a new world of virtual hearings and votes, but now lawmakers say it’s time to return to the Wilson Building in person. And while many of the details of how…

Yesterday's announcement of stepped-up police enforcement around selected school zones drew flak from a number of school and traffic safety advocates who had hoped for more in response to recent traffic fatalities.

Aldo Richardson, 61, better known as “Al,” signed up to serve in the Army Reserves shortly after high school. Born in East St. Louis, Missouri, but raised in Chicago, he attended Carpenter Elementary School and William H. Wells High…

The violence interruption program Cure the Streets will expand next year to four D.C. neighborhood areas to address gun violence.

As the District closes a deadly year, D.C.’s top prosecutor says he’s ready to expand a violence-prevention program into four new neighborhoods.

Over the past year, D.C. officials have embraced protest tourism as they try to bring back office workers and attract international visitors

The New York Times published a distressing dispatch from the Smithsonian on Thanksgiving last week, saying that due to climate change, the museums’ collections are “extremely vulnerable to flooding, and some could eventually be…

Cure the Streets, a D.C. based violence interruption program run through the Office of the Attorney General, will expand to four additional neighborhoods next spring. The expansion, facilitated by a significant increase in city funding for…

D.C. leaders are pleading with the public to turn in illegal guns after a toddler was shot and killed in Southeast last week.

D.C. police will increase traffic safety patrols around certain schools in the city, so that they can stop drivers who speed or run red lights or stop signs near school buildings, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Monday.

D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department will dispatch officers to school zones throughout the District in hope of improving drivers’ behavior when they are near kids.

For more than five years, I’ve advocated for improvements to DC’s plans for Dave Thomas Circle so that they would better serve the needs of local residents, pedestrians, and cyclists. On November 15, the District Department of…

D.C.'s Ward 5, one of the fastest-growing areas of Washington, sometimes seems split between old and new.

As the entertainment and fashion worlds mourn the loss of fashion-designer and author Virgil Abloh, a D.C. bookstore is remembering his act of generosity earlier this year.

Several D.C. lawmakers want to press pause on the award of a nearly $70 million advertising contract from the D.C. Lottery that had previously attracted a protest by its losing bidder.

Ice, ice, baby: It’s skating season, and Washington’s rinks — many of which went dark last year — are open once again. Here’s a guide to where to get your glide on.