2021

The restaurateurs sent shockwaves through DC when they announced the closure of seven spots last fall

D.C.’s vaccine registration website once again sparked frustration for users on Friday, despite assurances from the city’s chief technology officer that issues related to heavy traffic to the portal were resolved.

I am an 83-year-old great-great-grandmother and president of the Brookland Manor/Brentwood Village Residents Association. As a civil rights activist, I marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and in the years since, I’ve organized…

D.C.’s public school system has welcomed back thousands of students to its classrooms in recent weeks, but that only accounts for about 20% of its overall student population.

The Bowser administration has not yet chosen a vendor for its vaccine pre-registration system that is scheduled to launch next week, a DC official said at an oversight hearing late Thursday.

At least four prominent D.C. LGBTQ organizations, including the D.C. Center for the LGBT Community, are working on plans to seek D.C. government support for the purchase of a building in which more of the city’s LGBTQ groups can share…

Building Blocks DC Feted as Innovative But Criticized as Lacking

U.S. Capitol Police have requested a 60-day extension of some of the 5,200 National Guard members activated in the District in response to security threats and the Jan. 6 assault on Congress, opening the door to a military presence in the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Worried about continuing threats, the acting chief of the U.S. Capitol Police appealed to congressional leaders Thursday to use their influence to keep National Guard troops at the Capitol, two months after the law…

A member of the commission that advises House Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) on judicial nominations has resigned after making an antisemitic remark about a candidate for the federal bench.

The District’s top private schools are able to offer more classroom instruction in the upper grades than public schools because they are not bound by the same health guidelines, frustrating some public school parents whose children are not…

While all 50 states have reinstated some high school sports, D.C. hasn’t. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday announced that will change in two weeks with a “tentative plan” to return teens to practice, but some think the lifting of the…

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Johnnie Scott Rice later apologized in an email to the commission.

The last few weeks of technical difficulties with vaccinate.dc.gov eclipsed the good news.

WHERE IT concerns the safety of the Washington area’s Metrorail system, there have been so many red flashing lights in recent years — mishaps involving fatalities and injuries, as well as blistering reports from the transit system’s…

On the day when former President Donald Trump’s most delusional supporters swore he would return to power — and the House suspended its business because of supposed threats to the U.S. Capitol — Washington looked on Thursday morning much…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Capitol Police have requested that members of the National Guard continue to provide security at the U.S. Capitol for another two months, The Associated Press has learned. Defense officials say the new proposal is…

Now with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the mix, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said all teachers and staff working for a school or child care facility, including those who aren’t teaching in person, will be eligible to preregister for a…

D.C. officials offered little information Thursday about who will get vaccinated first under the city’s new centralized preregistration system, while Maryland leaders discussed strengthening efforts to make sure Black residents have access…