2021

Metro is testing out a new air filtration system in subway cars that it hopes will help to rebuild public faith in public transit.

Happy Tuesday. In the extraordinary days leading up to the inauguration, Mayor Muriel Bowser has acted as a leading spokesperson for the event and as chief executive of a city under siege.

The Trump era in DC ends in a very similar fashion to the way it began

Veronica McDonald wasn’t going to let multiple sclerosis or a global health crisis stop her from bearing witness to a Black and Asian American woman becoming vice president in the same city where her mom grew up barred from the White side…

Revelations and recriminations in the wake of the January 6 extremist attack on the United States Capitol have burned up news and social media for two weeks now.

Thousands of National Guard troops from across the country descended on D.C. this week to support heightened security measures during the presidential inauguration. They’re staffing security checkpoints, protecting congressional leaders…

Outside Cranes, a fusion restaurant in Penn Quarter, just one day before the presidential inauguration, plywood covered the windows. Signs plastered on top offered passersby a bit of a mixed message: “Please enter. We are open.”

In an ordinary year, a presidential inauguration would bring hundreds of thousands of visitors to the nation’s capital. In an ordinary year, there would be viewing stands and a parade along Pennsylvania Avenue, vendors on every corner,…

Call it Inauguration Day in the Upside Down.

Starting next week, the list of people who can get COVID-19 vaccines in D.C. will expand, despite a supply that has yet to meet an ever-growing demand.

Teachers and support staff at D.C. public and charter schools will start receiving COVID-19 vaccines next week, marking another step forward in the city’s vaccination program.

January 20 marks the beginning of the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris administration. Inauguration, often a day of celebration, was already going to be pared back because of the pandemic. Now, even more restrictions are in effect after threats of…

Downtown D.C. has become so difficult to navigate that Mayor Muriel E. Bowser held her last pre-inauguration news conference Tuesday standing on a median in the middle of a busy road, many blocks from the secure perimeter around the U.S.…

Living in D.C. means having a front-row seat to history as it’s written. Recently, that history has been a wild and sometimes scary one to witness.

Jan. 6 began with Black joy and ended with white hate — a day like too many in our history. I live blocks away from the U.S. Capitol, and I started my morning on Jan. 6 hopeful that the election of two Democratic senators from Georgia…

Residents 65 and older that live in Whiter and wealthier wards are getting vaccinated at a higher rate, new DC Health data shows.

Authorities reversed course Tuesday morning and reopened bridges over the Anacostia River into D.C. ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.