2021

The department lost its accreditation in May and recently came under fire for alleged policies in its crime lab’s quality-control system.

The National Park Service on Friday cleared a homeless encampment located on a small parcel of federal land at 3rd Street and Massachusetts Avenue NE, drawing criticisms from homeless advocates who say the effort amounts to little more…

The upcoming political season in the District could well become a seminal one. The old narrative, adopted nearly five decades ago with the advent of home rule — that this town is politically under the thumb of Black, mostly male Democratic…

Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners is pursuing a big new mixed-use project across the street from The Wharf — and it’s willing to embrace a strategy that’s spooked many other developers to make it happen.

D.C. has seen a significant jump in vaccination rates among emergency personnel, according to city officials.

Not all new apartment development is new construction, and a report says D.C. is the No. 2 city for apartment conversions, topped only by Philadelphia.

Could you use a good laugh after the heaviness of the past 18 months?

As it turns out, Mayor Muriel Bowser didn't actually ask the governors of Maryland and Virginia to adopt a reciprocity policy for traffic camera tickets so that their residents would be more likely to pay their fines and take DC traffic…

Legislation aimed at placing guidelines in D.C. around recent rule changes from the NCAA, which allow college student-athletes to be paid for endorsements or publicity deals, has been unveiled by six council members.

Excited at the possibility of having his 4- and 6-year-old kids’ return to a classroom after months of virtual classes, parent Mark Histed, of Ward 1 in D.C., decided to have the pair attend school in-person for the 2021-22 school year.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced plans to spend an additional $22 million to support COVID-19 mitigation measures in city schools on Thursday, an initiative that also creates a position in each school for someone to oversee…

The LGBTQ nonprofit Supporting and Mentoring Youth Advocates and Leaders (SMYAL) began providing free mental health counseling to young and queer trans people this week at its Eastern Market location.

The hundreds of millions of dollars intended to help struggling renters in the District pay overdue bills and avert eviction amid the pandemic is running out so quickly that the city will stop accepting applications for aid on Oct. 27.

D.C. Council member Charles Allen said he is considering rewriting the legislation that formed the District’s independent crime lab, and the D.C. Attorney General’s Office and federal prosecutors are making plans to launch reviews of past…

The shuttered Fletcher-Johnson Middle School and Recreation Center located in the Marshall Heights neighborhood of southeast Washington remains in the early stages of its transformation to a mixed-used development, Mayor Bowser’s project…

In efforts to reduce food insecurity, a prevailing problem in several D.C. communities, Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Southeast recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the expansion of its highly touted…

As community members rally around a father and his two daughters severely injured after being hit in a crosswalk while on their way to school, the D.C. Department of Transportation (DDOT) continues to receive criticism for its inadequate…

As states continue to implement a federal child welfare reform law, local organizers have joined a national movement to compel local and state child welfare agencies to stop the removal of children from homes that could benefit from…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser never reached out to the governors of Virginia and Maryland to negotiate reciprocity for automated traffic camera tickets, despite a District government report — signed by the mayor and submitted to the D.C.…