2021

The family who has owned the Cap Liquor store across from Nationals Park (map) for more than two decades is looking to add more housing to the South Capitol Street corridor.

In November, President Biden extended Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding until Apr. 1 to combat COVID-19. The extension allows D.C.’s Pandemic Emergency Program for Medically Vulnerable Individuals (PEP-V) to continue…

The Watkins Elementary School staffer who directed third-graders to reenact scenes from the Holocaust on Friday was convicted of two crimes in New Jersey.

When the pandemic hit, we started giving money to people who needed it — and it helped. Our efforts have worked so well, in fact, that the District of Columbia is building on our model and plans to launch a $1.5 million pilot program for…

The storied former Republic Gardens nightclub where legendary musicians including Cab Calloway and Ella Fitzgerald performed has taken on a new element, or elements, more precisely.

Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors are offering to help teach lessons on the Holocaust at D.C. public schools after outrage erupted over a staff member at Watkins Elementary School allegedly having children reenact atrocities from the…

Two separate fires left a man with serious injuries and four people, including a child, displaced from their homes in D.C. Two more fires were quelled earlier in the day.

More than a dozen schools in D.C. are moving to virtual learning through the start of winter break, citing a surge in COVID-19 cases.

Coronavirus cases surged to new highs in parts of the Washington metropolitan area Tuesday, leading residents on a mad dash to find scarce home-testing kits and causing officials to warn of a need for tighter precautions and more hospital…

Legislation aimed at putting provisions on how D.C. runs its encampment clearing pilot fell short in a delayed council vote, dashing the hopes of those who feel the evictions during hypothermia season are unjust.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday rejected an emergency bill aimed at restricting Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s authority to remove homeless encampments.

Wilson High School, the District’s largest public high school, was open for business as usual on Tuesday, but Brian Smith kept his daughter home.

The D.C. Council voted Tuesday to require eligible District school students to be vaccinated against COVID-19, as cases in the national capital region continue to surge.

The D.C. Council approved new boundaries for the city’s eight wards on Tuesday, sending the decennial redistricting bill to Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) for her signature.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser stood before a crowd outside the Chevy Chase Community Center last Thursday to present her new plan to build more affordable housing west of Rock Creek Park. Just a day before, an official from the Department of…

D.C. is expanding the Health Department’s free coronavirus testing program on Wednesday to include COVID-19 antigen tests that people can pick up to perform at home to get results within 15 minutes.

The Washington Area Community Investment Fund (WACIF) has acquired the Anacostia Arts Center from Arch Development Corp., the new owner told the Washington Business Journal.

The D.C. Council voted Tuesday against a bill that would ban homeless encampment clearings in the city through until the spring, effectively killing legislation that received support from the D.C. attorney general, the ACLU, and at least…

D.C., Maryland, and Virginia all reported record-breaking numbers of new COVID-19 infections on Tuesday as the U.S. grapples with a nationwide case surge.

The General Services Administration has inked another lease near Union Station.