2021

The DC Central Kitchen’s mission to fight hunger and create jobs has kicked up a notch.

The D.C. Council is planning to introduce legislation that would expand access to virtual learning, potentially setting up a showdown with the mayor, who has remained firm that she wants nearly all students in physical classrooms across…

D.C. officials in fiscal 2020 misspent nearly $82 million of affordable housing funds earmarked for extremely low-income residents, according to a new report from the Office of the Inspector General.

Ruby Corado, the founder and executive director of Casa Ruby, a shelter for LGBTQ youth, resigned Friday morning, a week after the D.C. Department of Human Services said it would not renew an $850,000 grant to the nonprofit.

John A. Terry, a Washington lawyer and judge who served decades on the D.C. Court of Appeals and earlier spent 13 years as chief of the appellate division of the U.S. attorney’s office, died Sept. 5 at a health-care facility in Bethesda,…

District leaders, struggling to curtail deadly gun violence, are extending a summer crime prevention initiative into the fall, hoping to keep heightened police attention focused on neighborhoods where residents feel besieged by crime.

Bowser joined the social media app on Thursday.

Tomorrow, we take to the streets.

Grand pianos, commercial dough mixers, and even a Ford F-250 pickup truck are among the items to be sold at auction later this month as the owner of the former Marriott Wardman Park in Northwest D.C. moves ahead with its court-approved…

A group of Republican lawmakers is criticizing D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser over her “failure” to address what they say are surging violent crime and homelessness problems in the nation’s capital.

The unit in the West End had been on the market since April.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is funding a new program designed to increase diversity in health tech through partnerships with multiple universities, including several in Greater Washington.

One member of the D.C. Council questioned why the city has a religious exemption in place for COVID-19 vaccines Friday.

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson has requested that the council consider an internal resolution during next week’s legislative session that would require all councilmembers and their staff to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 31, or face…

George Washington University’s physicians, practitioners, and medical faculty will be providing staffing at the new hospital at St. Elizabeths East and two new urgent care facilities opening in wards 7 and 8, Mayor Muriel Bowser and…

There is no guarantee, but the weather’s supposed to be fine when the Women’s March kicks off Saturday morning at Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington. And I certainly don’t know how many participants will be on hand. But I can promise…

The lions and tigers at the Smithsonian National Zoo that contracted COVID-19 last month are improving, but the great cats are now being treated for secondary bacterial pneumonia, the zoo said.

Another piece of the plan for a new community hospital in D.C.'s Ward 8 just snapped into place: the clinical team.

D.C. developers have been waiting for years for another chance to win a piece of the city’s main affordable housing loan fund — and now, the opportunity is larger than ever before.

This pandemic has been especially hard for Black folks in Washington. We have lost our jobs, gotten sicker and died at higher rates than other residents.