2021

Booster shots of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are now available across the region for certain groups, and will likely be doled out in a process that’s free from the supply hiccups the region saw during the initial vaccine phases.

Denise Tyree, a single mother in Washington, D.C., looks for work online most evenings. Scrolling through listings on her laptop, she reads job descriptions, submits applications and sends off resumes for administrative and front desk…

More than a dozen states across the U.S. have already legalized marijuana sales, and later this fall lawmakers in D.C. will start debating whether to join that group.

Days after announcing the loss of a key DC grant, the LGBTQ nonprofit Casa Ruby has met its initial $50,000 fundraising goal on GoFundMe to help keep some shelter beds open.

With the recent closure of the Wendy's at the center of DC's "Dave Thomas Circle" and plans for an upcoming park and accompanying street reconfiguration, the intersection of New York and Florida Avenues NE (map) will look markedly…

After bipartisan police reform talks collapsed in Congress last week, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., and Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., sent letters Monday to President Joe Biden, Capitol Police Board Chair Karen Gibson and Supreme Court…

The founder of a 50-bed Northwest D.C. shelter helping young, homeless LGBTQ+ community members worries it may be forced to close after the abrupt loss of an $850,000 government grant.

Casa Ruby, a non-profit that provides housing, health care, and social services to LGBTQ+ people in D.C., launched a GoFundMe after the city declined to renew funding for one of its youth shelter programs.

Students, faculty and staff have reported nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and stomach cramps.

The zookeepers who usually feed bloodsicles and carcasses to the big cats at the National Zoo are now offering baby food and broth, keeping vigils over the sick animals and checking their coughs.

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) are requesting federal police agencies like the Capitol Police, Supreme Court Police, and others wear body cameras.

Long story short: Someone you’ve never heard of shared a hot take on Twitter, it went viral, and it upset some people.

This month the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB), the region’s lead transportation planning agency, presented two important initial findings from its Climate Change Mitigation Study on what it must do to tackle…

Franklin Park, downtown DC’s largest public park, reopened Friday after a $21 million renovation. The revamped space includes a storm water management system that will capture 100% of the water runoff from the park; a revitalized tree…

A rare mixed-use project in Deanwood has gotten a shot in the arm.

D.C.’s Department of Human Services has decided not to renew a grant for Casa Ruby, a nonprofit dedicated to LGBTQ+ youth, to run an emergency low-barrier shelter for people experiencing homelessness.

Ruby Corado, founder of Casa Ruby, created a GoFundMe page​ to keep open the remaining beds it operates across seven D.C. locations.

Erin Palmer, an advisory neighborhood commissioner in Ward 4, announced she is running to become chairwoman of the D.C. Council.

If you’ve got to call a guy about a thing, you’d better hurry — only half a dozen payphones remain on the streets of D.C.