2022

Marie Cohen spends a lot of her time on children’s deaths.

An all-night party in Northeast D.C. aims to provide teens with a fun, safe night that keeps them out of trouble.

It’s taken work, but these days, D.C. has one of the lowest infant mortality rates in years. But dig deeper, and you’ll see a stark racial disparity still exists.

When DeNisha and her boyfriend moved into the Park 7 apartments on Minnesota Ave NE, she was only days away from giving birth to her first child. It was March 2020, and the young family was scrambling to settle into their new home as…

Former WBJ reporter and current Loose Lips Alex Koma is also named in the suit.

Howard University moved many classes online amid a rise in COVID-19 infections both on campus and D.C. Multiple local universities have taken extra cautions as the BA.2 omicron subvariant fuels another uptick in cases.

The harassment of a transgender woman named Saoirse Gowan on the Metro this past weekend is part of an uptick in harassment and other crimes against trans and the greater LGBTQ+ community in the past year, according to D.C. community…

Howard University will move its final days of class online amid a rise in COVID-19 cases on campus.

D.C.’s Howard University is moving some classes online as the semester comes to a close and COVID-19 cases on campus and in the District tick up.

DC Health's latest metrics show the District now has a medium COVID-19 community level, meaning a moderate impact on the health care system and moderate levels of disease severity.

Hains Point, one of D.C.’s largest outdoor recreation areas, could get a new transportation setup later this year.

It’s unclear what the Lerner family’s openness to selling the Nationals says about the state of their business empire, but it comes at a time when the industry in which they made their fortune — commercial real estate — faces major…

A lawyer for former D.C. Council member Jack Evans said Wednesday that a long-running federal investigation into Evans’s actions has ended with no criminal charges.

The American Civil Liberties Union of D.C. and the Justice Department announced a settlement on Wednesday to resolve portions of four civil lawsuits sparked by the June 2020 violent and unprovoked clearing of demonstrators from Lafayette…

Longtime local transgender advocates Earline Budd and Jeri Hughes, who have served for more than a decade on the D.C. Department of Corrections’ Transgender Housing and Transgender Advisory committees, say they have witnessed first-hand…

Labor group has clashed with incumbent Muriel E. Bowser during the pandemic

The Justice Department said Wednesday that settlements have been reached in four civil cases after protesters were removed from D.C.’s Lafayette Square during civil rights demonstrations in June 2020.

Nearly two years after the Trump administration ordered racial justice protestors cleared from Lafayette Park ahead of a presidential photo-op in front of a nearby church, the Justice Department announced official changes to federal rules…

Howard University announced today that the school’s president, Wayne A. I. Frederick, will retire by June 2024. Frederick was appointed as interim president in 2013 and has been in the permanent role since 2014. Prior to taking on the…

A D.C. police captain sued the District on Tuesday, alleging he was retaliated against after trying to stop a high-speed pursuit last month that ended with a car overturning on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, causing injuries and…