2022

The D.C. Public Library System is seeking approval from local authorities to drastically renovate the nearly 100-year old Southeast Neighborhood Library, the branch near Eastern Market in Capitol Hill.

The D.C. Public Library’s Board of Trustees voted this week to name the main auditorium in the renovated Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library after Amazon co-founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos.

Good news, D.C. museumheads: The National Geographic Museum is reopening on Feb. 16 after being closed for nearly two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And for the month of February, the museum will be offering free admission to any…

Mayor Muriel Bowser is seeking to use eminent domain to revive a long-dormant mixed-use project along East Capitol Street in Ward 7 and ensure it includes a full-service grocery store.

Employees at three Union Kitchen stores in D.C. filed union petitions with the National Labor Relations Board Thursday, becoming the latest local chain to organize for better working conditions.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled a plan Thursday she says will bring a new grocery store to a long-vacant plot of land on the eastern edge of the city, where few fresh food options currently exist.

Washington is well known for its multitude of memorials, a vast portfolio that includes tributes to the likes of Jefferson and Lincoln, veterans of World War II, the passengers who perished on the Titanic and even Sonny Bono.

Many cities opted out of the process in 2021. This year’s will be the first to capture the impact of the pandemic on homelessness nationwide.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is proposing to use eminent domain to forcibly advance the stalled Capitol Gateway Marketplace project in Ward 7, a development dealt a near lethal blow six years ago when Walmart backed out of a deal to open…

Mandate extensions should help keep area cases trending downward, experts say

An H Street restaurant that has repeatedly violated D.C.'s mask and vaccine mandates may have its liquor license yanked this week.

The local party is launching an internal investigation of its communications director as questions swirl about his work with a teachers’ union faction.

On Wednesday, volunteers throughout D.C. and the region hustled to facilitate the annual point-in-time (PIT) count. The survey, which is mandated by the federal government, aims to count the number of people experiencing homelessness both…

Almost as quickly as it began, omicron’s surge appears to be waning in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.

D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee said at a briefing Thursday that juvenile crime in the District is still a serious concern and called for more accountability.

On Wednesday, the Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board voted to draft a summary suspension notice for The Big Board, a bar on H Street NE that has received multiple warnings and citations for violating Mayor Muriel Bowser’s mask and…