2022

The Senate is gearing up to address the "vacancy crisis" highlighted by the DC Courts and local officials as hampering the interests of public safety and justice.

On Wednesday, I will participate in D.C.'s “point in time” count — the annual census of people experiencing homelessness in our city. Mandated by the federal government, the count offers a snapshot of residents living on the streets and in…

D.C. police officer Jeffrey Smith died by suicide in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection, an act his family believes was the result of injuries he received when he took a blow to the head with a crowbar, or similar object, as he…

The pups are a part of a support team of the D.C. Fire and EMS Department and the local firefighters union.

More than nine months after the D.C. crime lab lost its accreditation to perform forensic casework, the amount of DNA evidence from D.C. crimes uploaded to a national database — which can be used to link crimes and identify unknown…

The nation’s capital will once again be awash in the aura of an electrifying Kennedy this weekend.

The Smithsonian Institution has tapped Cynthia Chavez Lamar to become the director of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., which has one of the largest collections of Native and Indigenous items in the world.

Harry Thomas Jr., who ended his comeback bid for the Ward 5 D.C. Council seat this week, said he is considering endorsing a former D.C. government staffer in the highly competitive contest.

Here is a sampling of headlines from our editorials in 2015 and 2016, just before and as Paul J. Wiedefeld became general manager of Metro, the Washington area’s transit system:

The former Ward 5 councilmember dropped out of the race for his old seat and announced a run to join D.C.’s shadow delegation.

In spite of the omicron surge, the Washington Auto Show is getting underway.

Chef Nick Stefanelli and his Creative Food Group are nearly ready to take the wraps off their newest D.C. restaurant, Philotimo, after delays tied to the Covid-19 pandemic set back the full-service Greek restaurant's opening from its…

After a few years of thinking about a move, Salvation Army is poised to let go of its home on the West End.

As more D.C. property owners consider converting older office buildings to residential use, they're finding the city has a clear advantage — and also a clear setback.

DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is vowing to defeat a bill introduced this week by Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and five Republican colleagues that would repeal the District's COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

The dramatic upswing in COVID-19 cases that briefly made our region the epicenter of the Omicron surge is now rapidly abating.

Tabatha Knight and Leslie Clark were leaving the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice in October 2019 when a staffer caught up with them.

Meet the people who keep the ordinary and extraordinary parts of D.C. running.