2022

The pace of new COVID-19 cases continues to drop in the District by various measures, although community transmission remains high and the climbing death rate is approaching the numbers seen one year ago.

D.C.’s Black mortgage applicants are denied at almost three times the rate of white applicants.

A bill passed by the D.C. Council on Tuesday will require public schools to notify parents if a student in their child’s class has tested positive for COVID-19 within 24 hours.

Hundreds of people participated in a Peace Walk in Ward 8 with the family of Martin Luther King III on Jan. 17, the official holiday of his father, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to call on the U.S. Senate to pass voting rights and…

D.C.-area Democrats on Capitol Hill hope again to remove the name of a segregationist from Chevy Chase Circle: Francis Newlands.

Harry Thomas Jr. has dropped out of the Ward 5 council race and will instead run for shadow representative for D.C. in the U.S. House of Representatives, he said Tuesday evening.

The first weekend of D.C.'s new vaccination requirement to enter bars, restaurants and other indoor businesses ended with only one business citywide reported for not enforcing the new rule.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser on Tuesday announced plans to open eight centers — one in each ward — for residents seeking coronavirus vaccinations and tests, as the regional death rate increases and more places consider vaccine mandates.

D.C. public schools will be required to notify parents within 24 hours if any student in their child’s classroom tests positive for the coronavirus, under new legislation passed by the D.C. Council on Tuesday.

In Washington DC, the digital gap has been a longstanding challenge. A quarter of DC households do not have broadband internet connections, with those numbers being over 35% in wards 5, 7, and 8, wards with predominantly Black populations.…

Sens. Chris Van Hollen (D) and Ben Cardin (D) of Maryland introduced legislation Tuesday that would remove a white-supremacist senator’s name from Chevy Chase Circle, in the exclusive, wealthy neighborhood he founded more than a century…

After six years on the job, Metro General Manager and CEO Paul Wiedefeld is retiring, Metro said Tuesday.

Elected officials and residents have sought for years to remove the name of white supremacist Francis G. Newlands from a fountain in Chevy Chase Circle. Now, the effort is getting a high-profile endorsement from two U.S. senators.

Wiedefeld, 66, was hired in 2015 to stabilize the agency after a fatal smoke incident. He will retire in six months.

The District opened four new walk-in COVID-19 centers where residents can get vaccinated and tested on Tuesday, with four more planned to open across the city next week.

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s general manager and CEO, Paul Wiedefeld, notified the agency’s board on Tuesday of his plans to retire later this year.

D.C. opened four “COVID Centers” Tuesday, with a focus on getting more people vaccinated, boosted and tested, and four more centers are slated to open next week.