2022

Omicron continues to hit the Metro system — and area riders — hard.

Starting Saturday at 6 a.m., the first phase of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s vaccine mandate goes into effect, requiring bars, restaurants, gyms, and other businesses to ask patrons age 12 or older for proof of vaccination.

New and pregnant mothers living in some of D.C.'s poorest neighborhoods will receive $900 in monthly cash assistance, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Thursday.

Metrobus customers have been having a rough week as the transit agency reduced service this week. Riders say some buses aren’t showing up on time, or at all, leading to long waits in frigid temperatures.

Here's what the rare raptor and her many fans have been up to.

Expect Metrorail delays until mid-April.

D.C. Public Schools will require prekindergarten students to test weekly for covid-19 starting this weekend, as a part of new testing initiative in schools, system officials said Thursday.

The winter surge of coronavirus cases may have peaked in the District, experts said Thursday, as Maryland’s governor announced 20 million free N95 and KN95 will be distributed to further blunt spread of the highly infectious omicron…

The transit agency wants to give engineering and mechanical experts time to acquire more efficient technology

A march by opponents of vaccine mandates will take place Sunday, January 23 on the National Mall. The event, called “Defeat the Mandates: An American Homecoming,” plans a march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, where a…

As a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the highly-transmissible omicron variant overwhelms the region’s hospitals, epidemiologists predict the D.C. region may be nearing a peak in cases. If case trends continue to mirror those in omicron…

D.C. public schools students in pre-K will be required to take a rapid COVID-19 test every week beginning next week, Chancellor Lewis Ferebee said Thursday, noting the school system is prioritizing students who aren’t eligible to receive…

The owner of the former Peace Corps headquarters at 1111 20th St. NW is changing tack after spending the last three years looking for office tenants to backfill the space.

A Latino man sued two D.C. police officers last week, alleging that they used homophobic language during an illegal stop-and-frisk in Northwest Washington in 2019.

Have you been thinking about switching to a mobile SmarTrip card? It’s not too late to get 10 free Capital Bikeshare rides for your efforts, after CaBi and Metro expanded a partnership until June.

Starting Feb. 28, the East Building, which houses the museum’s modern and contemporary collection, will be closed to expedite the atrium skylight restoration.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Thursday that the city is putting $1.5 million towards a pilot program to provide direct cash payments to 132 low-income new parents and pregnant people in wards 5, 7, and 8, offering each of them up to…

The National Gallery of Art will close its East Building from Feb. 28 until June to speed up the replacement of its atrium skylight, the museum announced Thursday. The replacement of the 40-year-old skylight is one of multiple major…

It won’t come as a surprise to parents that it takes an estimated $30,000 to raise a newborn, according to Lending Tree. D.C.’s mayor is announcing a $1.5 million lifeline for young mothers living in poverty to help them navigate that…

Omicron continues to hit the Metro system — and area riders — hard.