2022

Families collected back-to-school supplies and got vaccinations ahead of the first day for D.C. public schools.

Among the several hundred thousand people who attended the March on Washington, on Aug. 28, 1963, is a Washington woman who says she can remember where she stood to hear Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders speak.

Henry D. Cogswell was one of those guys who got rich then decided the world should notice him. And it did, though perhaps not in the way he intended.

Sean Doolittle is from New Jersey, and Eireann Dolan, his wife, grew up outside Chicago. But don’t get them going about the fact that the 689,000 or so residents of the District of Columbia have no voting representation in Congress.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Medical providers at Children’s National Hospital in Washington have become the latest targets of social media campaigns harassing U.S. hospitals for the treatments they offer transgender youths.

The prisoners’ deaths last month have raised questions for relatives and revived discussions about the city’s practice of sending residents to prisons across the country

Children’s National Hospital has been inundated with threatening emails and phone calls after an influential right-wing Twitter account published a recording that falsely suggested the hospital is performing hysterectomies on transgender…

Earlier in the day, many first-year students walked out of convocation to show support for staff

The Washington Improv Theater has found a home — for now.

American University’s staff union has reached an agreement with the school administration after a five-day strike during student welcome week.

A new home for the horses used by the U.S. Park Police will open soon, and should be completed before the end of the year along the National Mall.

I don’t pretend to fully understand God’s will. But according to the city’s deputy medical examiner, 23-month-old Legend King Wheeler died from a gunshot wound to the head on the day before Thanksgiving 2021.

The D.C. Office of Campaign Finance confirmed today it will investigate a complaint against Councilmember Elissa Silverman (I-At-Large).

American University administrators resumed negotiations Friday morning with staff who were on strike this week demanding higher wages and equitable pay. It was the first bargaining session administrators held with the staff’s union since…

D.C. public schools are pushing back enforcement deadlines for students who fail to receive their required vaccinations, including against COVID-19.

Students will need to be vaccinated against the coronavirus by Jan. 3

D.C. is pushing back the date by which public school students must be up-to-date on vaccinations, according to a letter sent to school leaders Friday.

D.C. is delaying enforcement of student vaccine policies for several months, as the city struggles to bring thousands of students into compliance with routine and COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

On Tuesday and early this morning, Howard University received bomb threats, leading students to evacuate and prompting an investigation.

A large group of first-year American University students walked out of a convocation ceremony on campus Friday as a days-long strike by a staff union intensified.