2022

Well, hello again, Local Opinions. Yep, it’s me again. You know, that lady who writes near the anniversary of being hit by a car? In the crosswalk with the walk light? At the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and Good Hope Road…

Outside of the Frederick Douglass Community Center in Southeast, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced a $1,000 grant for families who received government assistance from the District to ease back-to-school costs.

As public schools in D.C. gear up for the start of the school year, leaders are reminding parents they have a couple of things to do to help fight the spread of COVID-19 when classes begin.

On Sunday afternoon, traffic will come to a halt in Adams Morgan. Instead of Uber Eats drivers blocking traffic outside restaurants and buses idling at stoplights, 18th Street NW will be filled with diners enjoying restaurants alfresco and…

The well-connected developer had served on the board since Mayor Muriel Bowser took office.

It was a sunny day last week when it finally happened, the thing Jay had left his small, conservative hometown in the South to avoid — hate.

About 15,000 low-income D.C. families will receive a $1,000 payment before the end of the month to help with expenses for the upcoming school year, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Thursday.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Thursday that 15,000 low-income families will be getting one-time, $1,000 payments this month from a pot of federal funds the city was awarded for COVID-19 relief efforts.

Last week, a 3-month-old boy named Aaron Boyd Jr. died after being trapped in a car and going into apparent cardiac arrest. Though police officers got there sooner, a dispatching error meant it took 13 minutes for paramedics to arrive to…

A four-year legal battle over D.C.’s new requirements that many child care workers get a college degree has seemingly come to an end.

D.C. Public Schools will require every student and staff member to submit a negative COVID-19 test result before they return to classrooms later this month, one of the few COVID-19 precautions in place as the system starts another pandemic…

The DC government is using COVID-19 relief funds to provide an extra back-to-school payment of approximately $1,000 to participants in the District's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.

For those of us who’ve called D.C. home for a decade or more, it sometimes feels as if we’re living in an entirely new city.

Tsedaye Makonnen is reclining on her couch, in her home in Northeast D.C. She’s 33 weeks pregnant, and she’s surrounded by three other Black women — a midwife and two trainees — who are performing a routine prenatal exam.

Longtime victims’ advocate Marcey Rinker grew increasingly frustrated with how the justice system was changing, as homicides continued to mount

D.C. Council members pushed the District’s health department to publish a dashboard tracking monkeypox cases. On Wednesday, that data was made public, with the agency reporting 350 cases in the District.

D.C. said it has closed on financing that will bring affordable housing and commercial businesses to a historically significant area of the city.

A loan company controlled by one of the nation’s largest private-equity firms is engaged in a nationwide scheme that takes advantage of low- and moderate-income consumers, according to a lawsuit filed by five states.

With their party in control of Congress and the White House, Democrats in D.C. had the sense that anything was possible at the start of the legislative session last year. Momentum for D.C. statehood hit an all-time high. The city…

Cynthia Killough describes a frustrating search for answers from the U.S. Postal Service