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While most of the attention for the past 16 months has been on the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, opioid abuse in the District has increased, raising concerns of city officials.

The District of Columbia also joined the suit, the latest to challenge Big Tech business practices

Find the 850-seat room in the former Navy Yard Car Barn. The team behind Union Stage will book the acts.

An audit found that the company that is the sole provider for D.C.’s legal sports betting app is behind on its commitment to hire local businesses.

Six months to the day after law enforcement erected a black, metal, 8-foot-tall fence surrounding the Capitol complex in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection, the detested structure is finally coming down.

But building access restrictions will remain

With at least 70% of the D.C. region’s population fully vaccinated, coronavirus case and deaths counts in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia are at the lowest they’ve been since the beginning of the pandemic.

Plans are underway for a revamped 17th Street corridor with bike lanes and more permanent outdoor dining.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The fencing installed around the Capitol after the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection will start being removed as soon as Friday, but most visitors are still not allowed inside the iconic building.

The announcement that Nikole Hannah-Jones would join the faculty at Howard University pushed some post-college-age adults to express regret that they weren’t younger.

Construction on a new men’s shelter in Southeast D.C. is well underway, and for some men, it means new jobs and a fresh start.

The Greek company that received a massive no-bid contract to bring sports betting to the District has so far fallen short of a legal requirement to spend money with locally owned businesses, and government agencies have failed to oversee…

Low-barrier shelters in D.C. neared capacity last week during a heat emergency declared by the District as temperatures reached a heat index of 105 degrees in some parts of D.C. However, overflow sites are not being prepared as bed space…

A day after the Fourth of July, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner 2F08 Alexandra Bailey and multiple mutual aid groups helped a tent community at Burke and Samuel Gompers Memorial Park pack up their items, in preparation for the U.S. Park…

Darren Thompson lives in Ward 7’s Benning Ridge neighborhood with his six-year-old bullmastiff-rottweiler mix Barrow. But for Barrow to roam freely off-leash, Thompson usually drives out to Arlington, Virginia to access a public dog park.…

Ten months ago, Kaamilya Finley was presented with an ultimatum: She could either stay in her home, where she was living after returning from a period of incarceration; or she could take part in an education and internship program at…

A public roundtable is set for this Friday, July 9 on the pedestrian bridge that collapsed over DC Route 295 last month.

Brooke Pinto, Janeese Lewis George, and Christina Henderson disclosed meetings only after being asked about them.

NEW YORK (AP) — Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones used major philanthropic donors to build her future as a tenured professor at Howard University, just as other major donors sought to stymie the Pulitzer Prize-winning Black investigative…

Over the past year, some developments between DC's Brookland and Langdon neighborhoods have mashed on the gas while others have faded into the background.