Editor 25036 posts 0 comments

Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-West Virginia) said Friday that he opposes the current bill to make D.C. the 51st state, adding that he’d prefer to see the issue taken up through a constitutional amendment.

As demand for coronavirus vaccines tapers off slightly, D.C. officials are considering incentives to persuade workers and residents to take the shot.

Residents of some Southeast D.C. neighborhoods say they’ve dealt with poor mail service for years–even before the U.S. Postal Service’s pandemic woes.

Millions of Americans are missing appointments for their second COVID-19 vaccine doses, and that includes people in the D.C.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced on April 26 that the city’s COVID-related public health restrictions are being eased one step further by the lifting of a ban on live entertainment at bars, restaurants and nightclubs beginning May 1.

One of the most sacred and formidable tasks a theater can undertake is to examine the affairs of its own community. It is the opposite of provincialism: To my mind, it points to a theater town scaling new heights of worldly…

The lack of affordable rental housing in D.C. continues to challenge households with low and moderate incomes. The D.C. Housing Finance Agency announced several projects as 2020 came to a close that will provide additional affordable…

Anger, confusion and recrimination have erupted in one of the District’s tonier neighborhoods over city plans to raze parts of a park that is being renovated in order to build a public elementary school.

The outdoor installation is a companion to a larger exhibit that's been delayed.

The now widespread technology makes dining out more convenient and contactless, but does it compromise hospitality?

After canceling last year, the DC Funk Parade Festival is back this weekend.

Prosecutors say they are prepared to reexamine hundreds of open cases and convictions, if necessary, following a series of probes into the District’s crime lab, including an ongoing criminal investigation that centers on allegations that…

Hackers retrieved human resources files with personal information in the breach of D.C. police’s computer network, for which a Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate is claiming responsibility and threatening to share the data with local…

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine’s office has announced it will not prosecute a majority of people who violated Mayor Muriel Bowser’s temporary curfew during Black Lives Matter protests last June.

In June 2020, when protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody filled the streets of D.C., more than 200 people were arrested for violating Mayor Muriel Bowser’s curfew.

Hackers who apparently infiltrated the D.C. police department’s computer network briefly posted personnel files of at least five current and former officers, a gambit one security expert says was to prove the group’s threats are real.

Curated by Georgetown professor Ori Z. Soltes, the exhibition reflects on culture, spirituality, and heritage.

The number of people experiencing homelessness in D.C. is seeing significant decline, and officials say this indicates that programs to help people are working.

Baltimore chef Spike Gjerde has scrapped plans to launch a food hall inside RiverPoint, the mixed-use project developed on the site of the former U.S. Coast Guard headquarters at Buzzard Point in Southwest D.C.

Washington, D.C.’s wealthiest residents pay a lower share of their earnings in D.C. taxes than its middle-income residents, a recent report published by the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute found.