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American University and the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area announced the launch of a mobile lab COVID-19 testing lab that will process saliva-based COVID-19 tests at Gallaudet University.

The foundation started by Marriott International's founders will donate $20 million to Howard University in honor of late CEO Arne Sorenson and establish a new center for hospitality leadership at the historically Black university.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has named Wednesday a “Day of Remembrance for Lives Lost to COVID-19.”

Nearly a year after the first case of COVID-19 was reported in the District, the city has reached a grim milestone: more than 1,000 Washingtonians have died from the virus.

To fully reopen their campuses by the fall, District-area universities will need access to quick and inexpensive testing, leaders said.

While maintaining its community programming and equity initiatives, the 11th Street Bridge Park project is also progressing through the approval process — and could deliver in 2024.

D.C. can't solely blame its inequitable rollout on vaccine hesitancy.

Ronald L. Williams, Jr. Is Using America’s Original Sin to Chase Down A Dream

The D.C. Council is asking Congressional leaders to remove the fencing around the U.S. Capitol, a remnant from the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Security officials testifying at Congress’ first hearing on the deadly siege of the Capitol cast blame and pointed fingers on Tuesday but also acknowledged they were woefully unprepared for the violence.

In 1821, Lynch and Polly Wormley started a horse-and-buggy taxi service in the District. They’d come from Albemarle, Va., after being freed from enslavement by their plantation owners. Their business included a stable, with living quarters…

Top officials responsible for security at the Capitol on Jan. 6 as it was overrun by a mob backing former president Donald Trump blamed wide-ranging intelligence failures for the deadly attack at a Senate hearing Tuesday, pointing to…

“Who’s in charge? Who was ultimately responsible for the safety of the Capitol?” Those were the questions asked by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) Tuesday after the Senate concluded its first hearing into the breakdowns in intelligence-gathering…

"Would you rather?," Metro edition.

Natalee Snider, 43, is a DC real-estate agent with Compass who dropped everything to enlist with DC’s Medical Reserve Corps and Health Department.

FOR AT least the past 10 years, Angela Hill lived in Southeast Washington under a bridge that carries D.C. Route 295 over Pennsylvania Avenue. She had a family that loved her. People from the neighborhood looked out for her, and city…

At-Large D.C. Councilmember Robert White introduced legislation Tuesday he says would help the city address bias within the Metropolitan Police Department by looking at how police responded to recent racial justice protests as well as the…

What do they miss?

A federal judge on Tuesday agreed to reduce the life sentence being served by onetime D.C. drug kingpin Rayful Edmond to 20 years, putting the man who once led the city’s biggest crack-smuggling ring one step closer to getting out of…

Two years ago, District high school student Isabella Ramos-Bracho took a class on the Great Migration. The most memorable part: meeting an actual Great Migrator. That was Edith Crutchfield, who was among the more than 5 million African…