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D.C.’s vaccination dashboard, explained.

Bustling nightlife, thriving Black-owned businesses, and brilliant minds.

Two things D.C. residents depend on — unemployment checks and a COVID-19 vaccine shipment — didn’t get delivered last week, but District officials said Monday they’re making good on it.

About 39,000 unemployed D.C. workers did not receive their benefits last week because of a glitch in the city’s system, officials said Monday. The city’s Department of Employment Services had confirmed the delay on Friday but did not say…

American University will hold tuition steady for the fall 2021 semester, the Northwest D.C. institution announced Monday, while focusing “intently on enrollment, retention and expense management” to maintain its fiscal health as the impact…

The Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building opened in October 1881 as the National Museum and established itself a first-of-its-kind palace of wonders, wowing global audiences for nearly a century and a half. It’s where Thomas Edison…

It’s been roughly a year since the coronavirus worldwide outbreak. Since this catastrophe — which has seen more than 110 million cases worldwide — began, the United States federal government has issued two rounds of economic impact…

Last April, the District built a secret disaster morgue, assembled an army of volunteers to staff it, and trained people who had never previously seen a cadaver to care for the dead. This is the story of the morgue—and the quiet force of…

DC recently came out with a revised set of potential rules for short-term rentals in the city that clarify and provide more detail about the framework surrounding these rentals.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) will make the case for D.C. statehood to members of Congress next month at a congressional hearing where lawmakers will debate the constitutional and logistical hurdles to making the District the 51st state.

D.C. business development nonprofit 1863 Ventures is offering hundreds of $5,000 grants to Black-owned businesses across the country.

Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III likes to tell museum visitors that looking to the past can help them understand the future. To celebrate its 175th anniversary, the Smithsonian is turning that idea on its head by focusing on the…

The recently intensified debate over how to reform policing offers two choices that seem impossible to reconcile.

Just a short walking distance from the U.S. Capitol building and the Supreme Court, Capitol Hill Books has been around since 1991.

Some residents in the Capitol Hill neighborhood have been trying to get city regulators to deny a liquor license to a Virginia businessman’s proposed sportsbook in Southeast D.C. However, the battle is on hold.

Roberta McCain didn’t have one string of pearls, she had a dozen. Not one or two cocktail rings, but scores of them — enough to match every outfit. She was a fashionable woman who lived a fashionable life, complete with jewelry, antiques…

Dozens of neighbors gathered Saturday evening to remember Angela Hill.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stately and deliberate, with a distinctive white streak in his black hair, the Rev. Wallace Charles Smith started his Valentine’s Day sermon at Shiloh Baptist Church by talking about love and vaccinations.

Jane Stokes never went to the amusement park at Glen Echo, even after it finally opened its doors to African Americans such as herself in 1961.

Go-go music has been an influential part of the District’s history for decades, but it only recently became the official sound of the District, which is a milestone met with much celebration.