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In 2019, Wesley Hanks of D.C.’s Capitol Hill neighborhood would have spent his afternoons and evenings in the late spring and early summer playing baseball or participating in other structured activities.

The District’s health department published a key metric for the first time Monday and revealed that the number is dismal: The percentage of new coronavirus cases linked to already known cases is just 2.8 percent.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has escalated her dispute with the D.C. Council over police funding, urging the city’s independent chief financial officer to intervene if lawmakers approve cuts to the police department.

D.C. Councilwoman Brianne Nadeau, D-Ward 1, wants to jumpstart progress on the redevelopment of the Park Morton public housing complex after a recent court ruling imperiled part of the effort to replace the aging apartment community.

The Menkiti Group just landed a major office tenant for the second phase of its MLK Gateway project in Anacostia: D.C.’s Department of Housing and Community Development, currently headquartered just around the corner.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is criticizing the D.C. Council’s proposed budget reductions to the Metropolitan Police Department, saying that they could lead to an increase in costs and should be examined by the city’s chief financial officer. …

D.C. is falling far short of its goal when it comes to tracing new coronavirus cases to quarantined residents, according to data released Monday.

Five years after DC solicited development proposals for Shaw's Parcel 42, and nearly four years after a development team was selected, the city is taking up the rezoning that would make the project possible.

Metro is increasing service for Metrorail starting Aug. 16 and Metrobus starting Aug. 23. It’s part of the transit agency’s plan to ramp up service throughout the coronavirus pandemic and return to full service in spring 2021.

Nineteen weeks after shutting down because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Smithsonian Institution is ready to reopen two of its venues.

It’s only Monday, and we already have some good news for animal lovers and parents who have been cooped up with their small children for months: Two Smithsonian institutions will reopen to visitors this Friday, July 24.

Metro announced on Monday that rail and bus hours and service will expand beginning in mid-August.

The chemical giant Monsanto will pay the District of Columbia $52 million dollars, as part of a settlement over toxic contamination in D.C. waterways. It’s one of the largest environmental settlements ever in the city.

The world has changed since D.C.’s social studies standards were created 14 years ago.

As school systems continue to figure out how or whether to welcome back students for on-campus learning this fall, a DC private school is taking to the parking lots.

Fifty-seven years to the day after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his soaring “I Have A Dream” speech on the Mall before hundreds of thousands, his oldest son will join civil rights leaders and the families of black men and women slain…

The television news cameras are gone, along with the T-shirt vendors, tents and free hot dogs. The swelling crowds of protesters who inspired the birth of Black Lives Matter Plaza in downtown Washington have largely dissipated.

Local bands can use all the accolades they can get to boost recognition these days.

Unemployment rates remain near historic highs and they continued to fall in 42 states and the District of Columbia in June. During that month, D.C., Maryland and Virginia regained tens of thousands of jobs.

Antonio Ferraro is the owner of Napoli Pasta Bar in Columbia Heights, a Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand-honored restaurant that got creative to survive during the coronavirus lockdown.