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Katie Aune used to be a daily Green/Yellow Line commuter, but she’s used Metro only once in four months since the coronavirus pandemic began. She’s been working from home and going out very little, except for walks.

In May 2013, D.C. Council member David Grosso (I-At Large) introduced a resolution urging Washington’s NFL team to change its “derogatory, racist name” to the Red Tails in honor of the Tuskegee Airmen, the pioneering group of African…

Ten-dollar Uber or Lyft rides to get to a grocery store with nutritious vegetarian offerings helped inspire a D.C. woman to launch her own business. Now, the effort has won $150,000 in a nationwide grant competition.

The former owner and manager of two apartment complexes in Southeast D.C. — Forest Ridge and The Vistas — will pay a total of $3.5 million dollars to settle a lawsuit over poor conditions and mismanagement of the properties.

D.C. Public Schools will return to school with a mix of in-person and online learning next month, multiple news outlets reported Wednesday.

Mardena Dobson always brought extra money on field trips — if a student couldn’t afford lunch or snacks, the D.C. teacher would sneak them some pocket change for food. The longtime educator at Kimball Elementary in Southeast Washington…

It was October 24, 2018, less than two weeks before Election Day, when I decided to fling myself at a then-empty ballot as a write-in candidate to lead the Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) in Edgewood. “Better me than nobody,” I…

As part of Greater Greater Washington’s endorsement process for the non-Democratic at-large seat, our elections committee emailed our questionnaire, addressing housing, transportation, and land use issues, to candidates running in the…

Washington, D.C., is my home, and as an educator, I’m proud of that. Here’s a glimpse into why: Just before District of Columbia Public Schools closed in March, I observed a class of fourth-graders joyfully adding fractions on a number…

Summer has just begun for students and teachers nationwide, but next school year already feels too near. With COVID-19 data indicating an impending second surge, the menu of school re-entry scenarios is changing daily. The urge to reopen…

The greater Washington region recorded its highest daily coronavirus caseload in weeks Wednesday as the District lost more ground in its fight to quell the pandemic.

As parents await information on what their children will face for the new school year, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday that she will extend D.C.’s state of emergency order.

The D.C. Council Committee on Government Operations voted unanimously on Wednesday to approve the Racial Equity Achieves Results Act.

D.C., Maryland, and Virginia all reported their highest COVID-19 case counts since early June on Wednesday.

A potential new name for Washington’s football team is the “Washington Red Wolves,” and it is gaining support online not only from fans but from wildlife conservation groups.

If you want to understand the abject failure of America, look to its libraries.

Just a small fraction of people tested for antibodies in the District have them.

In another sign of the financial havoc the covid-19 crisis is wreaking on arts groups, Shakespeare Theatre Company has laid off a third of its full-time employees and cut its budget by 44 percent.

The Washington Blade and Tagg magazine, the local publication that covers issues of interest to lesbians of color, have joined the Washington Informer, one of D.C.’s two African-American newspapers, in calling on the D.C. Council to drop a…

The D.C. Council unanimously approved an amended version of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s fiscal year 2021 budget proposal on July 7, giving advocates less than two weeks to push for additional funding for affordable housing and homeless services…