Opinion

The woman told someone who found her wet and freezing at a D.C. bus stop that she was trapped in the tent for an hour

Rosalind Page, a nurse and mother of four daughters, spends her days scouring websites for the names and photos of women and girls lost to violence

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are on the rise, with half of all new cases reported being among 15-to-24-year-olds. Abstinence-only sex “education” exacerbates transmission rates by decreasing the likelihood that youths will make…

There was another traffic crash involving a child. This one was in the 3300 block of Wheeler Road SE. A 9-year-old child is paralyzed. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) made what WAMU reporter Martin Austermuhle identified as a rare…

Three days into 2021, Kaailyah Rainey was with her mother on the way home from a family party when someone started shooting in the 3800 block of Wheeler Road in Southeast Washington. A stray bullet shattered the window of their minivan and…

The Washington Informer has added subscribers and staff in an era when many local newspapers are struggling

Michael Fanone, who resigned Dec. 20 from the D.C. police, was a profile in courage twice this year.

Ron Bankett never expected to hear the song again.

Last Sunday morning, I was startled awake by screams for help.

No state in the nation has recorded a higher rate of covid-19 infection over the past week than the District of Columbia. Justifiably concerned, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Wednesday announced the city will impose a vaccine mandate…

When the pandemic hit, we started giving money to people who needed it — and it helped. Our efforts have worked so well, in fact, that the District of Columbia is building on our model and plans to launch a $1.5 million pilot program for…

Words can sometimes fail to fully capture the grotesque. But D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) came close when he said it was “shocking and beyond belief” that third-grade students in a D.C. school were directed to reenact scenes…

What have we come to in this city when a 23-month-old boy can be shot to death and three weeks later law enforcement cannot say whether the child shot himself, if someone else pulled the trigger or even where the gun that took his life is…

The coronavirus pandemic brought into sharp focus the glaring public health inequities we face in D.C. and how we might better address them going forward.

Like other jurisdictions across the country, the District redraws its political maps every 10 years to keep up with changes in population that are captured by the Census. On Dec. 21, the DC Council will wrap up the first step of this…

Incredibly, as the year 2021 draws to a close, not one D.C. public school is named for an African American female teacher. In fact, not one D.C. high school is even named after a woman. Now we have the opportunity to right that wrong.

This week the region’s local officials and transportation agencies are facing the stark reality that they must quickly adopt major policy changes in the next several years if Greater Washington is to achieve its climate change target.

“The car just came almost drifting around the corner so fast that my mind couldn’t process exactly what was happening.” That was 9-year-old Peter Dziekan, describing being hit by a car while riding his bicycle home from his Northeast D.C.…

The issue at hand is what to rename Woodrow Wilson High School, the comprehensive high school in Northwest Washington that has long carried the name of a two-term president who moved into the White House more than a century ago and was an…

A recent exhibit showcased the work of rising artists in Wards 7 and 8.