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New cases declined, but numbers show no progress toward other key goals

The Eagle, AU’s student-run newspaper, said it received tips questioning the legitimacy of the face coverings

D.C.’s mayor is sharing some of the details of her new proposed budget — specifically changes coming to schools.

It’s been about a year since Black Lives Matter artwork was removed from a fence in Lafayette Square to be preserved. Now, the artwork from that national symbol of protest is being displayed by the Library of Congress in a new online…

The deaths aren’t always loud or public. There’s no web of screaming yellow crime-scene tape, and sirens are rare. But in 2020, opioids claimed more than twice the 198 lives that gunfire did in the nation’s capital.

Fletcher is lagging behind other major candidates in the cash race.

The Public Defender Service for D.C. has filed a class action lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons, arguing that people from D.C. are treated unfairly in federal prisons.

D.C. will finally have two statues displayed in the U.S. Capitol when an effigy of Pierre L’Enfant is unveiled on Feb. 28, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton announced Monday. The House of Representatives accepted the statue as a gift from D.C.…

Mayor Muriel Bowser won't present her proposed fiscal year 2023 budget until mid-March, but she announced today that it will include a 5.9% increase to the Uniform Per Student Funding Formula as well as a $36 million "recovery fund" to…

D.C. saw one of the nation’s largest declines in family homelessness between 2020 and 2021, and also had one of the nation’s highest rates of sheltered people experiencing chronic homelessness, per a new report out on Friday by the U.S.…

D.C. diners are more cautious than most of the country when it comes to eating out during the pandemic, OpenTable data shows.

D.C. could soon see a surge of evictions, says the Office of the Tenant Advocate, as a group of housing advocates ask D.C. to use surplus funding to avoid evictions.

After spending more than a month in a hotel, Chanice Little returned Wednesday to the living room of her recently repainted apartment in downtown Washington. She stood next to a waterlogged twin mattress and box spring — the remnants of…

American University has said that the KN95 masks distributed to its D.C. campus community did not meet the standards the distributor promised them.

As a matter of fact, the house that Friendship House was in still exists, even if the charity that was Friendship House no longer does.

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) are seeking to posthumously honor the Black men and women who served in the Civil War.