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The words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that for more than six months have looked out over protests, celebrations and gaggles of tourists in Black Lives Matter Plaza were taken apart Wednesday, piece by piece.

In the corner of a D.C. home sit four stacks of handwritten cards.

The statistics make clear that Washington, D.C. experienced four-straight years of a decrease in murder, from 144 in 2008, to 88 in 2012. There were many reasons for this steady decline, including community organizations like my former…

Wireless service is now accessible throughout all of Metrorail after the transit agency added nearly 400 miles of cable and infrastructure along its tracks to connect to major carriers.

Another company is hoping to bring mopeds to D.C. in the coming months.

DC may soon have another tool available to incentivize grocery stores to open in Wards 7 and 8.

Don’t start drinking a beer in the middle of a D.C. street just yet, but city officials are trying to loosen liquor laws, including some around public drinking, to help restaurants and bars recover from the Covid crisis.

Washington — Democratic Senator Tom Carper of Delaware, joined by a group of more than three dozen fellow Democrats, has introduced a bill to make Washington, D.C., the 51st state, continuing the years-long campaign to grant statehood to…

Any time the D.C. Council wants to pass a bill into law, it’s required to get an independent assessment of how much the bill would cost and whether the city has the money to pay for it. But now, lawmakers are getting a second look at their…

A new generation of savvy activists. A new political calculus among leading Democrats. Maybe, just maybe, it could actually happen.

The most important liberal advocacy organizations—and a broader swath of the public—are pushing to make the District of Columbia the fifty-first state.

Greater Washington colleges and universities are slated to receive about $273 million from the stimulus package approved in December, significantly more than in the earlier Covid relief package thanks to differences in how the funding was…

The District and other local governments in the Washington region tweaked their plans Wednesday to vaccinate seniors, people with high-risk conditions, teachers and other essential workers as residents scramble to find scarce doses of the…

The legislation also encourages grocers to open stores east of the river by using liquor sales as an incentive.

To understand the impact of the pandemic, look no further than the latest D.C. Auditor report.

The Biden administration has pledged to up D.C.’s COVID-19 vaccine allotment by 15% over the next three weeks, partially answering the city’s ongoing pleas for more doses.

The center of D.C.’s first documented outbreak of the coronavirus last spring was a church in Georgetown, in wealthy and majority-white Ward 2. But once the virus started spreading rapidly across the city, its devastating effects fell…

A bill to make Washington, D.C. the 51st state was introduced to the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, marking another incremental victory for local statehood advocates.

The annual March for Life is taking place virtually this year due to the pandemic and heightened security around the Capitol following the Jan. 6 insurrection. While organizers are telling participants to stay home for the event, they are…