On International Overdose Awareness Day Tuesday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration hosted events across the city to destigmatize opioid overdoses, promote medication-assisted treatment plans and celebrate a 25% increase in the!-->…
The Washington Metrorail Safety Commission says in a new audit that Metro isn’t tracking the annual physical health and properly managing the fatigue of its train operators, possibly putting both operators and passengers at risk.
More than two years have passed since the last DC Jazz Festival took place in its full 10-day glory. Normally a highlight of the District’s annual music calendar, the festival is yet another victim of the COVID pandemic, and was turned!-->…
A new design and new potential arts operators are in the works for the next phase of Art Place in Fort Totten, nearly two years after this massive arts-centric development received preliminary zoning approval, and a few months after it!-->…
A new phishing scam targets DC unemployment recipients, promising them access to additional benefits while seeking confidential information — prompting warnings about potential identity theft.
A bill from Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., would give control of the District’s National Guard to the city’s mayor — and it’s scheduled for markup Wednesday.
Numerous recipients of unemployment benefits in D.C. have received suspicious emails from D.C. government accounts over the last two weeks, indicating a possible intrusion into city computers by scammers attempting to coax confidential!-->…
At least five people have been abducted at gunpoint off streets in the District in recent nights by a gang of robbers who drove the victims to ATMs and took money from their accounts, police said Monday.
Rajah Caruth has been signed to compete in a limited series of NASCAR Xfinity Series races in 2022, which will make the D.C. native the third Black driver actively racing in a NASCAR series and the eighth in its history.
Outside Two Rivers Public Charter School — Young Elementary, a second grade teacher shook a tambourine as he cheerfully welcomed families to the first day of school. A drama teacher greeted youngsters with a puppet draped over one arm. A!-->…
A church is aiming to spur the redevelopment of a Brookland property in what could become one of the first projects affected by changes to a key affordable housing policy D.C. passed earlier this year.