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'Food for the People' Outdoor Exhibition Focuses on Disparity Plaguing People of Color

The D.C. Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs announced last week that it is reaching out to the community for help finding homeless or “unstably housed” LGBTQ seniors 62 years of age or older for a recently launched city program to provide…

"At this point, I don’t have confidence that the Board of Commissioners or other senior executives will exercise integrity in the performance of their public duties."

No restaurants lost stars this year

While stars are career-changing for chefs, the spotlight is dimmed this year by all the restaurants that couldn't outlast the pandemic.

The Michelin guide is honoring D.C. restaurants for the first time since 2019 — and five local spots have landed those coveted stars.

The food world’s favorite tire company is back in D.C. to award stars to local restaurants — and five new spots have caught inspectors’ eyes.

Metro will launch an extensive, yearslong effort next week to toss out more than 100 of its oldest and least reliable escalators — some of which have been deteriorating for decades.

There’s a push to get more people protected against COVID-19 in D.C. by offering vaccinations at houses of worship.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Proponents of statehood for Washington, D.C., face a milestone moment in their decades-long movement to reshape the American political map.

Imagine a D.C. with a booming marijuana industry, skyscrapers reaching 20 stories tall and trains running in a new tunnel beneath the Potomac River. It could all be possible in a new State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth — the…

D.C. statehood advocate Josh Burch remembers walking into the House office building 10 years ago in search of the next co-sponsor of Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s D.C. statehood bill.

Debate on the DC statehood bill in the U.S. House is slated to begin at about 9:05 a.m. on Thursday, with passage expected to come at a vote after 11 a.m., Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s office said.

The Democratic-controlled Congress will soon try to transform part of the District of Columbia, which today is about one-eighteenth the size of Rhode Island but 18.9 percent larger than Denver International Airport, into a state. This will…

Dozens of members of the public, teachers, former students and police officers shared their feelings about the presence of police in D.C. public schools as District leaders listened.

A new bill in the D.C. Council would prohibit police from engaging in most car chases, and would ban tactics that critics say led to the death of two men in recent years.

More than a year after the coronavirus pandemic brought in-person instruction to a grinding halt, colleges and universities across the region are hoping the increasing availability of COVID-19 vaccines could signal a return to some…

D.C. has planned a Day of Action on May 1 as part of the push to get as many residents as possible vaccinated against COVID-19.

The full House votes Thursday on a bill to make D.C. the 51st state and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says he’s confident it will pass, even though Republicans have narrowed Democrats’ majority since the 2020 election.

The year is 2023. You just received your second COVID-19 booster vaccine, and you’re waiting, maskless, to board your flight at JoJo Siwa Washington National Airport.