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District residents, government officials, and health professionals gathered virtually last month for the D.C. Department of Health’s oversight budget hearings for fiscal year 2020 and the first half of fiscal year 2021, where several…

On April 2, the D.C. Department of Human Services announced that the District will be expanding the Pandemic Emergency Program for Medically Vulnerable Individuals (PEP-V), opening a fourth PEP-V site that will accommodate up to an…

Ruby Corado, executive director of Casa Ruby, the D.C. LGBTQ community services center, posted a GoFundMe appeal on March 31 asking for financial support to relocate to a new headquarters building following a dispute with its landlord.

An initial cohort of 25 incarcerated students are expected to start classes this fall.

Several D.C. restaurants survived the pandemic without letting customers cross the threshold. Was only offering takeout the right decision?

Getting from D.C. to New York has always been a matter of speed and efficiency: whether it’s by plane, train or automobile, most people heading north are just trying to get there as fast as possible, not meander along the Northeast…

A new notification is posted nearly every day on the school system’s public website. They trickle in a few at a time.

The Council voted to allow landlords to evict tenants who pose a “threat to the health and safety” during the public health emergency, but lawmakers wouldn’t permit landlords to increase rent on vacant units.

The District’s sports betting operation continues to struggle to generate cash, leading officials to shave $31.4 million off revenue projections through 2024 — while the city’s lone private sportsbook seems to be picking up steam.

The word artist doesn’t sit well with Kailasa Aqeel, lead vocalist of the D.C. funk band Black Folks Don’t Swim? (yes, it’s meant to be a question). For the Duke Ellington School of the Arts grad, lifelong creator, and mother of an…

Unity Health Care President and CEO Vincent Keane is retiring after more than three decades with the organization.

As Howard University gears up for a hearing on its updated Campus Plan, developers are getting the opportunity to throw their hat in the ring for one of the sites contemplated for redevelopment.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — in the springtime!

Do you tie up your recyclables in a plastic bag? Toss jars filled with peanut butter in the recycling bin? What about old clothing?

In a largely symbolic resolution, the D.C. Council condemned the police response to last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests as compared to the law enforcement response to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

A national forensics board suspended the D.C. crime lab’s accreditation over the department’s deliberate concealment of information and fraudulent behavior, according to the suspension letter issued by the board and obtained by WTOP.

New details are emerging on the reason a national forensics board suspended the D.C. crime lab’s accreditation to conduct forensic testing, with the board saying it has “credible evidence” the lab deliberately concealed information and…

The DC Council on Tuesday approved what supporters cast as a narrow exception to the eviction ban established by local leaders at the start of the public health emergency.

Canopies of pink and white flowers are blanketing Washington, D.C., after the city's cherry trees hit full bloom last week.

A man accused of assaulting a police officer at the Capitol on Jan. 6 alleges that two guards at the D.C. jail beat him last month, breaking his nose, dislocating his jaw and leaving him suffering seizures.