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For more than nine months, Black Lives Matter Plaza has been a pedestrian-only zone — a place where protesters gathered, tourists paused for photos, and bands of yogis and artists hosted classes and community workshops.

OVER THE past few days, that horrendous fencing erected around the Capitol and its grounds has been modified to allow for more traffic. On Monday, officials announced that there will be even more changes, including removal of the looped…

On April 17, Audi Field will play host to D.C. United’s Major League Soccer home opener versus New York City F.C. With approval from the Mayor’s Office and DC Health on Monday, it’ll also host up to 2,000 fans.

All D.C. residents 16 and older will be eligible to pre-register for COVID-19 vaccination appointments starting May 1, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Monday.

Every adult in the District will be eligible for coronavirus vaccine appointments starting on May 1, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said Monday, in keeping with the national goal set last week by President Biden.

DC food service workers are eligible to receive Covid-19 vaccines beginning today, and delivery drivers and couriers will follow the week of March 29. Meanwhile, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced in a press conference Monday morning that…

The city will extend the 10 p.m. cut off on alcohol sales to midnight on March 22, but did not lift seating capacity limits.

A rehabilitation project is starting this week on the Korean War Veterans Memorial, and by the time it’s done in more than a year, the monument will include a Wall of Remembrance similar to the Vietnam memorial.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Security officials will soon scale back the perimeter fencing surrounding the Capitol in response to guidance from the U.S. Capitol Police that “there does not exist a known, credible threat” that warrants keeping the…

“Well, it’s like the Kremlin,” he said, taking measure of the tall fence and razor wire that will be in all his weekend-in-Washington, Capitol selfies. “You can’t get too close to that either.”

More people in D.C. are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, and some restrictions will soon be relaxed, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday.

U.S. Capitol Police will reduce the security perimeter erected after the breach of the Capitol, having determined that “there does not exist a known, credible threat against Congress,” according to a security memo sent to U.S. lawmakers on…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is easing some public health restrictions as Covid-19 vaccines become more widely available, and could look to roll back additional Covid limitations in early April.

As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues across the Washington region, local museums are slowly starting to welcome back visitors. Most of them have a spate of new health and safety measures in place, including capacity limits, reduced…

The forbidding fencing that has surrounded the U.S. Capitol since the violent Jan. 6 insurrection may be scaled back further in the next two weeks, according to an internal email obtained by CNN.

In 2013, just over a month after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the killing of Trayvon Martin, I walked into my first day at Georgetown Law. I was the only Black student in my section of more than 70 students.

(CNN) — The US Capitol Police intends to reduce perimeter fencing and is considering scaling back the National Guard presence at the Capitol as law enforcement forces examine how to protect against threats amidst a tense political climate…

At a desk within the D.C. police homicide unit, a lone photo of a smiling, baby-toothed, slightly dimpled-cheeked baby boy is tacked to a partition.

If there is one thing I have learned from my 37 years in the U.S. Army, and 13 years since in environmental and civil rights causes, it is that fences may work to keep livestock in your field, but they don’t work — and they send the wrong…

U Street Corridor was once home to hundreds of Black-owned businesses. Author Briana Thomas is trying to keep that spirit alive.