“It’s time to put the house on the market,” and other such grumblings could be heard in the audience as Department of Parks and Recreation Landscape Architect Peter Nohrden presented the final scope of work for the Hearst Park…

Wednesday, May 1st
Musical event
National Symphony Orchestra: NSO Pops: An Evening with Leslie Odom Jr. Leslie Odom Jr.’s remarkable talents continue to inspire audiences across the globe, from his Tony®-winning role in Hamilton to singing “America the Beautiful” at…

Wednesday, April 3rd
Book event
Stuart E. Eizenstat will discuss his book President Carter: The White House Years.  Eizenstat, who was Carter’s chief White House domestic policy adviser, argues that it is time to re-evaluate Carter’s four years as president. In…

Wednesday, March 6th
Book discussion
Local author Kara Arundel will discuss her book Raising America’s Zoo: How Two Wild Gorillas Helped Transform the National Zoo. In 1955, a young former Marine ventured to the Belgian Congo on a month-long safari to view Africa’s…

Local tech executives have been urging D.C. leadership to speed up the regulatory process of laying the groundwork for 5G.  The placing of 5G could take as many as 750,000 cell towers via “small-cell” solutions, a network of low-powered…

By: Davis Kennedy
The District’s Attorney General, A.G. Racine, has announced four lawsuits totaling almost $700,000 against six Maryland parents for sending ten children to Duke Ellington School of the Arts and public charter schools without paying out-of-state tuition.
The…

By: Amanda Menas
After Hurricane Florence awoke a need for District residents to be more prepared to protect their homes, the D.C. government spoke out about the District’s resilience.
Kevin Bush, D.C.’s chief resilience officer, reports that with the increasing frequency…

By: Mion Edwards and Meghan Sorensen
Protests have unleashed in D.C. after sexual misconduct allegations surfaced against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Eight days ago, Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault while she was in high school in 1982. On Monday, Debra Ramirez…

Now that summer is officially over, class is finally back in session. Keely Wells, a third-grade teacher at Lafayette Elementary School, expressed her excitement about this school year with The Current Newspapers. And guess what? Her students are just as…

This is a listing of incidents reported to the Metropolitan Police Department from April 2 through April 8 in local police service areas, sorted by their report dates. Click your PSA to jump to crimes reported in your neighborhood….