Wendy Nicole Villatoro, a former public official in Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining $844,000 in COVID-19 relief funds. The funds were meant to help struggling businesses survive the economic impact of the pandemic.

Students enrolled in the D.C. Public Schools made modest testing gains last year but continued to perform at below-average levels.

Pedestrians are now twice as likely to be killed in the D.C. area as they were a decade ago, even as more local leaders promise safer streets. For the third consecutive year in 2024, the Washington region recorded more than 100 pedestrian deaths.

Metro is seeing the highest ridership this week since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, largely due to return-to-work orders for federal workers. This week, the