2019

A group of D.C. Council members introduced a bill Tuesday designed to improve compliance with a District law that requires companies with large public contracts to subcontract some work to small local businesses.

Two outside lawyers hired by the D.C. Council to conduct an investigation of council member Jack Evans went before the ad hoc committee Tuesday to take questions about their report, which found numerous violations of ethics rules.

In an unprecedented event, D.C. Council members on Tuesday grappled publicly with an ethics investigation into their longest-serving colleague, council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2).

To better understand what the fight over bike lanes in the District is about, it apparently helps to visit Copenhagen. The capital of Denmark, population 800,000, has the kind of bicycle “highway” system that some city leaders are hoping…

The District’s mental health agency acknowledged Tuesday that it failed to properly monitor a discharged psychiatric patient with a homicidal history before he allegedly killed a neighbor in an unprovoked shooting in March. But the agency…

Following an eight-month investigation by his office, D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine filed a lawsuit Tuesday against DoorDash, accusing America’s largest food-delivery service of pocketing millions of dollars in workers’ tips and…

Vehicles with multiple tickets for excessive speeding and red-light running could be impounded or booted under a new bill from D.C. Council member Elissa Silverman (I-At Large). Owners will only get their vehicle back by taking a reckless…

The Monumental Sports and Entertainment Foundation opened three newly refurbished rec courts Tuesday at the Ferebee Hope Recreation Center in Ward 8 in the District.

After a certain number of high-risk violations, their vehicles would be impounded

A federal program that funneled millions of dollars into the District’s richest neighborhoods at the expense of poorer areas it was created to help used unadjusted and outdated data for years that failed to capture the city’s rapid…

While consumers can tip gig economy workers like rideshare drivers and food deliverers through their respective apps, it’s not always clear that the money is making its way to workers directly in the same way, say, a $5 bill would.

Assistant City Administrator Says District Encourages Aviation Company to Look at Private and Federal Land

A dozen D.C.-area health groups will soon receive checks from a major nonprofit insurer growing its presence in the region.

The Northwest D.C. building that once housed Fannie Mae's headquarters will soon have a new occupant.

Trained firearms experts will start shooting deer this week in Rock Creek Park in Washington as part of a plan to manage the population there, the National Park Service says.

Even though the company changed its policy in August, it hasn't repaid workers for lost tips, according to the complaint.

More than 200 Georgetowners gathered on Thursday evening, Nov. 14, in the spacious vacant retail space of the former Georgetown Park mall to discuss — what else? — the problem of vacant stores in Georgetown. Sponsored by the Georgetown…