2019

Good Thursday morning. Muriel Bowser sent the decriminalization of fare evasion in Metro back to the DC Council, exercising her second veto ever. The bill had passed 10-2, but defections are possible …

On Wednesday, Mayor Bowser announced that Bard High School Early College DC (Bard DC) will be located at Davis Elementary School (4430 H Street, SE) in Ward 7 in school year 2019-2020.

Mayor Muriel Bowser vetoed a bill that decriminalizes fare evasion on the District's Metro transit system. This is only the second time she's taken such action. Her first veto was on an emergency bill that would have allowed high school…

For Steve Schwat and Urban Investment Partners, there’s just something about Policy that keeps them coming back for more.

145 acres. 18 holes. And a setting so peaceful, you could almost forget the racial injustices that black golfers conquered all those years ago. Langston Golf Course is among the nation’s earliest integrated golf courses, and it is a…

WASHINGTON — Two strangers out to take photos of a beautiful, snowy night ended up in a life-or-death situation together in the height of Sunday’s snowstorm. The rescue in Rock Creek Park involved one of WTOP’s very own.

Are you still a mother if your child passes away? What if you lose a child and just so happen to be engaged in a casual conversation with a stranger who offhandedly asks, “So, how many children do you have?” How do you answer that? In the…

WASHINGTON — D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser vetoed a measure Wednesday that would decriminalize fare evasion on Metro.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has rejected the D.C. Council’s decision to decriminalize Metro fare jumping, issuing her second-ever veto Wednesday amid concern the measure would exacerbate the transit agency’s financial problems.

Mayor Muriel Bowser vetoed the D.C. Council’s Fare Evasion Decriminalization Act on Wednesday, writing in a letter to Council Chairman Phil Mendelson that the bill “will result in additional lost revenue for the Metro system” and that “we…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser wants to see the District’s police department grow over the next four years by adding about 150 officers, allowing more front-line protectors to walk neighborhood beats and ride bikes, Segways and scooters.

Try to imagine a 16th Street with no cars. Mayor Muriel Bowser can.

In 2018, workers removed legally protected materials from the building, which is being turned into a museum

More development is on the boards for Northeast.

The General Services Administration “ignored” concerns that President Trump’s lease on a government-owned building — the one that houses his Trump International Hotel in Washington — might violate the Constitution when it allowed Trump to…

While attending a bachelorette party at a Gallery Place restaurant in June, a transgender woman reported being asked to provide her ID to use the bathroom—which is illegal in the District. Ultimately, she was kicked out of the…