August 2020

The union representing D.C. police officers sued the District in federal court on Wednesday, challenging a new law that makes it easier for the police chief to discipline and fire officers by cutting out the role of the labor group.

D.C. may need to cut $500 million from the budget for the upcoming year if the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic doesn’t change course.

D.C. stands to lose another $500 million in revenue should it need shut down businesses once again in response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new warning from Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey DeWitt.

When Thea Merl interviewed at Rose’s Luxury in 2013, the longtime D.C.-area resident had just moved back from New York and says she’d “heard good things” about the soon-to-open restaurant.

Last week, Secret Service officers with guns drawn surrounded two Black D.C. moms sitting in a parked car with their infants near the National Mall, then handcuffed them and separated them from their infants, the mothers told the…

Coralyn Colladay has been working at polling places in Maryland since the 2016 presidential election. For the Republican — something of a rarity in solidly blue Montgomery County — it’s a way to participate beyond simply casting a ballot. …

As novel coronavirus infection rates surge in most states and the new school year approaches, parents are understandably worried about their children’s health. Yet, even as the coronavirus dominates concerns of parents and school leaders,…

Outdoor movies have become a beloved tradition during summers in the nation’s capital, but the pandemic has shut down most of the annual options due to crowd restrictions.

“We’re talking about twice the work for a quarter of the sales.”

Flooding has been a longtime problem in Northwest D.C.’s Bloomingdale neighborhood.

At his office on Benning Road in Northeast Washington, Edwin Chapman treats about 275 opioid addicts a month. They get counseling, a modified physical exam and buprenorphine, a drug that suppresses the craving for potentially lethal…

When DC Bilingual Public Charter School — a language-immersion school in Northeast Washington — opened in 2004, more than 80 percent of its students came from low-income families. But as more affluent and White families enrolled in the…

In a joint email blast Tuesday, the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles and the police department wrote that there is “an increase in car thefts targeting delivery drivers in DC,” and advised people to take precautions to prevent their…

The development is one of several slated for the emerging waterfront neighborhood between the Wharf and Navy Yard.