2020

D.C. lawmakers this week took their first step toward reducing the role of police in the city’s public schools, amid pressure from protesters here and around the country to remove law enforcement from campuses.

The House on Friday passed a bill giving the District of Columbia statehood, the first time either chamber of Congress has passed any bill that would make the nation’s capital a state.

Mary McLeod Bethune, a member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Black Cabinet,” stands on a memorial with two children alongside her in Lincoln Park. An educator who founded the National Council of Negro Women, Bethune was the first…

On Friday afternoon, the House of Representatives took a first, if symbolic, step toward granting statehood to the District of Columbia, passing HR 51 on a largely partisan vote of 232-180.

It comes from a guy liberals think of as one of Congress' biggest buffoons.

In a city clamoring for both more public outdoor space and better representation in public institutions, the opening of Alethia Tanner Park couldn’t come at a more opportune moment.

Founder Mary Blackford is a finalist for a $100,000 grant for her upcoming venture in Benning Market.

During an appearance on the Kojo Nnamdi Show on Friday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser touched on one of the hot-button issues that initially ignited her now-infamous frays with President Donald Trump, saying that if asked, she would not comply…

The emergency COVID legislation that the DC Council passed in April required mortgage lenders to offer deferrals to property owners, and for those property owners to be transparent and pass that same relief on to their renters. Now, new…

It's a step in the right direction, but don't expect you'll get a voting member of Congress anytime soon.

The long-promised redevelopment of the Park Morton public housing complex is now facing further delays.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-controlled House approved a bill Friday to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, saying Congress has both the moral obligation and constitutional authority to ensure that the city’s 700,000…

The U.S. House on Friday approved legislation to make D.C. the 51st state in the United States.

For the first time since the establishment of the District of Columbia 230 years ago, the House of Representatives voted to declare the city as the nation’s 51st state, a legislative milestone that supporters say begins to right historic…

Protesters can visit the theater lobbies to use restrooms, charge their phones, and pick up a snack.

The District’s effort to redevelop Bruce Monroe Park in Park View just suffered a major legal setback, further complicating the city’s plans to provide new homes for residents of the obsolete Park Morton public housing complex nearby.

Contrary to popular belief, having a robust logging industry is not a criteria for statehood

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass a bill approving D.C. statehood on Friday, the first time a chamber of Congress has ever passed such legislation.

After months of back and forth with the D.C. Department of Employment Services, a D.C. resident is suing the city, alleging it owes her at least five weeks of unpaid unemployment benefits. The lawsuit casts a light on the struggle many…

In coming days, more Washingtonians will be chatting over a meal inside restaurants, huffing through a workout in a neighborhood gym or settling into a barber’s chair for an overdue haircut.