2020

Virginia, Maryland and the District say the Environmental Protection Agency has not taken action against two states that polluted the bay in violation of a court-ordered cleanup agreement.

Two concepts have been presented to re-envision what is one of DC's most notorious intersections.

DC will continue most of its existing transportation efforts next year under a draft budget released by DC mayor Muriel Bowser. However, unless the DC Council changes the budget, the District will have somewhat less funding for affordable…

Ward 7's Vincent Gray was the only Democrat in a contested race to earn 60% of club members' votes

The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, D.C.’s largest local LGBTQ political group, was unable to reach a 60 percent threshold vote needed to make an endorsement in three key D.C. Council races, including the hotly contested Ward 2 race in…

Like families everywhere, Walt and Libby are hunkered down with the kids in their Northwest D.C. home. But they’re not under quarantine.

The attorneys general of D.C., Maryland and Virginia say other states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed are not doing their part to clean up the bay. They plan to file a lawsuit to make the Environmental Protection Agency require states that…

Every morning around 10 a.m., the District publishes its daily tally of new positive COVID-19 cases. If you happen to follow the numbers, you’ll know that there were 152 new reported positive cases last Thursday, 135 on Friday, 171 on…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia filed a notice of intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to require two other states to implement plans to cut pollution in the Chesapeake Bay,…

Starting today, eight local D.C. education and academic retail shops are permitted to operate curbside or sidewalk pick-up, after petitions from local bookstores and nonessential retail shops reached D.C. officials.

Someone's used gloves, birds in the street, and echoes of Pompeii.

Happy Monday. Mayor Muriel Bowser released a budget proposal this morning that relies heavily on the District's reserves to offset the massive revenue losses caused by the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. By doing so, she…

Anyone hoping to dine in the middle of a D.C. street will have to wait just a bit longer for the chance to do so.

President Donald Trump nominated Justin Herdman, the U.S. Attorney in Cleveland, to be D.C.’s top federal prosecutor on Monday. He’s set to replace Timothy Shea, who was installed in late January under the “interim” tag and has had a very…

President Trump will nominate a new U.S. Attorney to oversee the D.C. office, which handles both local and national cases including several high-profile prosecutions of the president’s allies.

To avoid tax increases and major programmatic cuts, the mayor relies on past savings and surpluses, as well as hiring and pay freezes for D.C. government employees.

Tens of thousands of D.C. government workers could go without cost-of-living pay increases for as long as four years; city agencies have been forced to scour for savings; and a handful of tax loopholes will be closed as part of the…