November 2021

D.C. officials on Friday defended Mayor Muriel Bowser’s decision to end the District’s mask mandate, after a majority of the city’s council members asked for it to stay in place.

Deon Jones said he has faced threats of violence and false accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior with inmates at the D.C. jail. On multiple occasions, and with senior D.C. Department of Corrections officials looking on, Jones said…

The District must pay more than $251,000 in damages to Fort Myer Construction Corp., one of the city’s most successful and politically connected contractors, following a court ruling on a contract dispute that’s played out over the course…

The new chair of the D.C. board that oversees public housing failed to pay more than $15,000 in income taxes over a multiyear span, a delinquency that resulted in the government placing a lien on any current or future property she owns,…

The DC Council's Twitter account has joked about the "joint" hearing going on today, but it's serious business on several counts: Council members are discussing legislation to legalize and regulate the sale of marijuana for recreational…

For 42 years, the Capital Area Food Bank has served food-insecure families in the D.C. region — and doing so during the holiday season in a pandemic is no small feat.

The D.C. Council is hold its first-ever public hearing on a bill to legalize marijuana sales on Friday, kickstarting a process that many city officials, lawmakers, and advocates have been awaiting for years. (There’s more than 100 people…

The D.C. Council is holding a public hearing on two marijuana-related bills Friday morning.

I’m not sure how else to describe it. I’m just sort of Muriel’ed out.

Employee alleges years of verbal harassment, slurs, intimidation

Each morning before heading to a public charter school in southeast Washington, one teacher must decide if she’s going to pay for an Uber, which can be up to $40 during surges, or wait for a Metrorail train.

Dockless scooters and bikes are sticking around in D.C. into next summer, after the District Department of Transportation said the operators of the rentable vehicles were eligible for extensions of their current permits.

The former commanding general of the D.C. National Guard is demanding the retraction of an inspector general report that says Army leaders had to tell him twice to send troops to the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection, saying…