2021

Advocates have some thoughts.

The trendy hotel insists it's original art.

A proposal is on the table before the D.C. Council to establish trust funds that would be funded by the District for children in low-to-middle income families.

After a violent weekend, D.C.’s police chief said he is singularly focused on just one case amid echoes of desperation from a community at its wits’ end, a frustrated mayor and grieving families’ call for him to take immediate action.

After a violent weekend in the District and on the eve of a DC Council vote on next year's budget, Mayor Muriel Bowser said she's directing the Metropolitan Police Department "to use any overtime necessary to meet our public safety needs"…

In a letter to the D.C. Council, Mayor Muriel Bowser says she’s directing the Metropolitan Police Department to use as much overtime as necessary after a weekend of violence.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Monday authorized police to use “any overtime necessary” to confront gun violence and to search for the killer of a 6-year-old girl who was shot Friday night in Southeast Washington.

It's feeling like our rate of violent crime is spiraling. Is it?

WASHINGTON (AP) — A police official who has run large departments in Maryland and Virginia has been selected as chief of the U.S. Capitol Police in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection, in which pro-Trump rioters stormed the building…

Restaurant Revitalization Fund grants were for businesses “where people congregate for the primary purpose of being served food or drink.”

Within earshot of D.C. police, a 6-year-old girl was fatally shot as she walked home in Southeast Washington Friday night. The drive-by shooting also left her mother and four other adults injured. In the nation’s capital, gun violence is…

The D.C. Council is set to vote Tuesday on a budget proposal written by chairman Phil Mendelson (D) that reallocates funds toward new initiatives aimed at closing the city’s racial wealth gap — including legislation that would kick-start a…

Housing advocates call councilmembers and residents to action ahead of Tuesday’s Council budget vote

It's hosted celebrities and politicians including presidents Obama and Trump — their likenesses at least — but Madame Tussauds wax museum appears to have permanently burned out in the District.

A rain delay on a baseball game — because it was raining bullets outside — is so very American.

Enrique Tarrio, a leader of the extremist group the Proud Boys, pleaded guilty Monday to burning a Black Lives Matter banner stolen Dec. 12 from a historic African American church in Washington during a tumultuous demonstration by…

Thousands of low-income D.C. children could start getting annual payments of up to $1,000 later this year under a “baby bonds” program that D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson is including in the city’s budget.

It could be early 2022 before the embattled D.C. crime lab regains its full accreditation to perform forensic testing, the lab’s interim director told a panel of science advisers last week.