2021

Mayor Muriel Bowser and DC leaders asked the U.S. House to pass statehood legislation for the second time in recent years on Monday, fielding criticism from Republicans that the District shouldn’t be a state because it would be…

When D.C. residents awaiting coronavirus vaccinations turn to trackers that show the state-by-state progress of inoculations, they see alarming numbers.

Washington (CNN) — Rep. Jody Hice had an interesting Monday.

Lawmakers on the House Oversight and Reform Committee debated legislation Monday that would make Washington the 51st state.

A hearing in Congress raises many fanciful tests for full constitutional rights.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supporters of the District of Columbia’s quest for statehood believe the time is right to bring this long-simmering and racially charged issue to fruition. But Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser’s clashes with Republicans at…

It’s been a year and a half since the last time a House of Representatives committee held a hearing about D.C. statehood, far less time than the decades that passed between the lower chamber’s previous airing of the arguments for and…

Monica Roaché does not want to be yanked back into Maryland. No thank you, no way.

House Democrats pledge to vote on a statehood bill before the summer, providing advocates a possible way forward

Legislation that would make D.C. the nation’s 51st state was the focus of a congressional hearing Monday, which supporters of statehood hope will build public support for the bill ahead of a House voter later this year.

D.C. statehood advocates and Democratic lawmakers painted D.C. statehood as a matter of moral urgency and of racial justice in a House hearing Monday, pushing back against Republican arguments that the cause is purely partisan and…

Thirty years after Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton first introduced a bill for Washington, D.C., statehood, she returns to Capitol Hill to do it again — this time with the broadest support for the cause to date.

An investigator called Kiss Lounge "a dumpster fire of violations."

The so-called strike force may recommend amending the ban to allow landlords to file evictions against tenants who pose “substantial threats to health and safety.”

One of the last multifamily properties owned by controversial landlord Sanford Capital is slated to be sold at a foreclosure auction next month, nearly three years after the Bethesda-based ownership group agreed under a court-approved…

Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, from the blockbuster hit “Transformers,” are hard to miss, standing roughly 6 and 10 feet tall respectively outside the home of Dr. Newton Howard, a Georgetown University professor with a focus in artificial…

Angela Franco will stay on as permanent head of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, after leading the organization in an interim capacity for the last nine months following the abrupt resignation of Vincent Orange.

On March 15, 2020, four days after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a public health emergency in the District, Ana Owens and Katie Gentsch created a Google Sheet.