2021

There is talk in the Wilson Building of raising taxes on the wealthy to make up for revenue losses due to the pandemic.

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — Deputy Mayor Chris Geldart watched the ABC7 investigation that aired Monday, raising concerns about D.C.'s 911 call center in the wake of an audit examining mishandled calls, dispatch delays, and poor response times.

The D.C. Council’s Office of Racial Equity issued a report tackling the challenges that Black and brown communities are encountering as they try to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

Metrorail managers continue to ignore safety guidelines and put workers at risk despite Metro’s pledge to change a stubborn culture within its main control center, according to a commission that monitors safety at the transit agency.

Former career Justice Department official Channing D. Phillips will return to a third tour as acting U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., on Wednesday and serve until confirmation of a permanent top federal prosecutor for the District, the…

According to adherents of QAnon, the false internet conspiracy theory that has been linked to violent acts including murder and kidnapping, March 4 is going to be a big day: the “true inauguration” of President Donald Trump for another…

Three women, including a photographer who said she lost vision after being shot with a rubber bullet, sued the District and its former police chief last week for injuries they say they suffered at a May protest following the death of…

Baseball fans that have eagerly waited to catch a Washington Nationals home game will likely have to wait a little longer.

As a Black state lawmaker, I see statehood for Washington, D.C., and its mostly racial minority residents as a racial justice and civil rights issue.

The District of Columbia has denied for now the Washington Nationals’ request to host fans at a limited capacity in Nationals Park when the season begins in April, doing so in a letter Tuesday while promising to revisit the question in…

The D.C. government will expand bereavement leave for public employees who lose a child but will not broaden the more generous leave to include the loss of other family members, as some city lawmakers had advocated.

It took 14 minutes and four 911 dispatches to different locations to hone-in on an injured pedestrian, lying in the middle of a highway running through the nation’s capital.

A D.C.-based apartment management company says it mistakenly circulated flyers saying it would refuse to rent units to tenants using housing vouchers, a violation of D.C. law.

When the Washington Nationals run onto the field at Nats Park on Opening Day, their fans might not be there to cheer for them.

Since the last time UrbanTurf took a look at the South Capitol Street corridor, over 1,900 residential units have delivered across six projects — and there are still plenty of more residences to come.

Locals, including one councilmember, got livid over a flyer advertising rental units at a Foggy Bottom building last night on Twitter. The advertisement for one to two months of free rent said the offer wasn’t good for voucher holders.

A D.C. company is revising its response to the offer of millions of dollars in tax breaks as part of a move to a new headquarters in the District: Thanks but no thanks.

DC's anti-noise bill is back on the docket, and seemingly less suppressive.

Inaction and a lack of planning contributed to the deaths of 18 individuals at St. Elizabeths, the District’s only public psychiatric hospital, according to a new report from Disability Rights D.C., the federally mandated watchdog group…