2021

Mayor Muriel Bowser and six DC Council members have funds for constituents' needs — such as utility payments and rent — that are sitting with over $300,000 in them during the pandemic.

Members of agencies keeping D.C. safe got some swag courtesy of the 2019 World Series champions the Washington Nationals.

Metro’s general manager said Friday he pitched the idea of using the transit agency’s facilities to carry out coronavirus vaccinations during a meeting with newly confirmed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg thanked frontline bus and rail workers at Union Station on Friday during his first official public event since his swearing-in on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — After going viral in a Twitter video last month definitively proclaiming she would "carry Glock to Congress," freshman Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) has been issued a concealed carry permit by DC Police, according to Acting…

Advocates of legalized gambling say COVID-19 slowed the rollout of sports betting in the District, but they remain optimistic things will turn around.

Emails obtained by PEER in a public records lawsuit are giving greater insight into U.S. Park Police response to last summer's racial justice protests.

The city of DC says gym employees and clients repeatedly defied mask and social-distancing rules.

(CNN) — The former chief of the US Capitol Police provided Congress the clearest timeline yet of the events leading up to and including the January 6 insurrection, casting blame on four federal agencies and a slow bureaucracy that harmed…

The General Services Administration is embarking on yet another phase of the long-stalled effort to relocate the FBI headquarters from its 45-year home in downtown Washington, teeing off a complex lobbying battle over the jobs and…

Local officials have hundreds of thousands of dollars sitting in their constituent services funds. They can help with overdue rent and unpaid utility bills.

The fight over D.C.’s eviction moratorium is escalating as the city approaches the one-year anniversary of its pandemic-driven ban on the practice.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has introduced a bill that would simplify the sealing of criminal records for some people arrested in the District whose cases were never prosecuted or who were acquitted of the charges.

The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t been kind to municipal and state budgets, but this week D.C. lawmakers got an unexpected surprise: word of a half-billion-dollar budget surplus.

For a more than two decades I’ve said that former D.C. police chief Charles H. Ramsey, now a frequent guest expert on talk shows, made one mistake that would affect people of color and the effectiveness of the police department in our…

A highlight of Inauguration Day was Amanda Gorman’s delivery of her poem “The Hill We Climb,” which ignited interest in news anchors and home viewers alike. Gorman’s biographical note of having been selected as the first national youth…