2022

Nora Vencill has noticed a peculiar dynamic develop in her ninth grade English class at Poolesville High School in Montgomery County.

Amid the economic fallout from business closures at the onset of the pandemic, record levels of unemployment claims overwhelmed the DC Department of Employment Services, fueling complaints about long waits on the phone and conflicting…

Ultraconservative Republicans, eagerly anticipating taking control of the House in this November’s midterm elections, are proclaiming a desire to cut back or eliminate the limited home rule that Congress granted D.C. in 1973. If the Senate…

For the community selected to host a new FBI headquarters, it would be the economic development win of a generation.

More traffic cameras, booting of vehicles, crossing guards, and bike and bus lanes are among the mayor’s initiatives for the 2023 fiscal year

The drive to build a new FBI headquarters has been hung up for years, but a U.S. senator from Maryland said it’s still on the way, and “There’s no turning back.”

The Barclay, a 56-unit rent controlled apartment building near Dupont Circle, was sold three times in the last 20 years—most recently in 2021. I wanted to see if and how tenants used the District’s Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA)…

Greater Washington Partnership CEO JB Holston is stepping down, with Thursday as his last day, though he’ll stay on as a senior adviser to the board and leadership through the end of the year, per the leadership's request, the organization…

The kids have been saying it throughout the pandemic: They’re not okay.

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson has called for a vote next Tuesday on emergency legislation that would allow the city to close down virtually any business that gives gifts of marijuana starting in mid-May, while at the same time…

A wealth divide in D.C. has resulted in far fewer families of color making the leap into homeownership. The city’s mayor hopes to change that through a new homeowner initiative.

Mayor Muriel Bowser wants D.C. to have 4,000 police officers, but her police chief detailed on Wednesday the challenges of reaching that goal. Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Contee told the Council during a budget hearing that…

D.C. public schools were in disrepair. Textbooks took forever to move from warehouses to classrooms. New teachers’ paychecks got lost in the system, and daily student attendance went largely untracked. There was no uniform curriculum and…

Under a best-case scenario, D.C.’s crime lab might not be cleared to handle DNA and seized drugs until next spring — nearly two years after a national board pulled the lab’s accreditation to perform forensic casework amid allegations lab…