2022

Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration just announced funding for a slew of affordable housing developments, including the first in Ward 3 to be funded by the District’s Housing Production Trust Fund.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced that D.C. will sue a health care company that allegedly failed to pay staff the correct amount of overtime and hazard pay.

A D.C. public defender has filed a federal lawsuit against the District saying that a whistleblower alleges the D.C. police maintain a “watchlist” of reporters, advocates and public officials whose records requests are flagged for “special…

Police, neighbors, and city officials stood on the sidewalk snapping photos and filming, as a tree crew cut down a towering oak tree in D.C.’s Takoma neighborhood last week. The removal was illegal and will carry a hefty fine, according to…

Georgetown University is considering firing an academic over his tweets. If it does so, it will harm not only its own reputation but also the credibility of higher education in general.

It took years of bureaucratic battles, fundraising, and construction, but the nonprofit has finally sold off two homes.

Organizers of the latest campaign to increase D.C.’s tipped minimum wage met a crucial goal this week: With more than 26,000 petition signatures gathered, they’ve rallied enough public support to bring the tipped wage measure — also known…

A new lawsuit claims that the Metropolitan Police Department has slowed its response to Freedom of Information Act requests from reporters, attorneys and community leaders deemed to have embarrassed or criticized the department.

The District is pledging to create 10 miles of protected bike lanes this year — the most to be built in a single year since the city began building its network of 24 existing miles.

The head of D.C.’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency acknowledged the agency is being investigated for how employees are treated.

It’s been a big week for name announcements in the District: The Washington Commanders (more on that later), Bezos Auditorium at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, and a new Bloomberg Trail.

A defense attorney says in a new lawsuit that the Metropolitan Police Department maintained a “watchlist” of lawyers, activists, and reporters whose requests for public records would be subjected to additional scrutiny, delayed, or…

On the latest episode of Former Metropolitan Police Department Employees Reveal Internal Corruption: A former MPD public records officer is a key witness in a lawsuit claiming the department instituted an unwritten policy to delay and…

A D.C. ambulance was delayed by 11 minutes responding to a dying shooting victim last week after a frantic caller to the D.C. 911 center repeatedly gave the wrong address to a dispatcher, who didn’t catch the mistake and use the technology…