2022

On Nov. 8, D.C. voters will head to the polls to decide several important races, including a tightly contested race for two at-large seats on the D.C. Council and a high-profile ballot initiative on the tipped minimum wage.

Voters will elect two at-large D.C. Council members to represent the entire city in the highly competitive Nov. 8 election.

An unprecedented trial began this week at D.C.’s federal courthouse, where two D.C. police officers face a combination of second-degree murder, obstruction, and conspiracy charges related to the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown.…

Following a history lesson, defense attorney Michael Hannon claimed officers were obligated to stop Hylton-Brown.

DC tourism officials are proposing a temporary hike in the hotel tax to fund more vigorous marketing campaigns — a step they say is necessary in the face of similar initiatives from other travel destinations that have more successfully…

Two years ago, after a young Black man on a moped was fatally injured in a traffic collision during a D.C. police chase, scores of irate protesters converged on a police station in Northwest Washington, clashing with officers in riot gear.…

The agreement allows Metro to put many more trains into passenger service, but it also requires wheel checks to continue every four days

Metro has the green light to bring all the 7000-series trains back to the tracks, with restrictions.

Much of D.C.’s criminal code dates to the original version Congress passed in 1901. That it is badly in need of an overhaul is apparent from its references to “common scolds,” prohibitions against the playing of ballgames in the city’s…

A senior official in Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration has been fired and could face an ethics investigation after he failed to recuse himself from matters related to a large city contract that involved a health insurance company he had…

A D.C. Council committee is moving ahead with plans to debate and vote on a rewrite of the city’s criminal code, something that hasn’t been done in more than a century. There’s widespread agreement that it should be done, and nearly all of…

Four out of five D.C. teachers are unhappy with their jobs and nearly half plan to leave their roles in the next few years, according to a survey the Washington Teachers’ Union conducted in September.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Police Chief Robert Contee are raising specific but strenuous objections to portions of a long-planned overhaul of the city’s 100-year-old criminal code, saying that certain provisions could clog up the courts…

Four out of five D.C. teachers are unhappy with their jobs, according to a Washington Teachers’ Union survey of its members.

It could soon cost more to stay overnight in D.C. hotels, with the extra funds going toward increased marketing efforts to promote the District as a tourist destination.

When D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) asked Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) for legislation wresting control of the District’s parole system from the federal government — naming it critical on “our path to statehood” — she estimated the city…

With three competitive races on the ballot this fall, candidates are staking out some familiar, albeit irrelevant, battle lines.

The D.C. Board of Election sent the wrong ballots to 574 voters, and says it is contacting the impacted voters and will issue them new ballots.

For the second time in roughly four years, D.C. voters will determine how tipped workers get paid, this time through the Initiative 82 ballot measure.

As the DC Council convenes a hearing this afternoon to discuss teacher and principal retention and turnover in the District, a new survey by the Washington Teachers' Union identifies high levels of dissatisfaction among educators.