2023

From this point on, the history of Washington, D.C. could credibly be divided into two distinct eras: BDTC, and ADTC. And on Wednesday, residents and city officials happily bid goodbye to the first and welcomed the second, as work started…

The attorney general’s office alleged the companies made products that contained dangerous chemicals and hid health risks from the public

The project will address safety issues at one of D.C.'s most hazardous intersections, where a Wendy’s restaurant closed two years ago

It’s been a losing month in Congress for local leaders.

D.C. Council members are looking to crack down on fake temporary vehicle tags, proposing new legislation that allows city workers to immediately tow and impound vehicles in the District that display counterfeits.

"I come to bury you, not praise you," advisory neighborhood commissioner Joe Bishop-Henchman said this morning of Dave Thomas Circle as DC officials kicked off a long-awaited project to remake the intersection.

Officials and activists associated with the D.C. Democratic Party on Tuesday expressed their opposition to a proposal for ranked choice voting and open primaries to be adopted for the city’s elections, arguing that a proposed ballot…

Facing opposition from the D.C. region’s congressional delegation, proponents are backing off a plan that would have added 28 daily round trips

Some of us may remember incessantly refreshing D.C.’s various COVID data dashboards every afternoon, trying to make sense of the bar graphs jumping up (bad) or down (good), as charts moved from yellow, to red, to green, to yellow again,…

A new compromise proposal under consideration in Congress would add more flights at Reagan National Airport — but far fewer than originally proposed.

Employees of beloved D.C. sandwich shop Compliments Only are trying to form a union and seeking a $21 per hour wage.

Some bumbles by local politicos helped the disgraced former councilmember notch an easy win in his comeback tour.

DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb is suing more than 25 companies for manufacturing "forever chemicals" that he says are contaminating the District's waterways and other natural resources.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has nominated former U.S. Park Police chief Pamela A. Smith to lead the city’s police force.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday nominated Pamela Smith to serve as chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, tapping the former chief of the U.S. Park Police and current ordained minister to replace former chief Robert Contee at a…

Smith spent 24 years with the U.S. Park Police before joining D.C. police in May 2022. If confirmed by the D.C. Council, she would be the second woman and the first Black woman to permanently run the agency.

Despite his pending court claim of actual innocence, ANC Leonard Bishop says he is scheduled for transfer to a prison in Kentucky.

Mayor Muriel Bowser today named Pamela Smith to head the Metropolitan Police Department, choosing a candidate who joined the agency in May 2022 as its first chief equity officer after retiring from the U.S. Park Police.

Prosecutors are dropping dozens of criminal cases, and courts are reversing guilty judgments due to alleged police misconduct.

GOP leaders in the House tout an array of DC-related provisions in the latest appropriations bill as supporting conservative values and priorities, but local officials are decrying them as a broad attack on the District's autonomy.