2023

The city’s Office of the Inspector General is set to hire a law firm to probe accusations against the mayor’s right hand man.

The city’s inspector general is instructed to hire a third party to review findings by the Mayor’s Office of Legal Counsel related to harassment claims against John Falcicchio.

The region’s Senators and Airport Authority officials came out against a proposal to expand the number of flights at Washington National Airport. They held a press conference at the airport Monday afternoon.

Legislation introduced Monday would offer District agencies stricter enforcement power against repeat offenders in an effort to reduce dangerous driving.

With a potential vote in Congress this week, senators from Maryland and Virginia are attacking a plan to add more long-haul flights to Reagan National Airport.

Amid signs of broad agreement among DC Council members on most elements of the public safety bill up for consideration at today's legislative meeting, Ward 4 Councilmember Janeese Lewis George is pushing to remove changes to rules…

The D.C. Council is expected to vote Tuesday afternoon on an emergency bill proponents say would address what many officials call a public safety crisis in the city; violent crime is up 33% and homicides 17% higher than the same time last…

As homicides and carjackings in D.C. continue to rise, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) worked to shore up support for emergency legislation that would create a new penalty for firing a gun in public and make it easier to detain some people as…

As the Council gets ready to pass some of Bowser’s anti-crime measures, where’s the discussion about how to solve more crimes?

Transit agency considers six options to address projected crowding and capacity limits on Blue, Orange and Silver lines

Late this year, Metro’s board will decide whether to embark on its biggest rail expansion since the Silver Line.

As chief, Contee did not impose meaningful discipline against many officers despite official findings of wrongdoing, according to the Office of Police Complaints director, protecting repeat offenders and allowing sustained misconduct to go…

Some officers were suspended, but some only received a letter in their personnel file.

A proposal before the D.C. Council aims to give more enforcement power to city agencies to target repeat offenders, including drivers who accumulate fines for speeding and reckless driving

Precious American artifacts would have a new $72 million home under a proposal being advanced in D.C.

The DC Council will take up emergency public safety legislation tomorrow as part of a lengthy agenda at the final legislative meeting before its summer recess.

The displays of Barbie and her crew at the pond have delighted neighbors, made the must-see lists of tourists and even played a role in a wedding proposal

The neighborhood has less than 1% of the city’s designated affordable housing units.

Several D.C. restaurant owners have recently been slapped with steep fines over alleged wage theft in what the industry sees as a surprise move by the city’s Department of Employment Services.