2023

Strong rainstorms this week have scuttled a Saturday swim in the Anacostia River, which would have been the first legally authorized dip into the waterway in more than half a century.

In his June 27 statement before the D.C. Council on Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s crime bill, D.C. Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb said that the mayor’s proposed changes to the city’s juvenile pretrial detention statute “appear intended to…

People were going to be allowed to swim legally in the Anacostia River on Saturday for the first time in half a century, but organizers called off the event because a rainstorm caused raw sewage to overflow into the water.

Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto unveiled a new emergency crime bill Thursday, incorporating many elements of the public safety bill introduced earlier this year by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.

“Innocent unless proven guilty” is the presumption of innocence in courtrooms across the U.S., but members of the D.C. Council are looking for ways to keep dangerous drivers off the road in the meantime.

Pepco will have to pay back ratepayers roughly $800,000, after the D.C. Public Service Commission found the utility violated the law in its management of solar programs in the District.

Rep. James Comer, chairman of the powerful congressional committee that oversees D.C., is preparing to introduce legislation that could ultimately allow the District to build a Washington Commanders football stadium or another mixed-use…

D.C. Council member Brianne Nadeau introduced emergency legislation Thursday to further review sexual harassment allegations made against Mayor Muriel Bowser’s former chief of staff and deputy mayor for planning and economic development.

More than seven years after Mayor Muriel Bowser first pitched a plan to build family homeless shelters in every ward across D.C., Ward 2 is finally set to receive its own iteration.

Bread for the City, a D.C. nonprofit that provides food, medical, and social services to low-income residents, has filed a lawsuit against the city for sending armed D.C. police officers as “default” first responders to the scene of mental…

The American Civil Liberties Union of D.C. filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the District of Columbia on behalf of a local nonprofit that has asserted the city’s system of sending police officers as the “default first responders”…

Last fall, a majority of then-newly elected ANC 3C advisory neighborhood commissioners posed for an infamous picture giving the finger to a Cleveland Park business’ storefront window poster that opposed the planned Connecticut Avenue bike…

Drivers getting or renewing their license in the District will soon see a “uniquely D.C.” design that the Department of Motor Vehicles said will help protect from identity theft.

D.C. has shifted trash and recycling pickup to 6am this summer in anticipation of hot days and poor air quality.

We now know what happened to the people who were forced out of a park near the White House, and it’s concerning

The Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, a new addition to the D.C. skyline will soon adorn the District’s driver’s license and ID cards. D.C.’s official bird, the wood thrush, joins cherry blossoms, which were on the last generation of the…

The continuous enrollment provisions implemented during the pandemic wound down as of April.

Thousands across the D.C.area have lost Medicaid coverage in recent months, as pandemic protections that allowed people to stay enrolled without reapplying came to a close. Known as “Medicaid unwinding,” states are resuming annual Medicaid…

About 72,000 D.C. residents stood to benefit from President Biden's loan forgiveness plan before it was struck down by the Supreme Court last week.