2023

Education officials in D.C. say they don’t expect hunger to have any days off this summer — students will have access to free meals at over 100 sites while school is out.

The July 8 event is both a tribute to progress cleaning up the river, and a signal that work still needs to be done

D.C. Water has released a new plan to replace lead pipelines by 2030, including an increase in the cost for the plan to $1.5 billion.

D.C. goes big on the Fourth of July, but it's all about hometown Washington at the 57th-annual Palisades Parade and festivities.

Administration of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) increased the HPAP’s maximum allotment significantly last year — but funds are now unavailable until October

“It’s not safe in D.C.,” said veteran D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8) during a WJLA-TV interview last week. “So, we’re going to ask people to keep their kids in until we create these safe environments.”

As a result of revelations that the DC Department of Motor Vehicles didn't record some drunk driving convictions into its database that would have led to license suspension or revocation, the agency says it's reviewing 15 years' worth of…

Several D.C.-area universities pledged to keep working to diversify their student bodies following the Supreme Court's rejection of the use of affirmative action in admissions.

The D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles says it is reviewing 15 years worth of DUI and other traffic-related convictions to check if they were properly placed on drivers’ records, which in some cases would have triggered a license suspension…

A D.C. bill that aims to provide relief to local restaurants in light of the city increasing the minimum wage for tipped workers is turning out to be almost as contentious as the ballot initiative that dictated that increase, as was…

The DC Department of Human Services won't be reopening applications for the Emergency Rental Assistance Program until the start of the new fiscal year in October — despite the receipt of $33 million in federal funding for rental assistance…

A bill introduced Wednesday would require sexual harassment complaints against mayoral appointees to be investigated by a third party

A fire destroyed the toys left for a girl in a historical Black cemetery. In recent days, strangers have brought her new ones --- and gone beyond that.

The National Park Service is requesting $11.8 million to upgrade D.C. parks east of the Anacostia River. The funding would help chip away at a $405 million maintenance backlog in National Capital Parks – East.

By the time Courtney received a notice last November that she was eligible for D.C.’s down payment assistance program for first time homebuyers, she’d spent close to five months applying.

D.C. public school officials are investigating claims of misconduct at John Eaton Elementary after staff accused their principal of creating a hostile work environment and called for his resignation. A parents association is also calling…

Projects in underserved areas of the Washington region are receiving $25 million in federal funding from a program boosted by the infrastructure law

Mayor Muriel Bowser has asked the D.C. Office of the Inspector General to take a look at sexual harassment allegations surrounding her former chief of staff.