2023

An investigation has found former D.C. deputy mayor John Falcicchio sexually harassed a female employee, according to a summary of findings released Saturday night.

Mayor Muriel Bowser and Ward 8 leaders are looking to build on the momentum from last week’s ribbon cutting of a new retail village, Sycamore & Oak, in the Congress Heights area of Southeast D.C.

Empty store fronts and a quiet grand hall currently define D.C.’s Union Station — now a shell of the once bustling and thriving transportation hub for the nation’s capital.

A report surreptitiously released by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration over the long weekend found that her longtime senior aide sexually harassed a subordinate by making “unwelcome” sexual advances towards her and sending her…

Every year, the District comes alive for Juneteenth.

The D.C. Council last week held its first-ever hearing on a bill that could lead the District to provide reparations to African American residents harmed by slavery, making the city the latest jurisdiction to seriously explore restitution…

John Falcicchio resigned in March after woman’s complaint

Edwin B. Henderson has been called the ‘father of Black basketball,’ and soon, a statue will immortalize him in the nation’s capital

In October 2019, Cleveland Park resident Josefa Ippolito-Shepherd sent an email appeal to her neighbor: Please stop polluting my home with marijuana smoke. “Today, after a short stay outside the house, upon returning and entering my home,…

The D.C. Council will consider a bill that would require the city’s emergency call and dispatch agency to release more information about its own errors.

Families at the sought-after charter school demonstrated over leadership concerns and other issues

The deal would represent a modest victory for a Delta Air Lines-backed coalition that wants more access to the federally owned airport

A new bill from Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto aims to increase transparency at the often-criticized Office of Unified Communications, the agency that operates the District's 911 and 311 call centers.

Workers at the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles say longstanding problems with a decades-old computer system and unresponsive managers are partly to blame for a recent controversy in which the agency did not properly flag multiple DUI…

There’s little traffic out front of The Rise Building at Temple Courts on an overcast Friday, save for an occasional polished sedan with darkened windows rolling by.

When Le’Greg Harrison was growing up in Congress Heights, people would warn him against riding his bicycle through the neighborhood. Back then, he says, many thought of Wards 7 and 8 as unsafe.

The Bowser administration is presenting two downtown events on Monday to commemorate Juneteenth 2023.

House Republicans fell short yesterday in their effort to override President Joe Biden's veto of a resolution disapproving the District's police reform law.

New store, who dis? The new Lidl grocery store coming to Columbia Heights has set an opening date: Wednesday, June 28. It will join another first: the Whole Foods coming to The Parks at Walter Reed, which opens the same day.