2023

The draft emerged out of a strategy session agency director Brenda Donald sought with landlords

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is threatening to subpoena the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia after the Justice Department declined to make him available to testify at a hearing scheduled this month on…

Several D.C. Council members raised questions about the plan this week, days after the mayor organized support for the competing K Street Transitway project

D.C. is home to more than a half-million people living above the poverty line who still struggle to afford basics, analysis finds

D.C. lawmakers are scrambling to find additional funding for emergency rental assistance and housing vouchers in the budget for the coming year, expressing concerns that cuts to both programs proposed by Mayor Muriel Bowser could lead to a…

The Metro Board of Directors is asking the D.C. Council to delay for a year a plan to make Metrobuses free of charge within city limits, dealing a blow to an initiative that was popular with lawmakers but had faced a number of mounting…

The Washington Commanders say they are supporting efforts by the District of Columbia to get control of the RFK Stadium site that used to be the NFL team’s home.

The beleaguered DC Housing Authority will have new leadership sooner than expected, with an announcement last night that executive director Brenda Donald will step down sometime this summer.

The Washington Commanders are lobbying federal legislators to give D.C. control over the RFK Stadium site, which would pave the way for the city to offer it as a potential new home for the team.

Less than two weeks out from the D.C. Council’s first vote on next year’s budget, the future of the city’s independent (unaccredited, beleaguered) crime lab remains in limbo.

Incarcerated people must now apply for early release from far-flung federal prisons rather than the D.C. Jail, making the process all the more difficult.

D.C. Housing Authority Director Brenda Donald will depart the agency this summer, according to a late night announcement from officials.

Donald is departing after less than two years on the job and with the agency under fire

Providence Health System has decided to cut bait on a long-promised but slow-to-deliver health care campus that would’ve replaced its now-defunct Northeast D.C. hospital — and is laying groundwork to exit the market and hand off its…

D.C. officials say hotels meant to provide migrant families who have been bused to the region with temporary housing have been filled to capacity.

Organizations that serve domestic violence survivors say they have an annual ritual.

Washington-area lawmakers are on a collision course with representatives from Texas and out West over the reach of Reagan National Airport.

Howard University has announced its next president, Ben Vinson III, a current provost, vice president, and history professor at Case Western Reserve University. Vinson, a historian of the African diaspora in Latin America, will take over…

The D.C. Council unanimously passed emergency legislation Tuesday that aims to ensure that food delivery companies like DoorDash and UberEats don’t overcharge restaurants for basic services.

District officials have stopped placing migrant families arriving on buses from Texas and Arizona and by other means in hotels meant as temporary lodging, telling those people that there is no more room, the city’s Department of Human…