2023

The District’s Department of Parks and Recreation bills itself as “the agency where the fun happens.” But for parents trying to get their children a slot in one of the department’s summer camps, the experience has often been anything but. …

DC Health Link updated members Friday on the serious breach of confidential data that occurred this week.

As dozens of House Republicans gathered in the Capitol building’s Statuary Hall on Friday to celebrate Congress blocking D.C.’s revised criminal code, they made one thing clear: D.C. should buckle up.

When D.C. embarked on a years-long process to overhaul its criminal code, one of the things city council members set out to do was remove from the books antiquated laws that are no longer relevant to modern society. But with Congress…

The Pug owner Tony Tomelden got a letter this week from an unexpected source: D.C.’s Office of the Attorney General. The letter and accompanying fliers sought to educate and warn businesses about service charges — fees that became…

Ward 4 Councilmember Janeese Lewis George reintroduced legislation that would require residents remove lead pipes under their homes as a city program offering discounts goes largely unused.

Congress’s decision to overturn the District’s criminal-code reform was hardly the lowest or most intrusive intervention in the city’s 50-year home rule history. This week’s rejection pales, in severity, to the historic 1995 move by…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia), the conservative firebrand who has downplayed the severity of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, is demanding that Mayor Muriel Bowser allow her and other Republicans to visit some two-dozen Jan.…

D.C. Housing Authority officials say they plan to comply with local and federal rules requiring the agency to ensure rents for low-income voucher holders are not paid at above-market rates, but they are not ready to detail how.

D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb is cracking down on murky restaurant service fees.

There's a new DC Council bill at risk of congressional disapproval initiated by House Republicans.

On top of taxes and preparing spring break plans, parents know it’s also the time of year to start signing their kids up for summer camp. And in D.C., high demand is prompting the city to change to a lottery system.

Move comes on heels of congressional rejection of new District criminal code

Residents in city’s suburbs in Maryland and Virginia say they feel safer than those living in the nation’s capital

Two Republican U.S. House members, Andrew Clyde of Georgia and Andrew Garbarino of New York, introduced a joint resolution Thursday that would block several police reforms passed by the D.C. Council last year.

A new GOP-led effort in Congress would overturn local police reforms in Washington, D.C., that were enacted after the police murder of George Floyd.

D.C. is moving to a lottery-based system for its summer camp sign-ups, ending a free-for-all that had left many kids without a spot.

The DC Department of Human Services (DHS) announced yesterday that the last day to submit new applications for the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) is tomorrow, Mar. 10, at 11:59 p.m., according to a press release.