2023

Cities across the nation face a dilemma: Downtown office buildings are empty as workers prefer to stay home. Nearly all local leaders agree part of the solution is an office-to-apartment conversion boom. Cities have started rolling out tax…

D.C. has received a $9.7 million grant from the Department of Education that city leaders say will be used to help recruit and retain mental health professionals to work in the city’s schools.

President’s opposition is part of a tough-on-crime sentiment that is increasingly shaping the political landscape

Only three years ago, D.C. statehood advocates celebrated when the House voted to grant the city congressional representation, a historic show of support that was repeated the following year when lawmakers approved the measure.

Ernest Chrappah, the acting director of the city’s new Department of Buildings, wrote to the agency’s staff Friday that he plans to leave his post at an unspecified future date, according to a copy of the letter reviewed by The Washington…

D.C. public health officials plan to close the city’s eight covid centers on March 31 because of a drop in new infections and the widespread availability of vaccines and home testing kits, according to a D.C. Health statement released…

Meyer’s frustration with the laggard pace of change and slight government attention to a boiling kettle of Black discontent spilled out

D.C. is closing up all of its COVID centers by the end of the month

Congress’ expected vote next week to overturn District of Columbia laws dealing with criminal justice and voting has created a political tempest in the nation’s capital — and reflects a contentious political dynamic that is playing out…

Four D.C. lawmakers are pushing to reverse the council’s decision made over the last two years to gradually pull police officers out of the city’s public schools, rekindling a simmering debate that has only intensified with the spike in…

President Biden announced Thursday that he will not stand in the way of a congressional effort to nullify D.C.’s new criminal code, paving the way for Congress to block a D.C. law — for the first time since 1991 — from taking effect.…

Several District of Columbia elected officials reacted quickly and critically to President Joe Biden after he said he would sign a Republican-led resolution that would block D.C.’s revision of criminal sentencing laws from taking effect.

With the potential sale of the Washington Commanders in a state of uncertainty, the team’s stadium search appears similarly stuck in limbo. But whenever the stadium discussion resumes, a three-jurisdiction race may become a real…

Whistleblowers, joined by D.C. officials, alleged Saylor lived lavishly in the city while dodging taxes

The limits of DC's home rule were on full display yesterday as President Joe Biden expressed his intent to sign the GOP-initiated disapproval of DC's Revised Criminal Code Act while at the same time reiterating his support for DC…

D.C.’s Department of Transportation is inching toward the reconstruction of the H Street Bridge, a critical infrastructure project that would pave the way for a planned $10 billion upgrade and expansion of neighboring Union Station and the…

Four D.C. lawmakers are backing a proposal that would keep police officers in schools, reversing a measure that sought to remove law enforcement from campuses by 2025.

In a move that represents a significant setback to D.C.’s ability to govern itself, President Joe Biden said Thursday that he won’t veto a Republican-sponsored measure making its way through Congress to block the sweeping D.C. bill that…

The number of riders on the system remains at about half of pre-pandemic ridership because of widespread telework