2023

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is calling on the U.S. Senate not to vote for a resolution — already approved by the House — that would prevent the District from implementing a new criminal code that includes lighter mandatory penalties for some…

The transit agency said four lines will be affected for the three-week project, which will start Monday

A controversial overhaul of Washington’s criminal code needs to be fixed.

There is nothing new about reports of waste, inefficiency and poor living conditions in public housing and related federal low-income housing assistance programs. Hardly any housing authority in the country has been free of such issues.…

Presidents’ Day weekend was no holiday for D.C. crime — and certainly no timeout for juvenile offenders. A fuller accounting of how both are handled by the city’s juvenile justice system is overdue.

It’s been just under five months since the District’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs broke up into two smaller agencies — and reviews of the change, at least so far, are mixed.

The rent is already too damn high, and the Rental Housing Commission just OK’d a historic rent increase.

Metro riders might be able to move freely between rail cars when the new 8000 series trains are introduced into Metro’s fleet.

Mayor Muriel Bowser, Attorney General Brian Schwalb and all 13 members of the DC Council sent letters yesterday to Senate leaders opposing the pending resolutions of disapproval that would derail two recently enacted laws.

A new bill introduced by D.C. Councilmember Vincent Gray (D-Ward 7) seeks to beef up the ranks of the Metropolitan Police Department by offering retiring officers a bonus equal to a year’s pay to stay on the force for five more years. The…

Metro is exploring a drastic change to its upcoming new 8000-series trains: an open gangway. Open gangway trains have no doors between cars, allowing riders to freely move through parts of or the entire length of the train. It can improve…

Melani Bey went back on the ice to skate one last loop. Then one more.

The burglary at D Light Café & Bakery in late January was yet another incident that made Vira Derun feel less safe at her business. She runs the café in D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood with her sister, Anastasiia, and can recount…

“It’s a bad bill,” Chairman Phil Mendelson says.

Gun violence has increased significantly in the District over the last five years.

Two new lawsuits allege that D.C. fails to provide special education services to students incarcerated in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, violating federal law and denying students their right to education.