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This week's heat wave brought DC some record-breaking temperatures for early September, but it also helped fuel renewed complaints about DC Public Schools with faulty air-conditioning systems in some classrooms.

As police continue to search for a murder suspect who escaped yesterday from George Washington University Hospital, the Metropolitan Police Department's acting chief acknowledged that officers had not secured the man to a gurney when…

A citywide coalition of 97 advisory neighborhood commissioners is calling on Mayor Muriel Bowser and the DC Council to resolve "grave concerns" about the performance and dependability of the city's 911 call center operated by the Office of…

Amid forecasts of a record-setting heatwave this week, the DC Department of Parks and Recreation announced plans to keep two outdoor pools and 18 spray parks open past Labor Day.

Mayor Muriel Bowser has long called for the federal government to return more of its workers to the office, and a new regional push organized by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments is seeking to make the same case.

Mayor Muriel Bowser marked the start of the new school year this morning with a ribbon-cutting at Ward 4's Raymond Elementary, site of a $63 million modernization newly completed in time for the school's centennial.

With 162 homicides so far in 2023 and a particularly violent start to August, the District has already matched or exceeded the full-year tallies recorded between 2009 and 2018.

The DC Office of the Inspector General late last week released its formal request seeking an outside firm to review the two internal investigations that upheld sexual harassment complaints by two employees against John Falcicchio, former…

DC's federal courthouse on Constitution Avenue is taking center stage with this afternoon's scheduled arraignment of former President Donald Trump, prompting a national and international media frenzy as he faces charges of conspiring to…

The Mayor's Office of Legal Counsel has substantiated allegations from a second employee of sexual harassment by John Falcicchio, former deputy mayor of planning and economic development and chief of staff to Mayor Muriel Bowser.

Just days after the sale of the Washington Commanders, newly introduced bipartisan legislation in the House calls for a 99-year extension of the District's lease for the sprawling RFK Stadium site that would allow mixed-use development…

The DC Board of Elections ruled Friday that a proposed initiative on ranked choice voting and open primaries is suitable as a ballot measure, an initial step in enabling proponents to begin circulating petitions among registered voters to…

Mayor Muriel Bowser yesterday signed two emergency bills passed by the DC Council last week amid concerns over the rise in homicides and other violent crime so far this year.

A bipartisan coalition in the House of Representatives fell short in their attempt to force the addition of new flights at Reagan National Airport and the relaxation of the long-standing "perimeter rule" that limits long-distance flights. …

"I come to bury you, not praise you," advisory neighborhood commissioner Joe Bishop-Henchman said this morning of Dave Thomas Circle as DC officials kicked off a long-awaited project to remake the intersection.

DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb is suing more than 25 companies for manufacturing "forever chemicals" that he says are contaminating the District's waterways and other natural resources.

Mayor Muriel Bowser today named Pamela Smith to head the Metropolitan Police Department, choosing a candidate who joined the agency in May 2022 as its first chief equity officer after retiring from the U.S. Park Police.

GOP leaders in the House tout an array of DC-related provisions in the latest appropriations bill as supporting conservative values and priorities, but local officials are decrying them as a broad attack on the District's autonomy.

Weeks after a House subcommittee approved an appropriations bill with multiple policy riders restricting the DC government as well as cuts to requested federal spending for DC's courts, the full House Committee on Appropriations is marking…

The DC Council voted yesterday to approve a trio of public safety bills proposed by Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto as emergency legislation.