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A new lawsuit alleges D.C. Police bucked the mayor’s commitment to transparency and created a list of reporters, activists and community members whose requests for information were intentionally delayed or dismissed.

The Meyer Foundation has found its new president and CEO after an eight-month search.

D.B. Lee Development has filed for a raze application to make way for a new hotel/residential/commercial project a block west of Nationals Park.

Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration just announced funding for a slew of affordable housing developments, including the first in Ward 3 to be funded by the District’s Housing Production Trust Fund.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced that D.C. will sue a health care company that allegedly failed to pay staff the correct amount of overtime and hazard pay.

A D.C. public defender has filed a federal lawsuit against the District saying that a whistleblower alleges the D.C. police maintain a “watchlist” of reporters, advocates and public officials whose records requests are flagged for “special…

Police, neighbors, and city officials stood on the sidewalk snapping photos and filming, as a tree crew cut down a towering oak tree in D.C.’s Takoma neighborhood last week. The removal was illegal and will carry a hefty fine, according to…

Georgetown University is considering firing an academic over his tweets. If it does so, it will harm not only its own reputation but also the credibility of higher education in general.

It took years of bureaucratic battles, fundraising, and construction, but the nonprofit has finally sold off two homes.

Organizers of the latest campaign to increase D.C.’s tipped minimum wage met a crucial goal this week: With more than 26,000 petition signatures gathered, they’ve rallied enough public support to bring the tipped wage measure — also known…

The District is pledging to create 10 miles of protected bike lanes this year — the most to be built in a single year since the city began building its network of 24 existing miles.

The head of D.C.’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency acknowledged the agency is being investigated for how employees are treated.

It’s been a big week for name announcements in the District: The Washington Commanders (more on that later), Bezos Auditorium at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, and a new Bloomberg Trail.

A defense attorney says in a new lawsuit that the Metropolitan Police Department maintained a “watchlist” of lawyers, activists, and reporters whose requests for public records would be subjected to additional scrutiny, delayed, or…

On the latest episode of Former Metropolitan Police Department Employees Reveal Internal Corruption: A former MPD public records officer is a key witness in a lawsuit claiming the department instituted an unwritten policy to delay and…

A D.C. ambulance was delayed by 11 minutes responding to a dying shooting victim last week after a frantic caller to the D.C. 911 center repeatedly gave the wrong address to a dispatcher, who didn’t catch the mistake and use the technology…

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Wednesday the creation of nearly 800 units of affordable housing as part of the District’s historic investment in the production of homes for low-income residents.

The D.C. attorney general’s office filed suit against two landlords this week for allegedly allowing their properties to fall into dangerous disrepair. The lawsuits accuse one landlord of using harassment and poor living conditions to push…

Police and political leaders from the District and neighboring Prince George’s County are calling for healing, accountability and an overhaul of the criminal justice “ecosystem” in their communities as carjackings continue to spike two…

A D.C. bar that was feted by conservative media as it lost its liquor license for violating vaccine rules was closed by the city’s health department Tuesday for food code violations.