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After days of back and forth, the D.C. Council on Tuesday landed on a compromise regarding the mayor’s request for money to hire more police officers.

An explanation of the program due to receive a big boost in funding in next year's budget

The photograph that enraged the pastor appeared in The Washington Post society pages on Friday, Nov. 8, 1946, amid items on tea at the Sulgrave Club and tips on removing perspiration stains from silk.

Earlier this summer, Rock Creek Property Group shared plans for what is expected to be a by-right residential development at Georgia Avenue and Fairmont Street NW (map). Now, the raze permit application that will make redevelopment…

D.C. lawmakers have granted initial approval to a budget amendment that would send $500 to laid-off residents who endured excruciatingly long waits for unemployment benefits during the pandemic.

A month ago, covid-19 wards at hospitals across the D.C. region were empty and doctors said they were finally able to take a breath, some hopeful that increased vaccinations meant the worst of the pandemic was behind them. Now, the anxiety…

Convention-goers can now get a half-smoke and 202 t-shirts.

The outgoing owner of the Washington Marriott Wardman Park hotel says Marriott Hotel Services “grossly mismanaged” the shuttered Northwest D.C. property starting before the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new a lawsuit.

"With the mask mandate and overall concern of what could come next, we don’t feel like hashtag D.C. is open.”

University accused of misgendering student

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday slammed conservative media reports that she went maskless indoors last weekend in defiance of her own mandate.

Fans of Velvet Lounge and Dodge City are mourning the pandemic loss of those D.C.-area hangs.

The Council will spend $5 million to hire 60 more cops by next year.

After an extensive monthlong renovation, power lunch and dinner restaurant The Bombay Club reopened this week.

At first glance, 3025 Buena Vista Terrace in Ward 8 might not seem like much. It’s a rectangular plot of land, filled in the summer with an overgrowth of grass and vines, and in the winter with cobwebs of branches. Driving up 30th Street…

Thousands of the city’s littlest learners were missing from schools last fall. As they now begin to return to classrooms, all at varying academic levels, how will educators handle the fallout from the pandemic’s K-shaped recession?

A request from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s for money to hire new police officers over the next year faces a critical vote in the D.C. Council Tuesday, where a pair of lawmakers have already hatched an alternate plan that would give the…

On July 16, workers in the District’s 911 call center received an email announcing changes were coming. Problems staffing the center meant there would be mandatory overtime, even on scheduled days off, and any additional leave would be…

The promotion, available through December, is one more incentive that the region’s leaders are using to get residents back.

The DC Circulator will remain free through at least the end of September, per an emergency order issued by the District’s government on Monday.