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The D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences has been at the center of a criminal investigation by the District inspector general and recently lost its accreditation

My 6-year-old noticed the raised dots first.

The U.S. attorney’s office in Maryland has formed a regional task force to prosecute carjackings that span the District and the two Maryland counties that border it as crime rates in the area continue to spike.

Starting Friday, fully vaccinated (meaning two weeks past a last dose) fans can go maskless in all parts of Nationals Park — indoors or outdoors. The park made the announcement Wednesday, in line with D.C.’s newest mask guidance.

The Washington Nationals are changing their face mask policy at Nationals Park starting Friday for the team’s upcoming home games, in accordance with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Monday announcement about mask requirements in the District.

An employee with the D.C. police department was sentenced Wednesday for illegally giving out personal information on traffic accident victims in exchange for more than $40,000 in cash bribes over a two-year period.

Art lovers who despaired over the closure of D.C.'s art museums during the COVID pandemic can now book a return to their favorite museum.

Foggy Bottom’s first food hall is slated to open later this summer — almost a year after its original debut date.

Five years of contentious debate finally came to an end Tuesday, when members of the D.C. Council unanimously approved changes to the city’s Comprehensive Plan.

Government leaders in Richmond, Annapolis and the District are wrestling with a side effect of the coronavirus pandemic that they did not anticipate: excess revenue.

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson’s efforts to cut into D.C.’s blanket eviction moratorium failed yesterday with an amendment largely backed by the body’s most progressive members.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg joined D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser at the construction site of the new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge on Wednesday. They toured the bridge, and Bowser delivered a speech about the American Jobs…

Nearly 90 former federal prosecutors are asking Attorney General Merrick Garland and the acting U.S. attorney in Washington to abandon a Trump-era policy of charging certain gun crimes in federal court amid concerns about long prison…

The General Services Administration has backed off a plan to move three federal agencies from their decadeslong home after it had sparked back-to-back lawsuits from their current landlord. The GSA filed notice in the U.S. District Court…

Head’s up D.C. — or maybe heads down.

Engaged citizens and government gadflys, take note: while can get a drink in a bar or go into a business in most of the Washington region, it may still be a while longer before you’ll be able to march into a county building or city hall…

Delivery of bill to Congress was held up due to protocols related to Jan. 6 riots

The Kennedy Street corridor is a section of DC that has seen a lot of development action in the past few years, and a new condo project looks to add more residences to the strip.

D.C.-based Eaternity — The Social Restaurant Group, which owns La Vie, Provision 14 and Bar Bao, has signed a lease for a waterfront restaurant at the recently completed RiverPoint apartment building in Buzzard Point.

Howard University plans to stand up a new hub for applied data sciences — and one of its first degrees will be shaped by Amazon Web Services, the school and company told the Washington Business Journal.