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Metro will pay D.C. police officers overtime to beef up patrols in five rail stations during rush hours.

Outside the National Mall, it can be nearly impossible to find a public bathroom in D.C. But a new bill could change this reality by increasing the number of public restrooms across the city.

The D.C. Council voted 12-1 on Tuesday in favor of temporarily extending legislation it passed last spring requiring daily hotel room cleaning, a measure that has pitted labor unions against hotel operators already thinly staffed due to…

Case numbers are still down significantly from historic highs

The D.C. Council passed emergency legislation Tuesday to spend $850,000 to design suicide barriers on the William Howard Taft Bridge.

D.C. has dropped from high to moderate among jurisdictions dealing with HIV, according to health experts who gathered on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day to release the latest data.

After several years of declining infections, a new report illuminates how the pandemic has impaired the city’s efforts to eliminate HIV/AIDS, and widened the already existing disparities between Black and white patients.

Kevon King is co-owner of the Village Cafe and Lab, located at Union Market in Northeast Washington. The cafe not only serves good food but also buys much of its fresh produce and coffee beans locally. The lab provides space for…

A House committee on Monday night advanced two disapproval resolutions seeking to repeal a pair of bills passed by the D.C. Council, sending the measures to the full House for a vote later this week. At the same time, the White House said…

D.C.'s inclusionary zoning program has ramped up production of housing units — but the program isn't serving all income levels that most need affordable homes.

Charter teachers are underpaid, but the union’s backers wonder whether it’s fair to give them benefits they didn’t negotiate for.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser on Monday announced a bill to amend several aspects of the criminal code revision approved by the D.C. Council in November — changes she says will address her concerns about the overhaul as congressional lawmakers…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday unveiled a package of changes she’d like to see made to the recently passed overhaul of the city’s century-old criminal code, just as House Republicans are pushing to repeal the overhaul in its entirety. …

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants criminals to be held accountable, and she says the changes she’s proposing to the District’s new criminal code to increase penalties for certain crimes will send that message.

Unhoused people and social service providers are searching for options after the National Park Service pushed up by several months a planned clearing of one of D.C.’s largest homeless encampments.

The organizers behind famed music festival Coachella are taking legal action against D.C.’s own Moechella event in a trademark infringement case.

A bill reintroduced to Congress this week seeks to give D.C.’s mayor control over the District’s own National Guard force.

As a first-time mayoral candidate in 2014, Muriel E. Bowser minced no words when she opposed efforts to weaken a century-old federal law restricting how high buildings can rise in Washington.

The local music festival came out of a 2019 protest against gentrification

The District would join other cities and states seeking to swap gas stoves and other fossil fuel-dependent devices for electric appliances, under a bill introduced Friday that is sure to add to a culture war already simmering in America’s…