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A woman has filed a lawsuit against the District of Columbia Housing Authority and the police department, challenging a network of security cameras that she said has resulted in “a severe invasion of residents’ privacy in their most sacred…

Some groups have had to reduce the number of students they serve and scale back programming.

The number of homicides in the District and neighboring Prince George’s County dropped in 2022 but remained high compared with pre-pandemic years, as leaders struggled to confront gun violence and carjackings involving youth.

The District’s new Department of Buildings believes it has an answer to its staffing woes: train college students and recent graduates.

With just a few days left in his tenure, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is wrapping up more of the many lawsuits he filed against corporations in recent years. The latest? A $9.5 million settlement with Google to resolve allegations…

Three men were killed Thursday night and early Friday in separate shootings across the District, pushing the annual homicide count in the city to over 200 for the second consecutive year.

D.C. isn’t the same city as it was 10 years ago, and it won’t be the same in the coming years either.

The food delivery service Grubhub has agreed to pay an $800,000 civil penalty along with $2.7 million to consumers to settle a lawsuit brought in March by D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine, who alleged that the company charged customers…

Roughly 170 animals — including dogs, cats, snakes and rabbits — are looking for new homes, as adoptions drop and returns rise

Washington-area roadways are famous for their ability to instill fear. Try negotiating the confusing noodle soup of I-395-695-295 on any given rush hour. Or the curve-a-thon section of the Capital Beltway just east of Interstate 270.

For the second year in a row, the District of Columbia has surpassed 200 homicides, something that hasn’t happened in 20 years. And as 2022 winds to a close, the head of the District’s police union says the D.C. Council is at fault.

A D.C. public housing resident sued the city’s housing authority and D.C. police earlier this month, saying that “disproportionate surveillance” at her complex is an invasion of privacy.

More than a third of D.C.’s child-care workers live in poverty. New city-funded bonuses are part of an innovative plan to raise their pay.

The transcripts of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III’s interviews were the part of the latest release of materials from the House Jan. 6 select committee

D.C.'s Office of Planning has changed course, requiring a new layer of review for a proposed residential redevelopment of the shuttered Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.

The Smithsonian Institution is now behind schedule in securing sites for its upcoming National Museum of the American Latino and American Women’s History Museum.

Police are investigating and environmentalists are crying foul after hundreds of tires were found dumped off D.C. Route 295 in a wooded section of Anacostia Park in Southeast.

The Washington Area Bicyclist Association is developing a new tool to track when students who are biking or walking in D.C. are nearly hit by cars.

In early November, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine stood before a bank of microphones and announced a new lawsuit against the Washington Commanders, team owner Dan Snyder, and the NFL. In it, he claimed the team had lied to D.C.…

On Jan. 3, which begins the D.C. Council’s next two-year term of service, Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) will ask members to ratify his proposed reorganization of the council’s committee structure and his designation of committee chairs.