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After months of legal challenges and behind-the-scenes lobbying, D.C. residents in November will again vote on a controversial ballot initiative that would dramatically change how tipped workers in…

The Office of the D.C. Auditor says efforts to fix longstanding problems in the Office of Unified Communications, which operates the 911 call center, have produced only “minimal progress.”

The family of a 9-year-old student who suffered deadly injuries outside a D.C. public charter school last year is suing the school and its security company.

Nine-year-old Kaidyn Green was hit by a driver last December outside KIPP DC school. He died this June after complications from the crash, which left him in a wheelchair, and now his family has filed…

Kaidyn Green was struck by a driver in front of KIPP DC Honor Academy in December 2021 and later died. His mother says the school let him wander unsupervised before the crash.

The report from D.C. Auditor Kathleen Patterson comes as the Office of Unified Communications is under scrutiny for apparent mishaps

District Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has repeatedly declared Washington a “sanctuary city,” driving home the point, in 2018, by denouncing the Trump administration’s policies, celebrating the city’s…

On the heels of last week’s column on the rise of youth carjackings in D.C. came a Labor Day news conference by Prince George’s County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks (D), who drew a sharp focus on…

Eleven months after an initial audit, The D.C. Auditor’s office says little progress has been made on most of the recommendations made to improve the city’s emergency call system, which has received…

Since April 2020, the National Park Service’s (NPS) decision to close Rock Creek Park’s Beach Drive to vehicular traffic has sparked debate. On July 11, NPS announced its recommendation to open the…

Gratitude might not be the reaction Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) was expecting when he began sending frequent busloads of migrants and asylum seekers to the greater D.C. area. But gratitude, warmth and…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) declared a public emergency Thursday over the influx of asylum seekers bused in from Texas and Arizona, a formality that allows her to release $10 million in city…

Standard protocol when meeting Queen Elizabeth II held that you’re only to touch her should she offer her hand; under no circumstances should you hug her. But on a warm spring day in 1991, D.C.…

Candidates running for local D.C. offices discussed strategies for violent crime prevention at a forum in Southeast Washington this week, grappling once again with a topic that District voters say is…

It’s a shrimp-like crustacean found only in the city, and there’s a new plan to try to save it

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday downplayed reporting by The Washington Post that the Metropolitan Police Department has quietly resumed enforcement of its curfew for D.C. youth in an effort to…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a public emergency Thursday in response to thousands of migrants from the southern border being sent to the city on buses from Texas and Arizona.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday declared a public emergency regarding the influx of migrants from Arizona and Texas.

One D.C. school navigates the maze of federal covid education funding to target students on the verge of failure

Figures show just under 1 in 10 overdose victims died after using heroin this year, compared to more than half of them in 2017