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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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

Metro said that it is prepared to ramp up coronavirus testing of its workforce if their vaccination rates do not reach more than 70%.

D.C. officials and tenant advocates Monday urged eligible tenants to apply for the city’s rent relief program, before the District’s eviction moratorium expires later this year.

A D.C. police officer was found dead of an apparent suicide last week in his Virginia home, a spokeswoman said Monday.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser appears to have written a check that the D.C. Council won’t cash.

They had planned an October wedding, a culmination of a nine-year courtship that began in the school where they taught developmentally disabled children.

After Mayor Muriel E. Bowser proposed bolstering D.C.’s police force by rerouting $11 million to new officers in the city’s budget, two members of the D.C. Council on Monday countered with their own…

Metro’s top executive on Monday warned employees that the transit system might start mandatory coronavirus testing if the agency’s vaccination rate doesn’t climb to at least 70 percent.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser submitted her revised District budgets Monday, asking for additional funding to add 170 officers to the police department.

Two years ago, 13-year-old Jahani Hester lost one of his best friends, Karon Brown, after the 11-year-old was shot and killed while trying to flee a neighborhood conflict. He’s still working to heal…

Vernice Puryear, who lives in Ward 7, is supportive of the COVID-19 vaccine. But she says she understands why some other Black D.C. residents, particularly those living in wards 7 and 8, are…

At least seven D.C.-area universities have grappled, some more successfully than others, with a series of lawsuits filed by students and their families seeking partial refunds for tuition and…

Advocates continue to push for more funding for excluded workers ahead of tomorrow’s final budget vote.