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After failing lots of laid off workers during the pandemic, the department is making an $11 million investment.

Acting D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee has created a task force to tamp down on carjackings amid a rise in vehicle thefts in the District. He told reporters Tuesday that the task force will include…

The General Services Administration will pursue some renovations at the aging J. Edgar Hoover Building in downtown D.C. as an interim step as it remains unclear whether the Biden administration will…

A number of noteworthy developments in the Shaw area delivered last year (accounting for roughly 600 new residential units and a Whole Foods), and some of the larger projects still in the pipeline…

Within hours of taking the oath of office, President Biden signed an executive order to advance racial equity within the federal government, citing “the unbearable human costs of systemic racism” and…

The pandemic may still be raging, but the District’s tourism and events boosters will soon launch a new advertising campaign aimed at luring visitors back to D.C. over the coming months.

A former D.C. mayor said on Tuesday that the retail, leisure and hospitality industries will need creativity to recover from the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

New coronavirus variants are cropping up across the U.S. — including in the D.C. region.

After a popular cosmetology teacher died from complications related to COVID-19, the Washington Teachers’ Union filed a complaint against D.C. Public Schools on Tuesday, alleging the school system…

One of D.C.’s most consistent cash cows has been a lot less productive during the pandemic.

Over the past two years, D.C.’s go-go scene has grown from a hometown music genre into a key element of local social justice activism. Go-go bands have performed at some of the biggest rallies and…

A new bill aims to help victims of violent crime in D.C. both financially and emotionally.

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — A teacher at Ballou STAY Opportunity Academy has died of COVID-19, according to Washington Teachers’ Union president Elizabeth Davis.

D.C.’s delegate to Congress is taking action on her opposition to permanent fencing around the U.S. Capitol.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has been an outspoken critic of the Capitol Police’s fencing around the U.S. Capitol. Now she’s introducing legislation to make sure it doesn’t become permanent.

One corner of town saw an 8 percent swing toward Trump.

Attorneys argue that right to a speedy trial is a foundational element of justice system

A D.C. judge Monday dismissed a murder charge against an anti-violence counselor in the District who had been accused in a 2017 fatal shooting, concluding authorities did not have enough evidence…

The District is adding up to 200 staff members and new technology to help its overloaded unemployment system, part of an $11 million effort to aid residents who are out of work, D.C. Mayor Muriel E.…

The area of the Tidal Basin in D.C. that includes national memorials, monuments and iconic cherry trees sits on unstable ground that floods daily, and the infrastructure there is crumbling. But…