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While Washingtonians want President Biden to push for statehood, they also want his administration to help the city by providing economic security for low-income and working-class residents, creating…

The chairman of the union representing the U.S. Capitol Police lambasted the agency’s leadership Wednesday after the acting chief’s testimony on Capitol Hill about its response to this month’s attack…

Since moving into and later purchasing the three small buildings in Anacostia that it uses as its headquarters and shares with others, the LGBTQ youth-run company and community services center Check…

The D.C. Department of Human Services’s fourth annual A Home for the Holidays campaign helped 218 families and 117 singles in the shelter system sign leases for permanent housing between Nov. 15 and…

Immediate relief could be on the way for about 500 D.C. tenants who have had eviction cases brought against them since the COVID-19 pandemic started, due to an appeal by D.C. Attorney General Karl…

In its report, “20 Years of Hate,” published in December, the National Coalition for the Homeless analyzed the conditions around bias-motivated crimes against people experiencing homelessness. The…

The physical toll on officers who defended the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack by a pro-Trump mob is becoming clearer, with reports by police officials and federal prosecutors indicating that…

The words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that for more than six months have looked out over protests, celebrations and gaggles of tourists in Black Lives Matter Plaza were taken apart Wednesday,…

In the corner of a D.C. home sit four stacks of handwritten cards.

The statistics make clear that Washington, D.C. experienced four-straight years of a decrease in murder, from 144 in 2008, to 88 in 2012. There were many reasons for this steady decline, including…

Wireless service is now accessible throughout all of Metrorail after the transit agency added nearly 400 miles of cable and infrastructure along its tracks to connect to major carriers.

Another company is hoping to bring mopeds to D.C. in the coming months.

DC may soon have another tool available to incentivize grocery stores to open in Wards 7 and 8.

Don’t start drinking a beer in the middle of a D.C. street just yet, but city officials are trying to loosen liquor laws, including some around public drinking, to help restaurants and bars recover…

Washington — Democratic Senator Tom Carper of Delaware, joined by a group of more than three dozen fellow Democrats, has introduced a bill to make Washington, D.C., the 51st state, continuing the…

Any time the D.C. Council wants to pass a bill into law, it’s required to get an independent assessment of how much the bill would cost and whether the city has the money to pay for it. But now,…

A new generation of savvy activists. A new political calculus among leading Democrats. Maybe, just maybe, it could actually happen.

The most important liberal advocacy organizations—and a broader swath of the public—are pushing to make the District of Columbia the fifty-first state.

Greater Washington colleges and universities are slated to receive about $273 million from the stimulus package approved in December, significantly more than in the earlier Covid relief package…

The District and other local governments in the Washington region tweaked their plans Wednesday to vaccinate seniors, people with high-risk conditions, teachers and other essential workers as…