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Seventeen D.C. statehood advocates were arrested near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon, protesting a Senate vote to block an overhaul of the District’s century-old criminal code.

Congress on Wednesday voted to overturn local D.C. legislation for the first time in more than 30 years, as a number of Senate Democrats joined Republicans in blocking a major overhaul of the city’s…

The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to block a D.C. bill that overhauls the city’s century-old criminal code, sending the first congressional disapproval of a local bill in three decades to President…

The former interim director of D.C.’s Office of Unified Communications, the agency that oversees the city’s 911 calls, filed suit against D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser this month for alleged retaliation…

President Joe Biden’s support of a Republican resolution to block new District of Columbia crime laws has split members of his own party amid rising concerns about crime in the nation’s capital and…

The U.S. Senate will debate and vote on a measure on Wednesday afternoon that would block the D.C. bill overhauling the city’s criminal code. The disapproval resolution — which was already passed by…

D.C. statehood advocates plan to rally on Wednesday in opposition to a vote by the Senate on whether to reject D.C.’s criminal code revamp, even as more Democratic senators said they planned to join…

A bill that would loosen restrictions on street vending has taken a major step forward in the D.C. Council Tuesday, as it was voted to advance.

The U.S. Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on whether it will formally strike down a controversial overhaul of D.C’s criminal code.

The Council also unanimously approved a bill to designate a portion of Good Hope Road SE as Marion Barry Avenue

A former Union Kitchen employee and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 400, the labor organization that represents current employees, has filed a wage theft lawsuit against the food…

Over two days of emotional testimony from residents, community organizers, and gun violence prevention activists this month, one theme came up again and again: “the system is broken.”

The D.C. Council bowed to bipartisan pressure on Monday by attempting to withdraw sweeping changes to the city's criminal code that the Senate appears on track to block later this week.

The embattled agency is recovering from internal and external audits that identified failures throughout the agency and millions in misspent funds.

The D.C. Council is withdrawing a sweeping rewrite of the capital city’s criminal code from consideration, just before a U.S. Senate vote that seemed set to overturn the measure. But the move will…

For decades, D.C.'s Ward 8 leaders say, the outside community has often laid out an economic and development agenda for them. Now they want that to change.

The Senate this week plans to vote on whether to block D.C.’s overhaul of its century-old criminal code from becoming law, even as city leaders tried to pull the legislation before federal lawmakers…

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson said Monday he is withdrawing a bill overhauling the city’s criminal code ahead of a planned vote in the U.S. Senate this week to block it from taking effect. But…

Democratic presidents in the past have done troubling and at times truly terrible things to appease centrist White voters and win elections. President Biden shouldn’t continue that legacy — and I am…

President Biden's shock announcement on Thursday that he won't veto a GOP-led resolution blocking changes to D.C.'s criminal code has left House Democrats in a state of shock, anger and distrust.