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With 162 homicides so far in 2023 and a particularly violent start to August, the District has already matched or exceeded the full-year tallies recorded between 2009 and 2018.

The DC Office of the Inspector General late last week released its formal request seeking an outside firm to review the two internal investigations that upheld sexual harassment complaints by two employees against John Falcicchio, former…

DC's federal courthouse on Constitution Avenue is taking center stage with this afternoon's scheduled arraignment of former President Donald Trump, prompting a national and international media frenzy as he faces charges of conspiring to…

The Mayor's Office of Legal Counsel has substantiated allegations from a second employee of sexual harassment by John Falcicchio, former deputy mayor of planning and economic development and chief of staff to Mayor Muriel Bowser.

Just days after the sale of the Washington Commanders, newly introduced bipartisan legislation in the House calls for a 99-year extension of the District's lease for the sprawling RFK Stadium site that would allow mixed-use development…

The DC Board of Elections ruled Friday that a proposed initiative on ranked choice voting and open primaries is suitable as a ballot measure, an initial step in enabling proponents to begin circulating petitions among registered voters to…

Mayor Muriel Bowser yesterday signed two emergency bills passed by the DC Council last week amid concerns over the rise in homicides and other violent crime so far this year.

A bipartisan coalition in the House of Representatives fell short in their attempt to force the addition of new flights at Reagan National Airport and the relaxation of the long-standing "perimeter rule" that limits long-distance flights. …

"I come to bury you, not praise you," advisory neighborhood commissioner Joe Bishop-Henchman said this morning of Dave Thomas Circle as DC officials kicked off a long-awaited project to remake the intersection.

DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb is suing more than 25 companies for manufacturing "forever chemicals" that he says are contaminating the District's waterways and other natural resources.

Mayor Muriel Bowser today named Pamela Smith to head the Metropolitan Police Department, choosing a candidate who joined the agency in May 2022 as its first chief equity officer after retiring from the U.S. Park Police.

GOP leaders in the House tout an array of DC-related provisions in the latest appropriations bill as supporting conservative values and priorities, but local officials are decrying them as a broad attack on the District's autonomy.

Weeks after a House subcommittee approved an appropriations bill with multiple policy riders restricting the DC government as well as cuts to requested federal spending for DC's courts, the full House Committee on Appropriations is marking…

The DC Council voted yesterday to approve a trio of public safety bills proposed by Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto as emergency legislation.

Amid signs of broad agreement among DC Council members on most elements of the public safety bill up for consideration at today's legislative meeting, Ward 4 Councilmember Janeese Lewis George is pushing to remove changes to rules…

The DC Council will take up emergency public safety legislation tomorrow as part of a lengthy agenda at the final legislative meeting before its summer recess.

As a result of revelations that the DC Department of Motor Vehicles didn't record some drunk driving convictions into its database that would have led to license suspension or revocation, the agency says it's reviewing 15 years' worth of…

The DC Department of Human Services won't be reopening applications for the Emergency Rental Assistance Program until the start of the new fiscal year in October — despite the receipt of $33 million in federal funding for rental assistance…

Mayor Muriel Bowser yesterday asked DC's inspector general to consider a review of three allegations deemed outside the scope of a recent investigation that sustained sexual harassment complaints about former deputy mayor and chief of…

The District will receive just over $100 million in federal funds to increase access to affordable, reliable high-speed internet, according to a White House announcement yesterday.

The DC government employee whose accusations of sexual harassment by a top mayoral adviser led to his abrupt departure provided extensive and explicit details about her allegations in an interview with The Washington Post.

As Mayor Muriel Bowser and some other local officials have garnered occasional headlines about their interest in hosting a new Washington Commanders stadium, WaPo is reporting that tensions have emerged over two of DC's existing sports…

DC officials celebrated a key milestone in the construction of the new Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center facility on the St. Elizabeths East campus by signing the final steel beam in the hospital's frame.

Mayor Muriel Bowser said today that she doesn't see a need for a new, independent investigation into the allegations of sexual harassment by former deputy mayor and chief of staff John Falcicchio sustained by the Mayor's Office of Legal…

A three-month investigation by the Mayor's Office of Legal Counsel has substantiated allegations that former deputy mayor and chief of staff John Falcicchio sexually harassed an employee in his office, making sexual advances and sending…

A new bill from Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto aims to increase transparency at the often-criticized Office of Unified Communications, the agency that operates the District's 911 and 311 call centers.

The Bowser administration is presenting two downtown events on Monday to commemorate Juneteenth 2023.