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DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb today announced that Pepco will pay over $57 million to resolve allegations that the utility company discharged toxic chemicals that contaminated the Anacostia River.

An improved short-term economic outlook has led the District's chief financial officer to increase revenue projections enough to trigger two funding provisions inserted by the DC Council into the FY 2024 budget law: $20 million for…

As part of Art All Night, a wide array of exhibits, performances, screenings and other activities for the next two evenings will celebrate the arts in DC.

A new expert analysis gives the Anacostia River a failing grade for the third time in six years, but also cites long-term progress that reflects slow but steady improvements in water quality and ecosystem health.

The District has now reported 209 homicides so far this year, a tragic milestone that marks the first time since 1997 that the city has surpassed 200 before October.

Present and former DC officials yesterday helped unveil Allen Y. Lew Place in honor of the "master builder" who oversaw the construction of the adjacent Walter E. Washington Convention Center as well as multiple other public works projects…

Mayor Muriel Bowser today launched DC's inaugural Arts Week, with an eye toward highlighting and supporting the District's creative communities.

In the wake of a Board of Elections decision this summer to give an initial OK for a potential ballot initiative to bring ranked choice voting and open primaries to the District, a new DC Council bill aims to prevent future initiatives…

A key House committee voted yesterday to advance bipartisan legislation that would extend the District's lease on the 174-acre RFK Stadium campus and add new flexibility on development there — without an amendment prohibiting public…

A debate over whether to ban use of government funds to help build any new Washington Commanders stadium on the RFK campus is at least briefly holding up a committee vote on bipartisan legislation to extend DC's lease on the sprawling…

Bipartisan efforts in Congress to extend the District's lease on the RFK Stadium campus and allow mixed-use development there — potentially including a new Washington Commanders stadium — are moving ahead.

Mayor Muriel Bowser cut the ribbon this morning on Whitman-Walker's new 118,000-square-foot health care and research facility on the St. Elizabeths East campus that will allow the organization to triple the number of patients it sees in…

The DC Housing Authority yesterday announced the selection of a new executive director after a nationwide search: Keith Pettigrew, a DC native who is currently CEO and president of the Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority.

Mayor Muriel Bowser cut the ribbon this morning on a new downtown headquarters for cybersecurity firm Virtru — the first company to receive incentives through the District's Vitality Fund, part of the Bowser administration's announced…

A new study from the Capital Area Food Bank says that 35% of DC residents didn't have enough to eat or know where their next meal was coming from at some point in the prior year.

Mayor Muriel Bowser and DC Council members visited a downtown fire station this morning for a 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony to honor the bravery of first responders who served that day and the memory of those who lost their lives to the…

This week's heat wave brought DC some record-breaking temperatures for early September, but it also helped fuel renewed complaints about DC Public Schools with faulty air-conditioning systems in some classrooms.

As police continue to search for a murder suspect who escaped yesterday from George Washington University Hospital, the Metropolitan Police Department's acting chief acknowledged that officers had not secured the man to a gurney when…

A citywide coalition of 97 advisory neighborhood commissioners is calling on Mayor Muriel Bowser and the DC Council to resolve "grave concerns" about the performance and dependability of the city's 911 call center operated by the Office of…

Amid forecasts of a record-setting heatwave this week, the DC Department of Parks and Recreation announced plans to keep two outdoor pools and 18 spray parks open past Labor Day.

Mayor Muriel Bowser has long called for the federal government to return more of its workers to the office, and a new regional push organized by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments is seeking to make the same case.

Mayor Muriel Bowser marked the start of the new school year this morning with a ribbon-cutting at Ward 4's Raymond Elementary, site of a $63 million modernization newly completed in time for the school's centennial.

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…