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Earlier this month, prime time Fox News polemicist (and former D.C. resident) Tucker Carlson darkly told his audience of millions what he sees as an existential threat to the country.

Cherry blossom season is on the way, but while the pink blossoms only last a few weeks, the changing climate is impacting them year round.

Local and federal officials cut the ribbon this morning on a new DC Emergency Operations Center, which features more space for convening government decision-makers and private-sector partners when responding to large-scale emergencies.

Metro will reduce its late weeknight service on four lines over the next three weeks to complete some needed maintenance, the transit system said Friday.

About 200 LGBTQ advocates, allies and others lined the street outside Crazy Aunt Helen’s, a Capitol Hill restaurant, to protect the Drag Storytime event happening inside

Resolution from Sen. Bill Hagerty puts Hill Democrats, D.C. Council and Biden in tough position

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has petitioned Senate leaders to oppose a congressional effort to overturn a pair of D.C. bills as the city braces for Congress to potentially vote to undo local legislation for the first time in a generation.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is calling on the U.S. Senate not to vote for a resolution — already approved by the House — that would prevent the District from implementing a new criminal code that includes lighter mandatory penalties for some…

The transit agency said four lines will be affected for the three-week project, which will start Monday

A controversial overhaul of Washington’s criminal code needs to be fixed.

There is nothing new about reports of waste, inefficiency and poor living conditions in public housing and related federal low-income housing assistance programs. Hardly any housing authority in the country has been free of such issues.…

Presidents’ Day weekend was no holiday for D.C. crime — and certainly no timeout for juvenile offenders. A fuller accounting of how both are handled by the city’s juvenile justice system is overdue.

It’s been just under five months since the District’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs broke up into two smaller agencies — and reviews of the change, at least so far, are mixed.

The rent is already too damn high, and the Rental Housing Commission just OK’d a historic rent increase.

Metro riders might be able to move freely between rail cars when the new 8000 series trains are introduced into Metro’s fleet.

Mayor Muriel Bowser, Attorney General Brian Schwalb and all 13 members of the DC Council sent letters yesterday to Senate leaders opposing the pending resolutions of disapproval that would derail two recently enacted laws.

A new bill introduced by D.C. Councilmember Vincent Gray (D-Ward 7) seeks to beef up the ranks of the Metropolitan Police Department by offering retiring officers a bonus equal to a year’s pay to stay on the force for five more years. The…

Metro is exploring a drastic change to its upcoming new 8000-series trains: an open gangway. Open gangway trains have no doors between cars, allowing riders to freely move through parts of or the entire length of the train. It can improve…