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A new DC Council bill being introduced by Ward 7's Vincent Gray aims to increase the number of Metropolitan Police Department officers by boosting retention.

In a salacious lawsuit, the developer claims city officials catered to insiders, leading to the dissolution of the project at Fifth and I streets NW.

If D.C.’s standard “End Taxation Without Representation” license plates don’t seem direct enough for your disenfranchised tastes, you will soon have a more pointed alternative to show off when you drive.

The public dispute between Metro and its safety oversight body has overflowed into public view so many times in recent months, that it has left elected officials on the D.C. Council with a big question: what is going on?!

The lower level of Malcolm X Park in Columbia Heights is now open to the public after almost three years of renovations.

D.C. Public Schools is requiring all staff and students to take a COVID-19 test and produce a negative result before returning to the classroom after school resumes on Feb. 27. DCPS has routinely required a negative result, in an attempt…

A dark, vaulted enormous space on the National Mall unseen by the public is now under construction with a plan to create an immersive visitor experience underneath the Lincoln Memorial.

The National Park Service is moving ahead with its plans to construct new museum exhibits underneath the Lincoln Memorial. The agency chose a contractor to do the work who will begin construction in March, NPS said Monday.

Seven years after it was announced, the multimillion-dollar Lincoln Memorial project is getting underway

On this Presidents Day, the National Park Service announced that a long-planned construction project at the Lincoln Memorial will kick off next month. Once it's completed in 2026, the new immersive museum will provide public access to the…

The backlash comes after D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) proposed an increase to the city’s per-student funding formula

The city isn’t only wasting millions every year by not checking market rents. It’s wasting millions on inadequate housing.

Dulles International Airport also showed growth in passenger traffic, but its numbers were still below pre-pandemic levels

The improved rapport allowed the D.C. Council and Metro officials to focus on a range of other topics

D.C.’s busiest aquatic center remained shuttered for emergency repairs Friday after inspectors discovered a number of problems with the facility earlier in the week and immediately closed it, city officials said.

A now-former D.C. Housing Authority police officer believes she was fired for reporting a locker room fight to MPD.

Former staffers offer an inside look at Marshall’s campaign, which generated plenty of headlines but didn’t gain much traction.

If you’ve ever seen people lugging buckets of food scraps to dump at D.C.’s compost drop-off sites, you know there is a pent-up desire among District residents to recycle their food waste. Last year, 128,000 people used the 10 drop-off…

A little over a year after it began, D.C. is ending its free COVID testing distribution at local libraries, according to DC Health.

A new discrimination suit against the HSEMA director echoes a previous complaint about his alleged treatment of older Black employees.