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Congressional Republicans are pressing ahead with a legislative effort to prevent D.C. from implementing a new criminal code that would lighten maximum sentences for burglary, carjacking and robbery.

It should have come as no surprise when the House voted last week in favor of resolutions disapproving two D.C.-enacted bills — one allowing noncitizens to vote in D.C. elections and a second revising the city’s criminal code. House…

The National Park Service on Wednesday cleared a large homeless encampment at McPherson Square, despite pushback and calls for a delay from some D.C. lawmakers and numerous homeless advocacy groups.

District leaders say they hope to find housing for the park’s residents, but they wouldn’t accept help from prominent nonprofits.

Divided internally, D.C. Democrats — from the mayor to activists to the business community — have no grand strategy to fight back against this new era of congressional meddling.

McPherson Square was largely clear of tents early this afternoon as the National Park Service completes the removal of a homeless encampment on the federal parkland that had grown in recent months as federal and local officials closed…

More than 70 people living in tents in McPherson Square will be moved Wednesday by the National Park Service, despite pushback from some D.C. lawmakers.

When Taí Alex showed up at Burroughs Elementary School in Brookland earlier this month to drop off her four-year-old daughter, she got some bad news: A gas leak had closed the school for the day. The same happened the day after.

The sergeant shot and killed Kevin Hargraves-Shird last year during a pursuit in the Brightwood Park neighborhood

St. Elizabeths Hospital and a group of patients have settled a lawsuit over the hospital’s mishandling of its October 2019 water crisis and inadequate safety procedures during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser suddenly dismissed the director of the city’s juvenile justice agency late last week for reasons that remain unclear.

DCPS hasn’t been sending a variety of contracts to the Council for review as required, including a school meals deal of interest to parents.

The Anacostia River tends to be better known for urban pollution than for wildlife. But in recent years, some species have been making a comeback around the river — an indicator of the Anacostia’s improving health. Recent photos from…

With the National Park Service slated to clear the McPherson Square homeless encampment tomorrow, the chair of the DC Council's Housing Committee and four other council members are urging the federal government to delay its plans.

People trying to stop the clearing of a homeless encampment in D.C. showed up at the U.S. Department of the Interior on Monday to protest.

On Monday, the ribbon was cut on The Ethel, a new a new building in Southeast D.C.’s East Hill neighborhood that will provide 100 units for D.C. residents who recently had no place to call home.

DCPS hasn’t been sending a variety of contracts to the Council for review as required, including a school meals deal of interest to parents.

District leaders Monday cut the ribbon on a new 100-unit apartment building that will offer permanent supportive living for the city’s homeless, two days before the National Park Service plans to clear a large tent encampment in McPherson…