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District leaders have released a 2018 cybersecurity report they previously had been withholding from the public.

Happy Thursday. The next big ballot initiative in DC could reduce local enforcement of laws against 'magic mushrooms' and psychedelic drugs, if supporters can gather more than 25,000 signatures in time for November.

Consumer advocates want to reform debt collection law. But a bill that makes sure cases are legitimate is stagnant.

Biking in D.C. has created a lot of anger and fear, but also joy. I want to draw that. In words and pictures, I’ll show you the bike lanes, the bollards, and the pneumatic road tubes, but I’ll also bring you to the places where D.C.…

"Now we’re saying ‘put up or shut up’ and we’re giving the Council and mayor a chance to fulfill their promises.”

President Donald Trump’s administration is taking aim on modernist architecture, specifically its use in federal buildings in the District and beyond.

Avec on H Street will hang art that’s all made by local artists.

Advisory neighborhood commissioners are mandated by D.C. home rule charter to respond to neighborhood concerns and serve as a political representative but Salim Adofo, as a commissioner, has gone beyond doing that and has drawn compliments…

The nation’s capital is in a better financial position than it has been in years, according to the latest report from D.C.’s chief financial officer.

Mike Adams slept Wednesday morning on a bench in Franklin Square. When he awoke, he headed to a nearby church for a shower.

Brian Carome is one of the many people who knew and admired Alice Carter, the 35-year-old D.C. transgender woman who was homeless for most of the last 12 years of her life.

After months of meetings and discussion, the Historic Preservation Review Board unanimously voted Thursday to approve a section of the Barry Farm Dwellings in Southeast D.C. as a historic landmark.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Wednesday that the District reached an agreement with plaintiffs of a class action lawsuit that, if approved by D.C. Superior Court, will end court oversight of the city’s Department of Youth…

District residents could decide later this year whether the city should decriminalize certain psychedelic plants and fungi, including those known as “magic mushrooms.”

An effort to reduce police enforcement of laws against magic mushrooms and psychedelic plants in D.C. cleared a procedural hurdle on Wednesday, when the D.C. Board of Elections said the issue can legally be voted on by residents later this…

These are times of great division in the District of Columbia. And no, I’m not talking about Nancy Pelosi.