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Roughly 170 animals — including dogs, cats, snakes and rabbits — are looking for new homes, as adoptions drop and returns rise

Washington-area roadways are famous for their ability to instill fear. Try negotiating the confusing noodle soup of I-395-695-295 on any given rush hour. Or the curve-a-thon section of the Capital Beltway just east of Interstate 270.

For the second year in a row, the District of Columbia has surpassed 200 homicides, something that hasn’t happened in 20 years. And as 2022 winds to a close, the head of the District’s police union says the D.C. Council is at fault.

A D.C. public housing resident sued the city’s housing authority and D.C. police earlier this month, saying that “disproportionate surveillance” at her complex is an invasion of privacy.

More than a third of D.C.’s child-care workers live in poverty. New city-funded bonuses are part of an innovative plan to raise their pay.

AG Karl Racine today announced settlements in two of his office's high-profile consumer cases — obtaining $9.5 million from Google, and $3.5 million from Grubhub.

The transcripts of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III’s interviews were the part of the latest release of materials from the House Jan. 6 select committee

D.C.'s Office of Planning has changed course, requiring a new layer of review for a proposed residential redevelopment of the shuttered Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.

The Smithsonian Institution is now behind schedule in securing sites for its upcoming National Museum of the American Latino and American Women’s History Museum.

Police are investigating and environmentalists are crying foul after hundreds of tires were found dumped off D.C. Route 295 in a wooded section of Anacostia Park in Southeast.

The Washington Area Bicyclist Association is developing a new tool to track when students who are biking or walking in D.C. are nearly hit by cars.

In early November, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine stood before a bank of microphones and announced a new lawsuit against the Washington Commanders, team owner Dan Snyder, and the NFL. In it, he claimed the team had lied to D.C.…

As 2022 comes to a close, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that the District's population has increased slightly after suffering losses early in the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Jan. 3, which begins the D.C. Council’s next two-year term of service, Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) will ask members to ratify his proposed reorganization of the council’s committee structure and his designation of committee chairs.

Settlement ends proceedings in lawsuit by D.C. attorney general that alleged congregation ignored city laws designed to keep children safe

Eligible D.C. residents studying for a degree in some “high-demand” career fields have until Jan. 6 to apply for up to $8,000 in annual tuition assistance.

The nonprofit Washington Housing Conservancy, whose mission is to preserve affordable housing options for D.C. area residents, has acquired a 212-unit apartment building in Northeast D.C.