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Four out of five D.C. teachers are unhappy with their jobs and nearly half plan to leave their roles in the next few years, according to a survey the Washington Teachers’ Union conducted in September.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Police Chief Robert Contee are raising specific but strenuous objections to portions of a long-planned overhaul of the city’s 100-year-old criminal code, saying that certain provisions could clog up the courts…

Four out of five D.C. teachers are unhappy with their jobs, according to a Washington Teachers’ Union survey of its members.

It could soon cost more to stay overnight in D.C. hotels, with the extra funds going toward increased marketing efforts to promote the District as a tourist destination.

When D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) asked Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) for legislation wresting control of the District’s parole system from the federal government — naming it critical on “our path to statehood” — she estimated the city…

With three competitive races on the ballot this fall, candidates are staking out some familiar, albeit irrelevant, battle lines.

The D.C. Board of Election sent the wrong ballots to 574 voters, and says it is contacting the impacted voters and will issue them new ballots.

For the second time in roughly four years, D.C. voters will determine how tipped workers get paid, this time through the Initiative 82 ballot measure.

As the DC Council convenes a hearing this afternoon to discuss teacher and principal retention and turnover in the District, a new survey by the Washington Teachers' Union identifies high levels of dissatisfaction among educators.

Here's how the ballot measure could transform the DC restaurant scene

Officials in Virginia, Maryland and D.C. decried a pandemic-fueled drop in students’ performance on major national assessments Monday, with some promising to devote money and time to fund tutoring programs that will help children catch up…

The D.C. Board of Elections says 574 voters were sent mail-in ballots that have the wrong Advisory Neighborhood Commission races.

The D.C. Council will consider a bill that would allow more competition in the District’s sports betting arena.

With a week until Halloween, trees in the D.C. area are turning all kinds of magnificent colors — but we all know what happens next.

The D.C. Board of Elections mailed incorrect ballots to 574 voters, due to mistakes matching residents to their new electoral districts after the city completed its decennial redistricting process several months ago.

A new bill in the D.C. Council would open up the city to multiple mobile sports betting apps, effectively undoing the virtual monopoly currently held by the D.C. Lottery and its widely criticized GambetDC app.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development issued a damning indictment of the DC Housing Authority (DCHA) this month, confirming what my office, the D.C. auditor and residents have been saying for years: DCHA is failing tenants. …

No District official ever wants the federal government poking around in D.C.’s back yard. Sometimes, however, as in the case of the D.C. Housing Authority, a public record and a culture of failure becomes so glaring that the feds are…

What’s known as “the nation’s report card” is in, and it’s not good news for students in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, who had some of the biggest declines in scores in the nation.

A new bill would open up D.C.'s much-criticized mobile sports betting program to big-name apps like FanDuel and DraftKings.