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With a House vote expected this summer on the appropriations bill that includes the District of Columbia, multiple GOP lawmakers are pushing to add more riders to limit local spending and programs they deem objectionable.

Amid concern about rates of chronic absenteeism and truancy that worsened during the pandemic and have shown only modest improvement, the DC Council is poised to consider a pilot program to test whether the mayor's push to refer such cases…

With sweltering temperatures predicted to continue for at least the next several days, Mayor Muriel Bowser has activated an Extended Heat Emergency through Thursday at 10 p.m. "or until conditions improve."

Citing a recent increase in complaints to her office about DC's 911 call center, Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau is pushing for the Office of Unified Communications to take further steps to avoid dispatch failures and delays in…

Independence Day is one of the busiest days each year for Metrorail, and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is once again offering free rides on July 4 from 5 p.m. until the system closes at midnight.

Ahead of next week's 75th Anniversary 2024 NATO Summit in downtown DC, local and federal officials are warning of roadblocks, vehicular and pedestrian checkpoints, bus route adjustments and more as the result of security zones around key…

A House committee is scrutinizing Amtrak's efforts to use eminent domain to take control of Union Station's retail space as a means to improve railway operations in part by expanding passenger and customer areas.

A DC Council hearing yesterday aired continued questions about the depth and scope of the internal investigations that sustained allegations of sexual harassment by John Falcicchio when he was deputy mayor for planning and economic…

The Metropolitan Police Department drew high marks in key areas in a new assessment released today and conducted by the Policing Project at the New York University School of Law at the request of the Office of the DC Auditor.

The DC Council voted unanimously this afternoon to approve an amended version of the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Support Act circulated yesterday by DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson.

A new helicopter and the debut of a drone program will bolster the District's crime-fighting efforts via more "eyes in the sky," Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith proclaimed this morning.

British journalist Robert Winnett, the embattled pick for The Washington Post's new editor, won't be heading to DC after all.

It's a project that's been in the works for well over two decades with multiple groundbreaking ceremonies since 2014 to mark various milestones, but this morning's event kicked off what the development team and DC officials call the final…

Amid ongoing concerns that a vacancy crisis is impeding the work of the DC Superior Court, the U.S. Senate voted 52-42 this afternoon to confirm President Joe Biden's nomination of Katherine Oler as an associate judge — the third such…

Mayor Muriel Bowser celebrated the grand opening this morning of a new mixed-use development in the Southwest Waterfront neighborhood with 449 new housing units — a project that helps bring the District within what's likely to be a few…

The GOP-controlled House Appropriations Committee yesterday approved the bill that governs federal appropriations for the District of Columbia, attaching a range of policy riders — including the long-standing provision that prohibits local…

The DC Council voted unanimously yesterday to give final approval to a $21 billion fiscal year 2025 budget with just a few changes from the version proposed by Council Chair Phil Mendelson.