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Mayor Muriel Bowser is proposing a $19.5 billion budget that would increase the police force by more than 400 officers over nine years, fund school campus renovations, reduce homelessness, and expand recreation programs.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) proposed a $19 billion budget on Wednesday that included increasing funding for some of her top priorities, including boosting the police force’s budget by 5 percent and spending another half-billion dollars…

Mayor Muriel Bowser released her budget plans today with a presentation to the DC Council at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, although portions of the actual document won't be available to the public or the DC Council until…

Two of D.C.'s busiest corridors west of Rock Creek will be the focus of new planning efforts this year geared toward ramping up development — specifically affordable housing.

Amal Hligue has always covered her husband’s medical expenses. Unlike his job as a taxi driver, her employer — the Washington Hilton in Northwest D.C. — offers family health insurance.

In the backyard of his North Michigan Park home, Nathan Luecking, a self-described gentrifier, was explaining how he found common cause with D.C. native Charles Lockett, a longtime civic leader in the Northeast neighborhood.

Poet Reginald Dwayne Betts’s first-of-its kind Freedom Library now sits in the National Building Museum.

Leaders at four Washington-area campuses discussed opportunity gaps among boys of color and offered solutions

During his 45 years at Channel 9 in D.C., Bruce Johnson became one of the most respected and highest-paid TV news reporters in the country. By the time he retired in 2020, he’d won 22 Emmys, among other honors, and even had his likeness…

When Stormiyah Denson-Jackson took her life at a D.C. boarding school four years ago, there was no law barring a judge or jury from devaluing wrongful death lawsuits based on gender or race.

The Washington Commanders’ efforts to build a new stadium have hit more roadblocks over financing and concern about widespread sexual harassment allegations involving the organization.

A 30-year-old D.C. resident has been charged in the killing of a man experiencing homelessness on March 9, an incident that set off a frenzied 30-hour search across two cities after police connected it to a similar killing in New York last…

A man was arrested early Tuesday morning in D.C., after a search for the suspect who killed two homeless men and wounded three others in attacks in the nation's capital and New York City.

D.C.'s The Yards development is set to get a new corporate headquarters of a publicly traded company from New York in Xylem Inc. (NYSE: XYL).

After nearly a decade and a half at 14th and T streets in Northwest D.C., the Washington Improv Theater is on the hunt for a new home — though the reason why is up for dispute between the comedy nonprofit and its landlord.

The White House is resuming public tours next month, more than two years after the tradition came to a halt due to COVID-19, the Biden administration announced Tuesday.

A dump truck blocked their route from Interstate 295 toward I-695