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A new lawsuit claims that the Metropolitan Police Department has slowed its response to Freedom of Information Act requests from reporters, attorneys and community leaders deemed to have embarrassed or criticized the department.

The District is pledging to create 10 miles of protected bike lanes this year — the most to be built in a single year since the city began building its network of 24 existing miles.

The head of D.C.’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency acknowledged the agency is being investigated for how employees are treated.

It’s been a big week for name announcements in the District: The Washington Commanders (more on that later), Bezos Auditorium at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, and a new Bloomberg Trail.

A defense attorney says in a new lawsuit that the Metropolitan Police Department maintained a “watchlist” of lawyers, activists, and reporters whose requests for public records would be subjected to additional scrutiny, delayed, or…

On the latest episode of Former Metropolitan Police Department Employees Reveal Internal Corruption: A former MPD public records officer is a key witness in a lawsuit claiming the department instituted an unwritten policy to delay and…

A D.C. ambulance was delayed by 11 minutes responding to a dying shooting victim last week after a frantic caller to the D.C. 911 center repeatedly gave the wrong address to a dispatcher, who didn’t catch the mistake and use the technology…

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Wednesday the creation of nearly 800 units of affordable housing as part of the District’s historic investment in the production of homes for low-income residents.

The D.C. attorney general’s office filed suit against two landlords this week for allegedly allowing their properties to fall into dangerous disrepair. The lawsuits accuse one landlord of using harassment and poor living conditions to push…

Police and political leaders from the District and neighboring Prince George’s County are calling for healing, accountability and an overhaul of the criminal justice “ecosystem” in their communities as carjackings continue to spike two…

A D.C. bar that was feted by conservative media as it lost its liquor license for violating vaccine rules was closed by the city’s health department Tuesday for food code violations.

Prince George’s County, Maryland, and D.C. leaders are exasperated and worried for their residents’ safety as the number of carjackings, committed largely by teenagers, continues to escalate. Now they’re banding together to try and put a…

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed three D.C. judicial nominees after the city’s courts warned in December about the severity of its long-standing crisis of judicial vacancies.

D.C. mayoral candidate and At-Large Councilmember Robert White on Wednesday released a list of policy proposals aimed at preventing and reducing violence — the first and most comprehensive plan he’s put forward during his campaign.

Last August, a proposal was revived and remixed to bring a new hotel to the former site of Georgetown's Latham Hotel. Now, the concept has a new, arch-free architectural design.

Senator Rand Paul is among the right-wing politicians rallying around the Big Board on H Street

All is pretty quiet in terms of private development in DC's Adams Morgan neighborhood following the delivery of 172 apartments on its outskirts last summer.