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Pepco will pay more than $57 million to the District after the electric utility discharged toxic chemicals in the city for decades, polluting the Anacostia River and other areas.

For decades, Pepco knowingly discharged toxic chemicals into the Anacostia River, using the river and other District waterways as a “cost-free dumping ground,” according to lawsuits filed by D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb.

Unionized building workers, including many immigrant office cleaners, marched through downtown D.C. streets during the Monday evening rush to draw attention to labor negotiations and their demand for higher wages.

A source says the AG is targeting RealPage, a company facing class action lawsuits and federal scrutiny for alleged anticompetitive actions.

DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb today announced that Pepco will pay over $57 million to resolve allegations that the utility company discharged toxic chemicals that contaminated the Anacostia River.

An improved short-term economic outlook has led the District's chief financial officer to increase revenue projections enough to trigger two funding provisions inserted by the DC Council into the FY 2024 budget law: $20 million for…

Roughly 300 D.C. employees have lodged complaints of sexual harassment in city government since Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s anti-sexual harassment order took effect in 2017.

Daniel Thompson smiles and his eyes widen as he imagines the return of his city’s football team to the soil on which it once played — and where he says it still belongs — down the street from his Northeast Washington rowhouse.

City officials say they are trying to balance many imperatives, including student populations, equitable resources and proximity for families

Five D.C.-area wedding planners said they sent urgent emails to clients with imminent weddings, telling them to get their marriage license by Friday

About 800,000 Washington-area passengers ride Metro buses and trains on weekdays, and it’s a good bet many would be unhappy to learn their transit system faces a “death spiral” starting next summer. Yet those dire words appear not in a…

Parents of children attending Stanton Elementary School on Naylor Road SE received a letter Monday from principal Allen Richardson that said: “This afternoon at approximately 1:35 p.m., school administration was alerted to gunshots near…

The owners and manager of subsidized apartment complexes in Ward 8 will pay $2 million in penalties and restitution, including rent credits, for breaking D.C. law and endangering hundreds of tenants.

The regional transit agency is facing a $750 million deficit. Leaders know it needs a dedicated source of funding, which almost certainly requires some politically unpopular choices.

Several men were locked in their cells as the unit filled with smoke.

No cash, no more — D.C. will enforce a law starting Sunday that bans businesses from refusing cash payments.

At the District’s government-sponsored sportsbook, apparently the house doesn’t always win.

As part of Art All Night, a wide array of exhibits, performances, screenings and other activities for the next two evenings will celebrate the arts in DC.

A new expert analysis gives the Anacostia River a failing grade for the third time in six years, but also cites long-term progress that reflects slow but steady improvements in water quality and ecosystem health.

More than 400 residents at two apartment complexes lived in unsafe and health-threatening conditions for several years, the D.C. attorney general said