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The outgoing owner of the Washington Marriott Wardman Park hotel says Marriott Hotel Services “grossly mismanaged” the shuttered Northwest D.C. property starting before the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new a lawsuit.

"With the mask mandate and overall concern of what could come next, we don’t feel like hashtag D.C. is open.”

University accused of misgendering student

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday slammed conservative media reports that she went maskless indoors last weekend in defiance of her own mandate.

Fans of Velvet Lounge and Dodge City are mourning the pandemic loss of those D.C.-area hangs.

The Council will spend $5 million to hire 60 more cops by next year.

After an extensive monthlong renovation, power lunch and dinner restaurant The Bombay Club reopened this week.

At first glance, 3025 Buena Vista Terrace in Ward 8 might not seem like much. It’s a rectangular plot of land, filled in the summer with an overgrowth of grass and vines, and in the winter with cobwebs of branches. Driving up 30th Street…

Thousands of the city’s littlest learners were missing from schools last fall. As they now begin to return to classrooms, all at varying academic levels, how will educators handle the fallout from the pandemic’s K-shaped recession?

The DC Council put the emphasis on legislators supporting "a combination of strategies to reduce violent crime," via a last-minute budget infusion. The mayor's chief of staff offered an alternative headline: "Council cuts proposal for new…

A request from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s for money to hire new police officers over the next year faces a critical vote in the D.C. Council Tuesday, where a pair of lawmakers have already hatched an alternate plan that would give the…

On July 16, workers in the District’s 911 call center received an email announcing changes were coming. Problems staffing the center meant there would be mandatory overtime, even on scheduled days off, and any additional leave would be…

The promotion, available through December, is one more incentive that the region’s leaders are using to get residents back.

The DC Circulator will remain free through at least the end of September, per an emergency order issued by the District’s government on Monday.

Metro said that it is prepared to ramp up coronavirus testing of its workforce if their vaccination rates do not reach more than 70%.

D.C. officials and tenant advocates Monday urged eligible tenants to apply for the city’s rent relief program, before the District’s eviction moratorium expires later this year.