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Walk-in service will resume next month at D.C.’s Department of Motor Vehicles.

After a year of limited service by appointment only, the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles will return to its regular practice of “first come, first served” next month.

A former D.C. restaurant worker is reviving an effort to raise the city’s tipped minimum wage.

Two months to the day after the House of Representatives passed the bill that would make D.C. the 51st state, the legislation moved into a Senate committee for the second time in history.

On Tuesday, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held its first hearing on DC statehood in seven years. The hearing considered the Washington D.C. Admission Act (S.51), a bill introduced earlier this year by…

Wealthier, whiter neighborhoods tend to have more trees, and that’s not just a D.C. phenomenon. Nationwide, wealthy areas have 65% more tree canopy compared to lower-income neighborhoods, according to a new “tree equity” project created by…

Older Black Washingtonians face a host of health challenges compared with their white peers — chronic disease, lower life expectancy, longer travel times to health providers, and worse outcomes when they get there.

The outdoor athletic fields around the National Mall in D.C. will reopen on July 8, the National Park Service announced Tuesday.

Supporters of legislation to make D.C. the nation’s 51st state testified on Tuesday at a rare U.S. Senate committee hearing on the issue.

Uber Eats will now highlight price differences from restaurants, DC’s AG says

WASHINGTON (AP) — Proponents of statehood for Washington, D.C., vowed Tuesday to keep pushing even though the prospects were dim as the bill began working its way through the Senate.

D.C. statehood proponents sought Tuesday to counter arguments that the idea is unconstitutional, urging a Senate committee to fulfill America’s founding principle of no taxation without representation in the nation’s capital.

Events D.C., the operator of the District’s convention center and several of its sports venues, has secured $5.25 million in federal relief funding through the Paycheck Protection Program to weather the pandemic’s effects and replenish its…

More than two years after D.C. lawmakers overturned a ballot initiative that would have required employers to pay a higher base salary to tipped workers, a local restaurant worker is reviving the effort.

A large majority of D.C. voters support raising taxes on big corporations and higher-income residents to help bankroll the city’s recovery and other goals.

A federal judge has dismissed multiple claims filed by protesters and civil liberties groups after law enforcement forcefully cleared demonstrators from Lafayette Square Park ahead of Donald Trump’s infamous photo-op at St. John’s…