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Local and federal agencies, along with business groups, have agreed to push a new vision for the nation’s Main Street.

An internal investigation has found that a former top adviser to Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) made unwelcome sexual advances on five separate occasions toward a D.C. government employee, according to a report the Bowser administration…

The Mayor's Office of Legal Counsel has substantiated allegations from a second employee of sexual harassment by John Falcicchio, former deputy mayor of planning and economic development and chief of staff to Mayor Muriel Bowser.

School leaders blame new city council education funding plan for preventing the system from buying new laptops

On a folded, white poster board, Kenithia Alston had glued childhood photos of her son, Marqueese, along with the program from his funeral in 2018.

The D.C. Office of Unified Communications said that a 911 call to report a car that had driven into the Anacostia River was “coded properly,” despite D.C. emergency services not finding the drowned car until more than an hour after the…

There is news that a Republican Congressman has bipartisan support for a bill that would extend the lease for the land in and around RFK Stadium to be used by the District. For many Washington sports fans — snap the fingers — that means…

A new report reveals there may be two downtown D.C.s: one that has successfully overcome the impacts of the pandemic and another still struggling to get by.

As the mayor arrived at Nationals Park for a news conference in the hot stickiness of Thursday morning, a Nationals official took the lectern and started things off with a story.

“This is not Mayberry,” D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said about accounts of thieves running up to valet stands at two downtown restaurants and stealing car fobs and keys.

D.C. organizers, advocates, and elected officials coalesced to tell Congress to keep their Hands Off D.C. and the Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022.

How a unanimously passed piece of D.C. Council legislation sparked a national debate about policing and statehood

Over the years, Carl Sferrazza Anthony has doggedly collected the signatures of eight presidents and eight first ladies on a rare engraving

One year on the job, Randy Clarke has brought Metro back from a train shortage and addressed fare evasion, but the agency still must solve a growing budget gap

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser encouraged residents to take care of each other as she declared a hot weather emergency effective through Sunday

Installation of new fareboxes is ongoing as the transit agency aims to speed up the boarding process and improve bus operations

More than two years after D.C.’s public health emergency ended, the city’s downtown is still struggling to attract a daytime crowd, a new report from the area’s Business Improvement District shows.

U.S. Rep. James Comer, the Republican chairman of the committee that oversees the District, introduced a bipartisan bill Thursday that could be the first step to bringing the Commanders back to the District.

There is new hope for Washington Commanders fans who want the team to move out of Maryland and build a new stadium in D.C., after a bill was introduced in Congress on Thursday related to the RFK Stadium site.