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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that “D.C. statehood is an idea whose time has come,” and several Democrats lined up on the floor of the upper chamber to argue for making the District the nation’s 51st state.

The pandemic’s racial disparity has widened in DC, where more than 80% of people newly infected with the coronavirus are Black residents.

Charles I. Cassell, an architect who helped shape the campus of the University of the District of Columbia and spent years rallying support for D.C. to become the country’s 51st state, died May 17 at a retirement facility in Washington. He…

Democratic senators used the chamber floor Tuesday afternoon to argue for statehood for the District of Columbia, giving advocates a boost even as the effort faces a lack of votes and an uncertain future.

On a warm Saturday evening, Minnie Elliott, 83, sat with children on folding chairs outside her Brookland Manor apartment in Northeast Washington. They were waiting to watch a documentary called “What Happened 2 Chocolate City.”

Black people make up more than 80 percent of coronavirus cases reported in the District in recent days, compared with 46 percent late last year, a disparity that D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) highlighted in a call with Ward 8 community…

An independent review backs a D.C. police finding that an officer’s fatal shooting of a young man in September was justified but says mistakes made by police before the deadly encounter unnecessarily put officers and the suspect in danger.…

Water has returned to the section of the C&O Canal that runs through Georgetown in D.C.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is suing Amazon, alleging the online retail juggernaut is violating city law by stifling competition and artificially raising prices for customers.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia has sued Amazon, accusing the online retail giant of anticompetitive practices in its treatment of sellers on its platform. The practices have raised prices for consumers and stifled innovation…

The organization behind D.C.’s botched effort to raise the tipped minimum wage plans to hold a “wage strike” outside the Old Ebbitt Grill Wednesday, citing challenges facing restaurant workers as the local hospitality industry begins to…

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is targeting Amazon.com Inc. with an antitrust lawsuit, alleging the tech giant has used a series of anticompetitive practices to dominate the online retail market in one of the first government-led…

In the summer of 2020, several councilmembers led an effort to defund the streetcar extension to the Benning Road Metro Station in Ward 7. In doing so, they made several statements on the record about the project and Ward 7.

A newly-proposed bill in DC aims to create affordable housing from an unlikely source: existing apartments.

An audit team identified flaws in MPD's internal investigation and urges Chief Robert Contee to release it.

The Rolling to Remember motorcycle rally being held Memorial Day weekend will cause significant road closures around D.C.

The White House asked four members of the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts, all advocates for classical design appointed by the former president, to leave the federal agency.

Having ousted four Trump-appointed members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, President Biden announced Tuesday that he will replace them with four people who bring “a diversity of background and experience, as well as a range of…

D.C. officials are warning that delays in the release of granular population data from the U.S. Census could create havoc for the city’s 2022 election cycle, potentially leaving some residents voting for officials who may not end up…

The suit alleges Amazon’s practices have led to higher prices for consumers.