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Rep. James Comer, chairman of the powerful congressional committee that oversees D.C., is preparing to introduce legislation that could ultimately allow the District to build a Washington Commanders football stadium or another mixed-use…

D.C. Council member Brianne Nadeau introduced emergency legislation Thursday to further review sexual harassment allegations made against Mayor Muriel Bowser’s former chief of staff and deputy mayor for planning and economic development.

More than seven years after Mayor Muriel Bowser first pitched a plan to build family homeless shelters in every ward across D.C., Ward 2 is finally set to receive its own iteration.

Bread for the City, a D.C. nonprofit that provides food, medical, and social services to low-income residents, has filed a lawsuit against the city for sending armed D.C. police officers as “default” first responders to the scene of mental…

The American Civil Liberties Union of D.C. filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the District of Columbia on behalf of a local nonprofit that has asserted the city’s system of sending police officers as the “default first responders”…

Last fall, a majority of then-newly elected ANC 3C advisory neighborhood commissioners posed for an infamous picture giving the finger to a Cleveland Park business’ storefront window poster that opposed the planned Connecticut Avenue bike…

Drivers getting or renewing their license in the District will soon see a “uniquely D.C.” design that the Department of Motor Vehicles said will help protect from identity theft.

D.C. has shifted trash and recycling pickup to 6am this summer in anticipation of hot days and poor air quality.

We now know what happened to the people who were forced out of a park near the White House, and it’s concerning

The Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, a new addition to the D.C. skyline will soon adorn the District’s driver’s license and ID cards. D.C.’s official bird, the wood thrush, joins cherry blossoms, which were on the last generation of the…

The continuous enrollment provisions implemented during the pandemic wound down as of April.

Thousands across the D.C.area have lost Medicaid coverage in recent months, as pandemic protections that allowed people to stay enrolled without reapplying came to a close. Known as “Medicaid unwinding,” states are resuming annual Medicaid…

About 72,000 D.C. residents stood to benefit from President Biden's loan forgiveness plan before it was struck down by the Supreme Court last week.

Education officials in D.C. say they don’t expect hunger to have any days off this summer — students will have access to free meals at over 100 sites while school is out.

The July 8 event is both a tribute to progress cleaning up the river, and a signal that work still needs to be done

D.C. Water has released a new plan to replace lead pipelines by 2030, including an increase in the cost for the plan to $1.5 billion.

D.C. goes big on the Fourth of July, but it's all about hometown Washington at the 57th-annual Palisades Parade and festivities.

Administration of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) increased the HPAP’s maximum allotment significantly last year — but funds are now unavailable until October

“It’s not safe in D.C.,” said veteran D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8) during a WJLA-TV interview last week. “So, we’re going to ask people to keep their kids in until we create these safe environments.”

As a result of revelations that the DC Department of Motor Vehicles didn't record some drunk driving convictions into its database that would have led to license suspension or revocation, the agency says it's reviewing 15 years' worth of…