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Was the Saturday night release, without public notice, of a summary of the investigation by Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s Office of Legal Counsel into allegations of sexual harassment against former top Bowser adviser John Falcicchio a cynical…

It’s often said that people are more likely to change their behavior when they know they’re being watched. Now D.C. wants to see if that’s actually true with dangerous drivers.

In the next few weeks, the NFL is expected to approve Josh Harris’s purchase of the Washington Commanders, which will rev up a competition for a new stadium between D.C., Maryland and Virginia. And while D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has…

As Mayor Muriel Bowser and some other local officials have garnered occasional headlines about their interest in hosting a new Washington Commanders stadium, WaPo is reporting that tensions have emerged over two of DC's existing sports…

Board members said there is little Metro can do to close a projected $750 million funding gap without jeopardizing the transit system, but they said they need to do as much as they can -- even raise fares

The bill contains some long-standing bans around legal marijuana sales in addition to a new proposal that restricts traffic cameras

The D.C. State Board of Education voted unanimously in favor of new social studies standards Wednesday evening that will transform how the subject is taught in the city’s public and charter schools.

The D.C. Council will consider a new bill aimed at stiffening penalties for certain domestic and sexual violence cases.

SmileDirectClub will be required to release 17,000 customers across the U.S. from its nondisclosure agreements, which prohibited them from posting negative reviews of the company’s orthodontics products, as part of a settlement with the…

A draft resolution would have paid Brenda Donald three months’ salary—nearly $69,000—as an interim director prepares to take over.

The cost of sending a toddler to a child care center in D.C. is nearly $24,400 on average annually, per a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

DC officials celebrated a key milestone in the construction of the new Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center facility on the St. Elizabeths East campus by signing the final steel beam in the hospital's frame.

The standards highlight the experiences of people of color and include lessons on media literacy

A late-night email to the media on a holiday weekend often contains bad news. The one sent by the D.C. government at 11:25 p.m. last Saturday was no exception. It announced the release of a “summary report” that concluded the mayor’s top…

While Bowser waits for the results of a second investigation, her lawyer admonished a reporter for asking what the mayor knew of Falcicchio’s behavior, and when.

In her first public appearance since her legal office substantiated allegations of sexual harassment against her former top adviser, John Falcicchio, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) defended the office’s investigative process — pushing…

D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital has received a $96 million donation from an anonymous donor family. The hospital will use it to advance brain tumor research in children.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser broke her silence Wednesday on the sexual harassment accusations that felled her deputy mayor and political confidante John Falcicchio, calling his actions towards a subordinate “wrong.”

A draft federal spending bill unveiled by House Republicans on Wednesday would impose a broad slate of new and old policy restrictions on D.C., from maintaining the eight-year-old ban on legalizing marijuana sales to prohibiting the city…