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The D.C. Council voted on Dec. 15 to give the Mayor authority to extend the end date for the pandemic-related state of emergency from Dec. 31 to March 31, 2021, which in turn would extend the city’s eviction moratorium. While this…

A block away from the historic Cotton Annex, itself in line for a residential retrofit, another old Southwest property is getting a residential redo.

With signs and chants, dozens of protestors demonstrated their disapproval of Prince William County’s hiring of D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham to lead the county force on Tuesday afternoon.

The D.C. government violated procurement laws when it awarded three of its largest contracts this summer — totaling $1.5 billion for three companies to manage health care for Medicaid recipients, a D.C. Contract Appeals Board judge ruled. …

John A. Donnelly Sr. is the new chief of D.C. Fire and EMS.

Commuting to her overnight shift as a part-time security guard has been an ordeal for 74-year-old Judith Howell, who says she “babysits an office building” in downtown Washington at a time when most of the city sleeps.

Legislation approved Tuesday by the D.C. Council sets the table for a new layer of accountability for the Metro Transit Police Department, which handles incidents on the transit system.

The D.C. Council has approved legislation that will create a civilian complaint board for the Metro Transit Police Department, once identical legislation is approved in Maryland and Virginia.

D.C. police said they fired pepper spray in a confrontation with activists outside a cellblock where a group gathered Monday evening to greet people being freed from detention after arrests during weekend demonstrations in downtown…

Happy Tuesday. Criminal justice reforms and pandemic responses once again proved a focal point for the council's legislative actions Tuesday as the sun set on the last legislative meeting of Council Period 23.

The lawsuit says the gym didn't abide to mask, social distancing, or sanitation guidelines.

In its final meeting of its two-year legislative term, the D.C. Council altered a rule on rehiring laid-off workers that has drawn criticism from the restaurant industry, but refused to step back from a bill that would grant early release…

Last month, UrbanTurf reported on the proposed first phase for one of the largest new developments on the boards for DC. Now, more details and images have emerged, and the community is offering its first reactions.

Attorney General Karl Racine announced Tuesday that D.C. gym chain Urban Athletic Club has agreed to follow the city’s emergency COVID-19 health and safety requirements. The announcement follows a lawsuit Racine’s office filed last week…

The D.C. Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to grant Mayor Muriel Bowser the authority to extend the city’s public health emergency to March 31.

Ben's Chili Bowl will open its eighth location in a new food court set to open at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

Do you hear what I hear? I hear the imperial American myth in the throes of its own death rattle. And I hear a people clamoring for a story by which to order their lives.

It’s quiet at the Takoma Park Aquatic Center in Northwest as Mark Bucher fills a sliding-glass-door refrigerator with individually packaged meals of steak salads and pasta bolognese.

Many employers in the hospitality industry will soon be required to send job offers to workers they laid off during the pandemic as their jobs become available again, under legislation that passed a final vote in the D.C. Council today.

As District leaders prepare to shell out tens of millions of dollars on the 59th presidential inauguration, they are sounding alarm bells over the federal government’s failure to repay them for the costs of President Trump’s inauguration…