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“Uhh, thank you so much Optimus Prime,” said the mildly bemused D.C. bureaucrat, responding to the iconic leader of the Autobots.

The D.C. Council held a six-hour public oversight hearing this week to decide the best way to address the District’s dangerous driving crisis.

DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton joined with 13 House members from Maryland and Virginia this week in opposing a recently introduced bill to increase air traffic at Reagan National Airport.

City leaders are seeking to reverse declining tax revenue from office properties downtown that have become increasingly vacant

Protests are planned at the Wharf today following Monday's abrupt closure of Moon Rabbit restaurant at the InterContinental hotel.

Mayor Muriel Bowser joined leaders of the DowntownDC and Golden Triangle business improvement districts this morning to launch development of the Downtown Action Plan, which will lay out strategies and programs to revitalize downtown amid…

With just a little over a month before the last day of school, the principal of one of D.C.’s larger middle schools is out of the job.

Activists say he isn’t going far enough as big rent hikes loom.

Moon Rabbit, the critically acclaimed modern Vietnamese restaurant from Chef Kevin Tien, will close its doors for good Tuesday. This comes in the midst of a unionization effort by the restaurant’s servers, bartenders, and other workers.

DC Council members Kenyan McDuffie and Janeese Lewis George are pushing the District's chief financial officer to get DC Public Schools teachers the retroactive pay they're owed under a recently ratified contract.

Two years after magazine owner Cathy Merrill enraged staff by calling for a return to the office, the company has reached a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board

Acclaimed chef Kevin Tien’s modern Vietnamese restaurant, Moon Rabbit, is closing on the Wharf at the end of service on Monday, a sudden and surprising move that local union officials say was engineered by the luxury hotel that houses the…

The DC Department of Public Works is kicking off its annual citywide graffiti cleaning tour, with crews set to remove graffiti, illegal posters and stickers from public surfaces.

A petition by the D.C. school’s parents that called for Errol Johnson’s removal accused him of poor communication, drops in academic performance and ‘widespread dysfunction’

Brazen shootings and carjackings are headline-grabbing offenses that spark calls for change in D.C.’s public-safety system. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) is right to push for a revitalized whole-of-government and legislative approach to crime…

Benedict has served as the department’s executive assistant police chief since April 2021

A Metropolitan Police Department lieutenant was indicted Friday for leaking confidential information to Enrique Tarrio, leader of right-wing extremist group The Proud Boys, as he faced an arrest warrant for burning a Black Lives Matter…

What was for years a hotly debated topic was hardly debated at all this week in the D.C. Council.

Ashan M. Benedict, executive assistant chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, will be the city’s new interim police chief, stepping into the role after Robert J. Contee III announced he was stepping down as chief last month. Mayor…