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The emergency COVID legislation that the DC Council passed in April required mortgage lenders to offer deferrals to property owners, and for those property owners to be transparent and pass that same relief on to their renters. Now, new…

It's a step in the right direction, but don't expect you'll get a voting member of Congress anytime soon.

The long-promised redevelopment of the Park Morton public housing complex is now facing further delays.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-controlled House approved a bill Friday to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, saying Congress has both the moral obligation and constitutional authority to ensure that the city’s 700,000…

The U.S. House on Friday approved legislation to make D.C. the 51st state in the United States.

For the first time since the establishment of the District of Columbia 230 years ago, the House of Representatives voted to declare the city as the nation’s 51st state, a legislative milestone that supporters say begins to right historic…

Protesters can visit the theater lobbies to use restrooms, charge their phones, and pick up a snack.

The District’s effort to redevelop Bruce Monroe Park in Park View just suffered a major legal setback, further complicating the city’s plans to provide new homes for residents of the obsolete Park Morton public housing complex nearby.

Contrary to popular belief, having a robust logging industry is not a criteria for statehood

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass a bill approving D.C. statehood on Friday, the first time a chamber of Congress has ever passed such legislation.

After months of back and forth with the D.C. Department of Employment Services, a D.C. resident is suing the city, alleging it owes her at least five weeks of unpaid unemployment benefits. The lawsuit casts a light on the struggle many…

In coming days, more Washingtonians will be chatting over a meal inside restaurants, huffing through a workout in a neighborhood gym or settling into a barber’s chair for an overdue haircut.

The education committee just passed a proposal to move the security guard contract from the police department to DC Public Schools. But advocates argue it's “nowhere near enough.”

Paid family and medical leave has crossed its final hurdle in the District.

A D.C. fireworks wholesaler is suing Mayor Muriel Bowser and Vincent Parker, an administrator with the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, over claims that he was wrongfully denied a business license for the first time since he…

It’s always been racist, partisan, and nonsensical.

You can live in Washington, D.C. amid the nation’s cherished monuments to democracy and representative government — the U.S. Capitol, the stately congressional office buildings, the White House — and still be among the most disenfranchised…