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Congress’s decision to overturn the District’s criminal-code reform was hardly the lowest or most intrusive intervention in the city’s 50-year home rule history. This week’s rejection pales, in severity, to the historic 1995 move by…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia), the conservative firebrand who has downplayed the severity of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, is demanding that Mayor Muriel Bowser allow her and other Republicans to visit some two-dozen Jan.…

D.C. Housing Authority officials say they plan to comply with local and federal rules requiring the agency to ensure rents for low-income voucher holders are not paid at above-market rates, but they are not ready to detail how.

D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb is cracking down on murky restaurant service fees.

There's a new DC Council bill at risk of congressional disapproval initiated by House Republicans.

On top of taxes and preparing spring break plans, parents know it’s also the time of year to start signing their kids up for summer camp. And in D.C., high demand is prompting the city to change to a lottery system.

Move comes on heels of congressional rejection of new District criminal code

Residents in city’s suburbs in Maryland and Virginia say they feel safer than those living in the nation’s capital

Two Republican U.S. House members, Andrew Clyde of Georgia and Andrew Garbarino of New York, introduced a joint resolution Thursday that would block several police reforms passed by the D.C. Council last year.

A new GOP-led effort in Congress would overturn local police reforms in Washington, D.C., that were enacted after the police murder of George Floyd.

D.C. is moving to a lottery-based system for its summer camp sign-ups, ending a free-for-all that had left many kids without a spot.

The DC Department of Human Services (DHS) announced yesterday that the last day to submit new applications for the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) is tomorrow, Mar. 10, at 11:59 p.m., according to a press release.

The D.C. health insurance exchange suffered a serious data breach that could impact thousands of residents, including elected officials in the District.

The fact-free debate over D.C.’s criminal code revisions showed how little has changed around the politics of crime, despite 2020’s promises of progress.

If they want to ‘fix’ our city, let them. Call them up about your broken streetlights, your rats, those overgrown trees. After all, they’re here to help.

The Senate voted Wednesday night to block changes to D.C.’s criminal code, the first time in more than three decades that Congress approved overruling the city.

For more than a year, she ran D.C.’s 911 emergency dispatch center. Now in a suit against the mayor and the District, the former director claims she was fired for shining a light on problems plaguing the department.