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Sen. Tom Carper (D-Delaware) on Tuesday introduced a bill that would make D.C. the 51st state, following a similar measure introduced in the House of Representatives by D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton.

A new bill in the D.C. Council would legalize and regulate the sales of recreational marijuana in the city, while also creating a novel reparations fund that would offer payments of up to $80,000 to people arrested, convicted, or…

Amid a wave of job cuts in the tech and media sectors, The Post’s long-expected reductions punctuate a period of uncertainty

Initiative will launch this April with ‘RiverRun: Arts Nature Impact,’ a month of performances, installations, exhibits and other events celebrating the world’s rivers

Proponents of DC statehood pledged this morning to keep pressing the issue despite what a key senator called the "elephant in the room" — that Republican control of the House means legislation to admit DC as the 51st state is unlikely to…

The school will become the first historically Black institution to lead one of the Pentagon’s 15 university-affiliated research centers

The District’s first-ever elected attorney general hurtled toward his last day in office with the relentlessness of a man whose work remains unfinished.

Mayor Muriel Bowser on Saturday hosted a frank and nuanced summit on crime and public safety in D.C. with dozens of neighborhood officials, noting that while overall rates of violent crime have been declining, guns have become a growing…

Local officials are scheduled to join Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware for a press conference on Tuesday morning to announce his reintroduction of the DC statehood bill.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser said the sound of gunfire in D.C. neighborhoods reminds her of the 1990s crack epidemic

The decision came days after a public dust-up between Metro and the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission

What was it like for the most outspoken D.C. Housing Authority commissioners to watch as politicians removed them from the board?

Hundreds of buses that transport kids to schools around D.C. have experienced significant delays since the start of the month, leaving parents scrambling to get their kids to and from school everyday.

The District has long been a leader in terms of green buildings — buildings that highly efficient and require little energy to stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer. In 2022, D.C. certified more green building square footage than…

A 15-year-old, shot while standing outside a carryout in Southeast D.C. on Tuesday evening, drew a gun from his waistband and fired multiple times in the direction of his assailant, who fled on foot. But the teen’s gunfire struck…

Mayor Muriel Bowser's inaugural remarks are drawing another round of attention, with Politico Magazine writing today about her plea to the White House to reduce the federal government's footprint downtown unless more of its workers return…

The mayor raised a variety of concerns about the bill, but avoided a symbolic veto of legislation overhauling the lab.

Using lessons learned from COVID-19, MedStar Washington Hospital Center opened a unique facility designed to stop diseases from spreading.

The corporate parent of movie theater chain Regal says it will close the Gallery Place Stadium 14 theater in downtown D.C. next month as part of a broader wave of theater closures that are taking place as part of bankruptcy proceedings.

First, there were speed cameras. Then came red light cameras and stop sign cameras. Now, some D.C. councilmembers want to try a new type of “camera” to identify, and ultimately ticket, noisy vehicles.