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Jurisdictions across the D.C. region are scheduled to conduct an annual census of residents experiencing homelessness Wednesday evening. The goal of the survey – called the Point-in-Time Count — is to capture a snapshot of the number of…

House Republicans are ushering in a new era of intervention in local D.C. affairs, and their first target is the city's handling of crime.

In October, Mayor Muriel Bowser visited Center City Public Charter School's Brightwood campus to surprise Jermar Rountree with the news that he had received the 2023 DC Teacher of the Year Award. This afternoon, her office announced that…

Washington Metrorail Safety Commission members said Metro should have fired or removed an operator for lying during an investigation

Sen. Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.) gathered with Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and D.C. leaders on Tuesday to reintroduce a bill to give nearly 700,000 D.C. residents statehood, pushing the long-sought goal in a year marking the 50th anniversary of…

Before passing a controversial crime bill, D.C.’s council members and criminal justice experts worked for 16 years to craft it. Now, it’s getting pushback from Congressional Republicans, who could block it.

The Washington Post is cutting 20 newsroom positions and not filling 30 open positions, The Post's executive editor Sally Buzbee told staff in a note Tuesday.

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.