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Councilmember Trayon White has asked skeptics to show him their IDs.

Experts say DC Water, which operates Blue Plains, has become a forward-thinking leader in both adaptation and mitigation.

House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) has rejected a last-minute request by Republicans to invite embattled D.C. Council member Jack Evans to testify at Thursday’s hearing on D.C. statehood.

District leaders are headed to Capitol Hill, where Congress will hold its first hearing on D.C. statehood in more than 25 years. After Thursday’s hearing, an evening of rallying and celebration is scheduled, which could affect traffic.

FOUR MINUTES and one second. That is how long it took before D.C. firefighters were dispatched to the blaze at a Northwest rowhouse last month. Was there a delay in sending help that might have contributed to the deaths of two people? Or…

D.C. officials and advocates have agitated for generations to make the District the 51st state. On Thursday, they make their case to Congress.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser plans to sign emergency legislation that would allow students who are enrolled as patients in the District’s medical marijuana program to get treatment in schools, according to a spokesperson for the mayor’s…

The D.C. Council, frustrated by roadblocks in its investigation of possible ethics violations by member Jack Evans, voted 12 to 1 this week to allow city officials to ask a court to compel the lawmaker’s private clients to cooperate.

The State of the Washington Region Commute is… not great.

Ahead of the first D.C. statehood hearing in decades in the House of Representatives, we’ve got answers to all the questions you were afraid to ask about the District’s bid to become the 51st state.

So you’re ready to plant some perennials or shrubs in your yard or maybe have some empty pots on the balcony, but you don’t know where to start. No worries. There are a variety of native flora that will not only be suitable for your space…

District leaders will advocate for equal voting rights and full representation

More extreme thunderstorms and hurricanes. Entire summers of “heat emergency” days. Regular flooding along the Potomac River and Anacostia River, as well as inland neighborhoods, where storm drains are overwhelmed by rain.

Wyoming has two senators and over 1.3 million cattle. DC has no senators, three cows and many more people. How is this fair? It's time for statehood.

In 1788, two years before Washington, D.C. became the seat of the nation’s government, James Madison wrote that the future inhabitants in the yet-to-be-chosen federal district should have a “voice in the election of the government which is…

Happy Wednesday. DC Council members signaled they support drastic cutbacks on vaping, introducing bills with widespread support yesterday to ban the distribution of flavored electric cigarette products and restrict where products can be…

The Trump administration will come to regret its decision to rule out a development site east of the Anacostia River from the competition for a new Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters, a top official for D.C. Mayor Muriel…

The Washington Monument is set to reopen Thursday with a repaired elevator and a new security screening center after a three-year closure.

Keya Chatterjee was sick of paying $300 a month in electricity bills. After three years of arguing with Pepco, D.C.’s electric utility, about how on earth her small household could be consuming so much power (all to no avail), she made a…

New legislation would ensure the program doesn’t lapse at the end of next year