The former owners of six D.C. assisted living facilities will pay over $1.5 million for failing to fully compensate their front-line health care workers during the height of the pandemic.
The DC Council voted 12-1 this afternoon to override Mayor Muriel Bowser's veto of the Revised Criminal Code Act, with legislators disputing — and criticizing — the mayor's claims that provisions in the bill would make the District less!-->…
Some college kids are heading back to campus this month with a fatter bank account after working seasonal jobs. Or maybe they made fantastic travel memories on a winter break trip.
Washington could become a more dangerous city if the D.C. Council votes Tuesday, as currently planned, to override Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s veto of a bill that decreases punishments for violent crimes such as carjackings, home invasion!-->…
Chelsea Van Thof started calling on D.C. officials to add a barrier to the Taft Bridge after her partner’s suicide. Days ago, she saw police cars there again.
Josefa Ippolito-Shepherd tried cleaning, pleading and suing, but she said the attack on her home of 30 years was unrelenting. Sometimes she felt as though she couldn’t breathe, couldn’t sleep, couldn’t live out her retirement in her!-->…
D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto has requested police body-worn camera footage captured when officers responded to the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Karon Blake on Jan. 7.
When Angel Gregorio closed on the property at 2201 Channing St. in Northeast D.C., it was the home of a tow truck company and little was happening in the industrial neighborhood. It was “ugly and gross,” she said.
Calling for a “cease-fire,” D.C. council member for Ward 4, Janeese Lewis George, issued a passionate plea to the community Friday, begging people to put an end to the gun violence that has flared up across the District.