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Disenfranchising a city of more than 700,000 people, it turns out, requires a lot of work, if the contretemps between the D.C. municipal court system and the U.S. Senate is any indication.

A new report from the D.C. Auditor says internal oversight practices at the troubled D.C. crime lab were broken and ineffective long before the lab lost its accreditation last year.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) and top public safety officials on Friday offered a public show of support for Karima Holmes — her choice to lead the District’s oft-scrutinized 911 call center — defending her nomination while pushing back…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Friday stridently defended her nominee to head D.C.’s troubled 911 agency, Karima Holmes.

The District government is reissuing its request for proposals to redevelop the Reeves Center — what’s been a long-delayed process for one of the city’s most prominent sites — but this time without a requirement for the eventual developers…

Some DCHA commissioners will host an unofficial meeting with Empower DC ahead of a D.C. Council vote on a bill that would reconfigure the board.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser gathered the top chiefs from the city’s public safety agencies to talk about plans to make holiday shoppers feel safer in commercial districts.

The D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences has failed to operate as an independent part of the justice system, a report from the Office of the D.C. Auditor has found.

A reader, Leroy Swain, took me to task for stating in last week’s column on juvenile crime that I didn’t want to start a “blaming and shaming game about unstable families in our community.”

Mayor Muriel Bowser is proposing a new DCHA board that would eliminate critics.

On a quiet, tree-lined street near D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood, one house looks just like all the others. Plants and garden figurines cover the front yard, with concrete steps that lead up to the front door. On a sunny day, there’s…

Legislators are slated to decide next week whether to accept Mayor Muriel Bowser's plans for reforms to the governance of the DC Housing Authority amid loud objections from many advocates for residents of the city's public housing.

The D.C. Council is set to vote on a proposal making all Metrobus service in the District free starting next Summer.

D.C.'s streets and office buildings are fuller now than they were for most of 2020, but foot traffic and the economic activity that comes with it remain far below pre-pandemic levels.

Mayor Muriel Bowser is proposing a new DCHA board that would eliminate critics.

The legislation could give Mayor Muriel E. Bowser more control over governance of the embattled agency as its leaders work to comply with federal standards

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson have introduced emergency legislation that would dissolve the D.C. Housing Authority’s current 13-member Board of Commissioners and replace it with what they call a…

The city of Washington, D.C., is roaring.

Everyone seems to agree: more solar energy is a good thing. But a bill to require more solar in the District is dividing environmental advocates. Some say it’s needed to keep the local solar industry from crashing, while others say it…

The findings closely reflect the results of a previous City Paper investigation into the Department of Forensic Sciences.