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D.C.’s ambitious $92 million 11th Street Bridge Park has been in the works for a decade, and is finally slated to begin construction next year. But a last-minute permitting problem nearly upended the project: D.C. environmental regulators…

The D.C. Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a sweeping overhaul of the city’s century-old criminal code, a monumental 16-year effort that updates the definitions of criminal offenses, creates new grades of sentences based on the…

The D.C. Housing Authority is allegedly responsible for spending nearly $1 million in illegally sole-sourced contracts awarded to a software company, attempts to skirt oversight, and other concerning actions, according to an internal…

The older you get, the more important it is to stay healthy.

One audit says DCHA was overcharged by $2.1 million. Another accuses Director Brenda Donald of contracting malfeasance.

The District of Columbia Housing Authority Executive Director Brenda Donald appeared to threaten retaliation against her agency’s own internal auditor last week in potential violation of the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989, following…

Later today the D.C. Council is set to cast a final vote on a monumental piece of legislation, a 450-page bill that would completely overhaul the city’s criminal laws. The full rewrite has been more than a decade in the making, spurred by…

At-large DC Council member Elissa Silverman is asking the DC Board of Elections to undertake a full review of the Office of Campaign Finance's ruling that she misspent campaign funds by polling voters on the Ward 3 primary race.

Busy and getting busier is how Children’s National Hospital described current cases of pediatric respiratory ailments in the D.C. area.

D.C. officials announced on Monday that student enrollment in the District’s public school system — including at traditional public schools and charter schools — is the highest it’s been since 2007 when counting began.

In the English language, the idiom “cooking with gas” means to be “doing something very well” or “making very good progress,” according to the dictionary. But if you stop to think about it, it’s actually a little barbaric: cooking over an…

Michael Saylor lived large while allegedly paying no D.C. income tax. Here’s how whistleblowers unraveled what could be one of the largest tax scams in city history.

More than 96,000 students are attending traditional public and charter schools this year, according to preliminary data

The number of students attending schools in D.C. this year is the highest it has been since the city started an annual tally in 2007, revealing significant growth for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic.

D.C. voters have overwhelmingly approved Initiative 82, which phases out the tipped minimum wage and will require business owners to pay tipped workers like bartenders and servers the city’s full minimum wage by 2027 without relying on…

The figures are still tentative, but DC officials are reporting the city's highest public school enrollment in 15 years.

A planned renovation of Washington’s train station includes expanded tracks and concourses, underground parking and new amenities over two decades

Union Station had as many as 100 stores more than two decades ago. It’s down to about 40 retailers and eateries while more than half its commercial space sits vacant.

The D.C. Housing Authority illegally contracted with a Virginia-based software company, spending about $1 million without competitive bidding and splitting the amount into smaller purchases to escape scrutiny from the agency’s board,…

On Nov. 8, Muriel E. Bowser (D) won a third term as mayor of Washington, in an expected victory in this heavily Democratic city. The Washington Post sat down with Bowser ahead of the election to ask about schools, development and the term…