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D.C.’s Office of the Attorney General will investigate the proposed $20 billion merger between grocery chains Albertsons and Kroger, and attorneys general in the District and five states want Albertsons, the owner of Safeway, to postpone a…

When art collectors Mera and Don Rubell open their long-anticipated contemporary art museum in Southwest D.C. this week, the public will finally get to see the result of a $20 million renovation over a decade in the making.

On Nov. 8, D.C. residents will not only be voting on mayor, attorney general, and D.C. Council seats, but also the state board of education.

Like everyone who is stocking up on Halloween candy, the DC government is making preparations for Halloween weekend.

A week after the D.C. Council awarded multibillion-dollar contracts for insuring D.C.’s Medicaid patients to three insurers, seeming to finally end a years-long struggle to right the city’s Medicaid system after court and council fights,…

The owner of the historic Blues Alley jazz club in Georgetown said he hopes to reopen for business early next week, after his venue shut down Tuesday evening when smoke poured from the top of the building.

At the start of the year, crime spiked in the District.

A new report from two labor groups says that many bars and restaurants in D.C. are failing to report required data on how much tipped workers are being paid, but an association representing the hospitality industry says that any such…

On Nov. 8, D.C. voters will head to the polls to decide several important races, including a tightly contested race for two at-large seats on the D.C. Council and a high-profile ballot initiative on the tipped minimum wage.

Voters will elect two at-large D.C. Council members to represent the entire city in the highly competitive Nov. 8 election.

An unprecedented trial began this week at D.C.’s federal courthouse, where two D.C. police officers face a combination of second-degree murder, obstruction, and conspiracy charges related to the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown.…

Following a history lesson, defense attorney Michael Hannon claimed officers were obligated to stop Hylton-Brown.

DC tourism officials are proposing a temporary hike in the hotel tax to fund more vigorous marketing campaigns — a step they say is necessary in the face of similar initiatives from other travel destinations that have more successfully…

Two years ago, after a young Black man on a moped was fatally injured in a traffic collision during a D.C. police chase, scores of irate protesters converged on a police station in Northwest Washington, clashing with officers in riot gear.…

The agreement allows Metro to put many more trains into passenger service, but it also requires wheel checks to continue every four days

Metro has the green light to bring all the 7000-series trains back to the tracks, with restrictions.

Much of D.C.’s criminal code dates to the original version Congress passed in 1901. That it is badly in need of an overhaul is apparent from its references to “common scolds,” prohibitions against the playing of ballgames in the city’s…

A senior official in Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration has been fired and could face an ethics investigation after he failed to recuse himself from matters related to a large city contract that involved a health insurance company he had…

A D.C. Council committee is moving ahead with plans to debate and vote on a rewrite of the city’s criminal code, something that hasn’t been done in more than a century. There’s widespread agreement that it should be done, and nearly all of…

Four out of five D.C. teachers are unhappy with their jobs and nearly half plan to leave their roles in the next few years, according to a survey the Washington Teachers’ Union conducted in September.