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D.C. officials are staring down a stark reality: Our criminal justice system is a mass incarceration mess. Seven in 10 imprisoned Washingtonians are serving sentences of a decade or longer. These lengthy punishments do little to help…

A popular Rock Creek Park trail near the National Zoo reopened this month, but there’s a catch: it closes earlier than before.

AG Karl Racine is making headlines over reports that his office is almost ready to act against the Washington Commanders and owner Daniel Snyder as the result of a long-running investigation into allegations of workplace misconduct and…

NEW YORK — The office of D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) has nearly completed its investigation of the Washington Commanders and their owner, Daniel Snyder, and is planning to take further action in the case, according to a person…

Voting is a foundational right of citizenship. That’s why we oppose a bill, poised to pass the D.C. Council this week, that would allow an estimated 50,000 noncitizen residents to cast ballots in local elections.

A D.C. cannabis company has sued the city for damages and to demand the return of roughly $70,000 seized as evidence in police raids last year that yielded criminal charges, but no convictions.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has named the District’s top teacher.

Victor Martinez is leaving after less than a year. Advocates say it’s part of a pattern of staff churn for the troubled agency.

Mayor Muriel Bowser visited Center City Public Charter School's Brightwood campus this morning to announce Jermar Rountree as recipient of the 2023 DC Teacher of the Year Award.

As D.C. lawmakers prepare to award some of the city’s most lucrative contracts — paying three insurance companies more than $2 billion to provide health care for about a third of all D.C. residents — council members are caught in a bitter…

Former D.C. Deputy Mayor Chris Geldart — who resigned this week after an argument in an Arlington, Virginia, parking lot led to a police statement that the District official lived in Falls Church — is defending his living arrangement.

The D.C. attorney general is opening an investigation into governors who are relocating migrants to the nation's capital, according to the Texas Tribune and ProPublica.

Chris Geldart resigned as a top D.C. official over an assault allegation and questions about where he lives

Metro has escalated its sense of urgency in finding more revenue, trying to make the case that it can’t move forward alone

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and others have been sending thousands of immigrants to Washington, D.C. Karl Racine, the district’s attorney general, is investigating whether immigrants have been deceived.

Days after a scathing report laying out public housing failures, the D.C. Housing Authority held an emergency meeting with its board on the report, issued by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

D.C. Green Bank's inaugural chief is exiting as the financial organization prepares to emerge from its "startup" phase and take advantage of federal resources now available to support sustainable construction.

Our rector at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Foggy Bottom, the Rev. Wesley Williams, leads us weekly in a prayer specially composed for “a country that swells with an ocean of weapons.” Citing violence in our streets, he prays, “Strengthen…

The process of overhauling D.C.’s criminal code finally goes before the D.C. Council for the first time next week.

A massive overhaul of D.C.’s outdated criminal code is nearing the legislative finish line.