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Come November, D.C. voters will decide whether to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers through Initiative 82.

Mayor Muriel Bowser is marking the end of a lawsuit filed more than 30 years ago on behalf of children in D.C.’s foster care system.

Aryeh Wolf was installing solar panels in Southeast Washington on Aug. 10 when an assailant with a handgun shot him multiple times, killing the 25-year-old. On Aug. 24, students at the Mundo Verde Bilingual Public Charter School in…

Chelsea Van Thof began calling for the barrier after her long-term partner, Peter Tripp, jumped from the William Howard Taft Bridge in April

After months of legal challenges and behind-the-scenes lobbying, D.C. residents in November will again vote on a controversial ballot initiative that would dramatically change how tipped workers in the District are paid.

The Office of the D.C. Auditor says efforts to fix longstanding problems in the Office of Unified Communications, which operates the 911 call center, have produced only “minimal progress.”

The family of a 9-year-old student who suffered deadly injuries outside a D.C. public charter school last year is suing the school and its security company.

Nine-year-old Kaidyn Green was hit by a driver last December outside KIPP DC school. He died this June after complications from the crash, which left him in a wheelchair, and now his family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the…

Kaidyn Green was struck by a driver in front of KIPP DC Honor Academy in December 2021 and later died. His mother says the school let him wander unsupervised before the crash.

The report from D.C. Auditor Kathleen Patterson comes as the Office of Unified Communications is under scrutiny for apparent mishaps

District Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has repeatedly declared Washington a “sanctuary city,” driving home the point, in 2018, by denouncing the Trump administration’s policies, celebrating the city’s “diversity and inclusivity,” and…

On the heels of last week’s column on the rise of youth carjackings in D.C. came a Labor Day news conference by Prince George’s County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks (D), who drew a sharp focus on growing youth-involved crimes in her…

Eleven months after an initial audit, The D.C. Auditor’s office says little progress has been made on most of the recommendations made to improve the city’s emergency call system, which has received intense criticism in recent years over…

Since April 2020, the National Park Service’s (NPS) decision to close Rock Creek Park’s Beach Drive to vehicular traffic has sparked debate. On July 11, NPS announced its recommendation to open the road to cars on weekdays for most of the…

Gratitude might not be the reaction Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) was expecting when he began sending frequent busloads of migrants and asylum seekers to the greater D.C. area. But gratitude, warmth and a renewed sense of collective…

News of the death of Queen Elizabeth II brought retrospectives on the British monarch's multiple visits to official and local Washington during her lengthy reign.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) declared a public emergency Thursday over the influx of asylum seekers bused in from Texas and Arizona, a formality that allows her to release $10 million in city funds to aid the migrants while also…

Standard protocol when meeting Queen Elizabeth II held that you’re only to touch her should she offer her hand; under no circumstances should you hug her. But on a warm spring day in 1991, D.C. resident Alice Frazier threw all norms out…

Candidates running for local D.C. offices discussed strategies for violent crime prevention at a forum in Southeast Washington this week, grappling once again with a topic that District voters say is a preeminent concern.

It’s a shrimp-like crustacean found only in the city, and there’s a new plan to try to save it