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About 40 migrant children could enroll in D.C. public schools, the city schools chief said Wednesday after an announcement from the mayor that school-aged children who arrive on buses from the southern border can attend classes in the…

Because of a lack of support, the children won’t be starting school on time, and some will struggle to attend at all, advocates say

Federal appellate judges rejected the D.C. police union’s challenge of a law that gives the Metropolitan Police Department more power over police disciplinary processes. The law, originally passed in 2020, strips police discipline from…

A national restaurant trade group and owners of some local restaurant chains are waging a high-stakes and last-ditch legal battle to prevent D.C. residents from voting on whether the city should do away with the tipped wage.

Some D.C. public school students may return next week to buildings that lack working heating and cooling systems. Additionally, some students may be unable to return at all to classes due to missing key vaccination requirements.

Maryland and Virginia leaders have opposing views when it comes to where the FBI should build its new headquarters.

Nigel hasn’t been up for his late-morning walks recently. The golden-brown basset hound typically likes routine as much as the next pup: walks around meal times and as much play as he can beg for in between. But on a recent D.C. evening,…

An all-clear was given a little more than two hours after the evacuation order

Private equity billionaire David Rubenstein is part of a bid from Monumental Sports & Entertainment Managing Partner Ted Leonsis to potentially buy the Washington Nationals from the Lerner family, according to a person with knowledge…

D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee can still skip going through the police union to discipline officers, thanks to a recent court ruling.

Ted Leonsis, the owner of Washington’s NBA, NHL and WNBA franchises, has emerged as a suitor for the Washington Nationals, multiple people familiar with the process said Tuesday.

The District government is working to make an accessory apartment (or accessory dwelling unit or ADU) a bit easier to build. The legalization of accessory apartments as part of the 2016 zoning regulations update was a landmark change, but…

Former teachers and staff of Whittle School & Studios, who were terminated abruptly in early July when the private school campus in D.C. was shuttered, on Monday received a portion of one missing paycheck.

A panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has upheld a provision in a city law that makes it easier for the police chief to discipline officers, a measure that lawmakers passed more than two years ago amid social…

Independent at-large D.C. Council candidate Karim Marshall is asking the city’s Office of Campaign Finance to investigate whether Council member Elissa Silverman (I-At Large), one of his opponents in the race, violated any rules while…

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has introduced a bill in the House to provide $50 million in emergency aid for thousands of migrants being bused into the District from Texas and Arizona.

Head to Kingman Island today, and you might be able to catch a rare glimpse of a certain graceful, long-necked bird with a slate blue, white, and copper feathers, dipping its long bill in the water.

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton has introduced an emergency appropriations bill that would provide $50 million in additional assistance to the migrants being bused from Texas and Arizona to the District.

Diane Huff-Lyons is pretty sure her late mother, Lillian, would be pleased to know that the new library building in the District’s Riggs Park neighborhood was renamed in her honor. But something else would have been even more important to…

NoMa’s Hampton Inn – a hotel D.C. uses for COVID-19 isolation and temporary quarantine for unhoused Washingtonians – has effectively become a family shelter for asylum seekers sent to D.C. by red state governors, according to multiple…