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More than ten years after Miami-based art collecting couple Don and Mera Rubell bought the old Randall Junior High School site in Southwest D.C., the museum the art moguls envisioned there finally has a plan to open this fall.

DC Fire and EMS will hold a parade along the National Mall on Saturday to celebrate 150 years of serving the District and to honor 101 fallen firefighters.

Lauren Grimes encourages high school students to be involved in civics on a local, national and international level.

After not submitting daily COVID-19 case rates to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for about two weeks, DC Health yesterday reported 1,096 cases in the District since April 27.

D.C. police have hired former U.S. Park Police Chief Pamela Smith to serve as the department’s first chief equity officer.

The proposed expansion of Union Station envisions a transformation of the nation’s second-largest rail hub by 2040

School resource officers are one step closer to being phased out in the District’s public schools.

This comes on top of the mayor’s $2.2 billion budget plan

Climbing COVID-19 case numbers are pushing many D.C.-area jurisdictions from low into medium community spread.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday gave unanimous initial approval to the city’s $19.5 billion budget for the coming year, giving Mayor Muriel Bowser funding to hire up to 350 police officers and almost a half-billion dollars for affordable…

The D.C. Council voted to keep phasing police out of public schools — despite the objections of the mayor and city principals’ union, which had said officers are needed to prevent school violence — as it approved a fiscal 2023 budget…

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the owner of a vacant Ward 6 building, alleging that they have made false statements since at least 2015 to avoid paying increased taxes on the property.

It’s the latest bit of fallout from allegations of problems at D.C.’s small business agency.

New York-based JPMorgan Chase, one of the few banks that is expanding its number of retail branches in the D.C. metro area, has cut the ribbon on its new mid-Atlantic headquarters in downtown D.C.

Metro has selected its next general manager — Randy Clarke, who has led the transit system in Austin, Texas, since 2018 and previously worked at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in multiple roles.

Orange called Parker’s decision to come out “a matter of convenience.”

Randy Clarke, a public transit CEO from Austin, Texas, is WMATA’s new general manager. He will face a series of challenges getting the country’s second-largest transit agency back on track.

Randy Clarke will replace Paul J. Wiedefeld, who has served as top executive for six years and will retire this summer

The D.C. health department has not shared data with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since April 27 on the number of new coronavirus cases in the District or on any deaths from the virus, as cases inch upward again elsewhere…

More than 100 journalists contributed to reporting on the Capitol insurrection that was honored by the Pulitzer Prize’s most prestigious award.