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The American Civil Liberties Union of D.C. and the Justice Department announced a settlement on Wednesday to resolve portions of four civil lawsuits sparked by the June 2020 violent and unprovoked clearing of demonstrators from Lafayette…

Longtime local transgender advocates Earline Budd and Jeri Hughes, who have served for more than a decade on the D.C. Department of Corrections’ Transgender Housing and Transgender Advisory committees, say they have witnessed first-hand…

Labor group has clashed with incumbent Muriel E. Bowser during the pandemic

The Justice Department said Wednesday that settlements have been reached in four civil cases after protesters were removed from D.C.’s Lafayette Square during civil rights demonstrations in June 2020.

Nearly two years after the Trump administration ordered racial justice protestors cleared from Lafayette Park ahead of a presidential photo-op in front of a nearby church, the Justice Department announced official changes to federal rules…

Howard University announced today that the school’s president, Wayne A. I. Frederick, will retire by June 2024. Frederick was appointed as interim president in 2013 and has been in the permanent role since 2014. Prior to taking on the…

A D.C. police captain sued the District on Tuesday, alleging he was retaliated against after trying to stop a high-speed pursuit last month that ended with a car overturning on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, causing injuries and…

Howard University President Wayne A. I. Frederick will retire by June 2024, according to a school announcement Wednesday.

The nine-person contest to replace Councilmember Mary Cheh is starting to take shape after a chaotic start.

Metro seeks to bring back its beleaguered 7000-series trains this summer with the help of a new regular monitoring system — a suite of sensors in the tracks that can measure the distance between the wheels on each train car.

Howard University’s president will retire from his post by June 2024, the school’s board of trustees announced Wednesday.

When a rabid fox bit nine people by the Capitol Hill grounds last week, D.C. Health called on anyone who had interacted with the creature to get in contact to determine whether they should undergo rabies treatment.

The DC Council finished up its flurry of budget oversight hearings last week, meaning legislators will soon decide whether to alter the mayor's proposals in order to address issues raised by advocates and other witnesses.

Union Kitchen plans to open a new grocery on Barracks Row as it continues to expand its footprint in Greater Washington.

American University can now officially move forward with its 2021 campus plan, with the formal blessing from the D.C. Zoning Commission.

Washington’s transit system has been kept alive during the pandemic, barely, thanks to federal relief funds. That life support — about $1 billion in the current fiscal year, split about equally between operating and capital funds — will…

A handful of D.C. music venues, including all the venues under the I.M.P. umbrella — 9:30 Club, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Lincoln Theatre, and The Anthem — have dropped their vaccine requirements to attend shows.

Koube Ngaaje, the president and CEO of the District Alliance for Safe Housing, says she feels like her organization has been facing three pandemics: “COVID, domestic violence, and the racial reckoning that we are all living in, with a…

Another Northeast DC institutional site is poised for a large new townhouse development.

The longtime housing committee chair scandalized advocates with comments during a recent hearing.