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As thousands visit and enjoy the District’s Cherry Blossom Festival, it is also marking the 110th anniversary of Japan’s gift to the United States that started the tradition.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s proposed fiscal year 2023 budget calls for keeping police officers in schools, setting up another clash with the D.C. Council, which voted last year to phase out police in school buildings despite strong opposition…

The National Park Service is planning to close two homeless camps on park property this May, and is asking D.C. to help with housing assistance.

A former library assistant who worked at George Washington University for nearly 30 years is suing the institution and its insurer, alleging discrimination and retaliation over his leave request that he said resulted in him losing his job,…

A neighbor claims the owner of Eighteenth Street Lounge slammed a car door against her son's leg.

There are too many deer in D.C. and its surrounding suburbs, according to the National Park Service. Without natural predators, deer populations have exploded in recent decades, threatening local ecosystems.

The Department of Forensic Sciences’ crime lab has been functionally closed since April 2021

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine added a slew of defendants — including the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers — to his lawsuit over the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by violent protesters loyal to then-President Donald Trump.

District voters will grade some of their leaders (and their challengers) by way of the ballot box this year. An evaluation of their work will be reflected in report cards handed out on primary day, June 21, and in the general election,…

Under a best-case scenario, D.C.’s crime lab might not be cleared to handle DNA and seized drugs until next spring — nearly two years after a national board pulled the lab’s accreditation to perform forensic casework amid allegations lab…

Nora Vencill has noticed a peculiar dynamic develop in her ninth grade English class at Poolesville High School in Montgomery County.

Amid the economic fallout from business closures at the onset of the pandemic, record levels of unemployment claims overwhelmed the DC Department of Employment Services, fueling complaints about long waits on the phone and conflicting…

Ultraconservative Republicans, eagerly anticipating taking control of the House in this November’s midterm elections, are proclaiming a desire to cut back or eliminate the limited home rule that Congress granted D.C. in 1973. If the Senate…

For the community selected to host a new FBI headquarters, it would be the economic development win of a generation.

More traffic cameras, booting of vehicles, crossing guards, and bike and bus lanes are among the mayor’s initiatives for the 2023 fiscal year

The drive to build a new FBI headquarters has been hung up for years, but a U.S. senator from Maryland said it’s still on the way, and “There’s no turning back.”

The Barclay, a 56-unit rent controlled apartment building near Dupont Circle, was sold three times in the last 20 years—most recently in 2021. I wanted to see if and how tenants used the District’s Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA)…

Greater Washington Partnership CEO JB Holston is stepping down, with Thursday as his last day, though he’ll stay on as a senior adviser to the board and leadership through the end of the year, per the leadership's request, the organization…

The kids have been saying it throughout the pandemic: They’re not okay.

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson has called for a vote next Tuesday on emergency legislation that would allow the city to close down virtually any business that gives gifts of marijuana starting in mid-May, while at the same time…