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WASHINGTON (7News) — Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. School Chancellor Lewis Ferebee were among a dozen elected officials warned about fire safety shortfalls in public schools in 2019.

Road salt, while helping to keep streets and sidewalks safe during winter weather, can have a big negative impact on streams and rivers and the freshwater creatures that inhabit them. New research from the University of Maryland posits…

911 calls show a possible 30-minute delay in getting police on the scene to help and David Earl Griffin's family believes his death could have been prevented.

On a questionnaire for her ongoing nomination to the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson listed among her affiliations the Cosmos Club — an exclusive D.C. social club near Dupont Circle.

Kuwait announced it would provide additional financial support to complete the construction of the National Desert Storm and Desert Shield Memorial on D.C.’s National Mall.

The District, in partnership with the nonprofit Building Bridges Across the River, or “Building Bridges,” has unveiled plans for an interactive “Mussel Beach” play area at the upcoming 11th Street Bridge Park in Southeast.

The District’s Office of Planning has released its New York Avenue NE Roadmap, which includes plans to improve infrastructure, civic facilities and provide new jobs.

The sound reached Daniel Adler first: a chorus of honks that seemed to be moving closer.

With mask mandates in the Washington region lifted for most settings and attitudes about social distancing more relaxed, health officials are cautiously monitoring the behavior of the latest subvariant of the coronavirus.

The General Services Administration on Friday confirmed that the lease on the Trump International Hotel can be transferred to an affiliate of Miami’s CGI Merchant Group, setting up its eventual rebranding as the District’s first Waldorf…

Indoor areas have been closed since the start of the pandemic.

The hotel, which was a center of controversy during Trump’s presidency, will become a Waldorf Astoria under the nearly completed deal

BA.2, the highly contagious omicron subvariant of COVID-19 driving yet another surge of cases in Europe, has reached D.C., a District health official said Friday.

The drowning of a grandfather of 17, who jumped into the Washington Channel more than 30 minutes after an initial 911 call, has prompted the District’s Office of Unified Communications to review procedures when Fire and EMS calls for help…

The DC Office of Planning (OP) is turning its attention to the New York Avenue corridor for a series of planning efforts intended to facilitate additional development and housing production with the goal of adding 33,000 new housing units…

Right on time, one of the two eggs in the Bald Eagle nest at D.C.’s National Arboretum began the hatching process.

A second egg is expected to follow any day now for the eagle pair known as Mr. P and Lotus

Bowser task force had suggested about 50 sites be renamed amid protests against racial injustice

With the submission deadline for nominating petitions having passed, the DC Board of Elections today released an updated — but not yet final — list of candidates in the June 21 primaries.

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), passed in the wake of the Watergate scandal, is a crucial tool to hold government officials accountable. Under the law, anyone can ask any D.C. agency to disclose almost any documents. The purpose is…