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On July 16, workers in the District’s 911 call center received an email announcing changes were coming. Problems staffing the center meant there would be mandatory overtime, even on scheduled days off, and any additional leave would be…

The promotion, available through December, is one more incentive that the region’s leaders are using to get residents back.

The DC Circulator will remain free through at least the end of September, per an emergency order issued by the District’s government on Monday.

Metro said that it is prepared to ramp up coronavirus testing of its workforce if their vaccination rates do not reach more than 70%.

D.C. officials and tenant advocates Monday urged eligible tenants to apply for the city’s rent relief program, before the District’s eviction moratorium expires later this year.

A D.C. police officer was found dead of an apparent suicide last week in his Virginia home, a spokeswoman said Monday.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser appears to have written a check that the D.C. Council won’t cash.

They had planned an October wedding, a culmination of a nine-year courtship that began in the school where they taught developmentally disabled children.

After Mayor Muriel E. Bowser proposed bolstering D.C.’s police force by rerouting $11 million to new officers in the city’s budget, two members of the D.C. Council on Monday countered with their own approach: using more than half of that…

Metro’s top executive on Monday warned employees that the transit system might start mandatory coronavirus testing if the agency’s vaccination rate doesn’t climb to at least 70 percent.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser submitted her revised District budgets Monday, asking for additional funding to add 170 officers to the police department.

Two years ago, 13-year-old Jahani Hester lost one of his best friends, Karon Brown, after the 11-year-old was shot and killed while trying to flee a neighborhood conflict. He’s still working to heal from that loss.

Vernice Puryear, who lives in Ward 7, is supportive of the COVID-19 vaccine. But she says she understands why some other Black D.C. residents, particularly those living in wards 7 and 8, are skeptical about it.

At least seven D.C.-area universities have grappled, some more successfully than others, with a series of lawsuits filed by students and their families seeking partial refunds for tuition and mandatory fees they paid before classes were…

Advocates continue to push for more funding for excluded workers ahead of tomorrow’s final budget vote.

The number of people running for elected office and contributing to local D.C. campaigns increased in 2020, likely because of the city’s new program that offers public financing to candidates running for elected office.

The Washington Examiner writer on the story was not invited to the wedding, an organizer says.

Because of serious and long-term failures in the governance and operation of the Adams Morgan Partnership Business Improvement District (BID), several dozen investors in the properties that pay the majority of the taxes that fund the Adams…

D.C. may be awash in federal funding these days, but one infrastructure project will likely go unfunded in this year’s budget: a pedestrian tunnel to better link the NoMa Metro station to the neighborhood’s booming east side around Union…

The D.C. Council approved an initial budget plan funding the city’s Office for the Deaf, Deafblind, and Hard of Hearing (ODDHH) during a virtual meeting on July 20. If left intact during the council’s upcoming Aug. 3 vote, the budget will…