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Thirty years after Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton first introduced a bill for Washington, D.C., statehood, she returns to Capitol Hill to do it again — this time with the broadest support for the cause to date.

An investigator called Kiss Lounge "a dumpster fire of violations."

The so-called strike force may recommend amending the ban to allow landlords to file evictions against tenants who pose “substantial threats to health and safety.”

One of the last multifamily properties owned by controversial landlord Sanford Capital is slated to be sold at a foreclosure auction next month, nearly three years after the Bethesda-based ownership group agreed under a court-approved…

Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, from the blockbuster hit “Transformers,” are hard to miss, standing roughly 6 and 10 feet tall respectively outside the home of Dr. Newton Howard, a Georgetown University professor with a focus in artificial…

Angela Franco will stay on as permanent head of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, after leading the organization in an interim capacity for the last nine months following the abrupt resignation of Vincent Orange.

On March 15, 2020, four days after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a public health emergency in the District, Ana Owens and Katie Gentsch created a Google Sheet.

We’re halfway there: The D.C. region’s famous Yoshino cherry trees have reached the third of six stages on the path to peak bloom, park officials said Monday.

You won’t need to feed the meter but you will need to watch where you park in D.C. starting Monday.

As the House prepares to take up the issue this week of statehood for the District of Columbia, a new national poll finds that 54% of likely voters think D.C. should be a state, a record high level of support.

Our region’s state and local governments are getting a windfall totaling more than $15 billion in direct aid from the newly passed federal coronavirus relief plan, which will go a long way to help them repair damage from the…

The nation’s capital will shrink dramatically if H.R. 51 — otherwise known as the Washington D.C. Admission Act, and the subject of a congressional hearing Monday — is enacted and fully implemented. The nation’s capital will be reduced to…

The Washington, D.C., Admissions Act, HR-51 (SB-51 in the Senate), comes up for a hearing on March 22 in the House Oversight Committee. Introduced by nonvoting D.C. delegate-at-large, Eleanor Holmes Norton, HR-51 has 227 co-sponsors in the…

Make my generation the last to be denied equal representation in Congress. Make sure my future children won’t grow up in the shadows of democracy.

A commission created to help the District reinvent policing is preparing a final report that could propose sweeping changes, including taking officers out of schools, curtailing traffic enforcement and shrinking the department’s size and…

Iran has made threats against Fort McNair, an Army post in the U.S. capital, and against the Army’s vice chief of staff, two senior U.S. intelligence officials said.

Pearl Street Warehouse reopened dining on the first day of spring, but they're still anxiously awaiting rules for live music.

On Saturday, workers were scaling back the fencing that surrounds the U.S. Capitol.

Artist Katherine Ludwig stands on Washington Ave. SW watching and painted the scene with lines of blue ink as a group of five contractors remove razor wire from the 8-ft. black fencing that’s been erected around the Capitol since the…

A new organization in the District is working to educate policymakers and the business community on what it would mean to be the 51st state.