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DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb is suing more than 25 companies for manufacturing "forever chemicals" that he says are contaminating the District's waterways and other natural resources.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has nominated former U.S. Park Police chief Pamela A. Smith to lead the city’s police force.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday nominated Pamela Smith to serve as chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, tapping the former chief of the U.S. Park Police and current ordained minister to replace former chief Robert Contee at a…

Smith spent 24 years with the U.S. Park Police before joining D.C. police in May 2022. If confirmed by the D.C. Council, she would be the second woman and the first Black woman to permanently run the agency.

Despite his pending court claim of actual innocence, ANC Leonard Bishop says he is scheduled for transfer to a prison in Kentucky.

Mayor Muriel Bowser today named Pamela Smith to head the Metropolitan Police Department, choosing a candidate who joined the agency in May 2022 as its first chief equity officer after retiring from the U.S. Park Police.

Prosecutors are dropping dozens of criminal cases, and courts are reversing guilty judgments due to alleged police misconduct.

GOP leaders in the House tout an array of DC-related provisions in the latest appropriations bill as supporting conservative values and priorities, but local officials are decrying them as a broad attack on the District's autonomy.

Remember “Operation Clean Sweep?” That was D.C. Mayor Marion Barry’s 1986 effort to pulverize the highly visible street-level drug trade and reduce the killings linked to drug trafficking. The D.C. police deployed a force of more than 100…

Dorian Jenkins, a consultant for the District’s housing authority, said he will work hard as DCHA continues to address problems HUD identified last year

House Republicans mounted a full-frontal attack on D.C.’s ability to govern itself this week. They moved forward with bills that would do everything from altering the city’s traffic laws and gun restrictions to upending how residents vote…

The service lane along the Cleveland Park corridor will remain closed to cars for the foreseeable future in the latest win for pedestrians over the future of D.C. streets.

House Republicans pummeled D.C. on Thursday by advancing a barrage of restrictive measures that would introduce a host of new funding blockades on D.C. policies, including one to ban the city from using traffic cameras, a key source of…

The U.S. Government Accountability Office report comes as D.C. advances multiple efforts to revitalize the downtown corridor

Transit leaders said the tunnel between Foggy Bottom and Rosslyn limits the number of trains Metro can run while areas served by rail continue to boom with new residents

Survivors have a legal right to request a rape kit without law enforcement involvement; recently introduced legislation seeks to ensure those kits are protected.

The D.C. Council passed emergency legislation this week that aims to crack down on rising violent crime in part by making it easier to detain certain adults and juveniles before they go to trial.

Weeks after a House subcommittee approved an appropriations bill with multiple policy riders restricting the DC government as well as cuts to requested federal spending for DC's courts, the full House Committee on Appropriations is marking…

The pressure’s on: As D.C. confronts a violent summer, the mayor and city council are banking on new legislation to reduce crime — and fast.

An affordable housing consultant will step in as the interim director of D.C.’s troubled public housing agency on August 1, after the DC Housing Authority’s board of commissioners held a long-awaited vote on Wednesday to authorize the…