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Legislation approved Tuesday by the D.C. Council sets the table for a new layer of accountability for the Metro Transit Police Department, which handles incidents on the transit system.

The D.C. Council has approved legislation that will create a civilian complaint board for the Metro Transit Police Department, once identical legislation is approved in Maryland and Virginia.

D.C. police said they fired pepper spray in a confrontation with activists outside a cellblock where a group gathered Monday evening to greet people being freed from detention after arrests during weekend demonstrations in downtown…

Happy Tuesday. Criminal justice reforms and pandemic responses once again proved a focal point for the council's legislative actions Tuesday as the sun set on the last legislative meeting of Council Period 23.

The lawsuit says the gym didn't abide to mask, social distancing, or sanitation guidelines.

In its final meeting of its two-year legislative term, the D.C. Council altered a rule on rehiring laid-off workers that has drawn criticism from the restaurant industry, but refused to step back from a bill that would grant early release…

Last month, UrbanTurf reported on the proposed first phase for one of the largest new developments on the boards for DC. Now, more details and images have emerged, and the community is offering its first reactions.

Attorney General Karl Racine announced Tuesday that D.C. gym chain Urban Athletic Club has agreed to follow the city’s emergency COVID-19 health and safety requirements. The announcement follows a lawsuit Racine’s office filed last week…

The D.C. Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to grant Mayor Muriel Bowser the authority to extend the city’s public health emergency to March 31.

Ben's Chili Bowl will open its eighth location in a new food court set to open at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

Do you hear what I hear? I hear the imperial American myth in the throes of its own death rattle. And I hear a people clamoring for a story by which to order their lives.

It’s quiet at the Takoma Park Aquatic Center in Northwest as Mark Bucher fills a sliding-glass-door refrigerator with individually packaged meals of steak salads and pasta bolognese.

Many employers in the hospitality industry will soon be required to send job offers to workers they laid off during the pandemic as their jobs become available again, under legislation that passed a final vote in the D.C. Council today.

As District leaders prepare to shell out tens of millions of dollars on the 59th presidential inauguration, they are sounding alarm bells over the federal government’s failure to repay them for the costs of President Trump’s inauguration…

Call it 2020’s most exciting goose chase: A rare bird that typically nests on Arctic coasts has veered off its migration path and landed in Washington, gripping the local birding community. The barnacle goose – which has never before been…

Though it will certainly be different than usual, this holiday season is expected to be cheerful in Congress Heights. A float featuring go-go bands and Santa Claus will belt out holiday tunes while passing out goodies and businesses will…

In the first year of public campaign financing in the District, Washingtonians made enough small-dollar donations to generate $3.4 million in taxpayer funding — fueling campaigns for several well-known politicians and many newcomers.

Roy Dunlap told his family his plans as they sat down to a dinner of salmon, greens and white rice. “I’m going to take the vaccine tomorrow,” the director of environmental services at Howard University Hospital said.

President-elect Joe Biden’s inaugural committee is urging the public not to travel to D.C. for the Jan. 20 ceremony amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and instead participate from home.

D.C. Public Schools is deliberating new names for Woodrow Wilson High School. The criteria set forth by DCPS state that any individual under consideration must have made a significant contribution to society. The new name also should…