Link

A former executive of D.C.'s sports gambling operator tried to blow up the city's $215 million contract and sideline the firm overseeing its troubled app.

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) joined the side of Delta Airlines in supporting expanding long-haul flights out of Reagan National Airport.

The D.C. Council voted Tuesday to keep duties of the city’s embattled crime lab independent of the D.C. police, rejecting Mayor Muriel Bowser’s budget proposal that would’ve transferred the lab’s crime scene sciences division to the…

The days of cars blocking bus-only lanes may soon be coming to an end.

The DC Council voted unanimously this afternoon to approve an amended version of the Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Support Act after opting to maintain an exemption from the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act for any new office-to-residential…

City leaders marked progress Monday in the multimillion-dollar transformation of a former sand filtration facility in Northwest Washington that has been the subject of multiple lawsuits and protests into a hub of community amenities and…

Two years after a messy fight over how the city gives grants to arts groups, some commissioners fear the new budget would move things backward.

For years the McMillan Sand Filtration Site along North Capitol Street NW was fenced off and largely inaccessible. Large concrete silos punctuated a grassy expanse whose plans for redevelopment were mired in legal and political squabbling.…

The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH) is once again butting heads with D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson over arts funding. With the council’s final vote on amendments to the 2024 D.C. budget taking place on Tuesday, the…

After a months-long emergency closure, the Wilson Aquatic Center in Tenleytown — one of D.C.’s largest public pools — reopened on Monday, June 12.

D.C. regulators say Intralot isn’t meeting the terms of its deal to run the city’s sports wagering system. The company blames a politically connected subcontractor.

As construction proceeds on the long-controversial redevelopment of the shuttered McMillan Sand Filtration Plant site, Mayor Muriel Bowser and city leaders today held a "beam signing" ceremony to highlight progress on a community center,…

Education requirements for D.C.’s early childhood caregivers introduced in 2016 are set to begin this year. But within the already strained workforce, some educators are still holding out.

The D.C. Public Library’s archival work is preserving more than a century of the city’s history, and City Paper’s as well.

Two climate advocates were arrested Friday after chaining themselves to the Wilson Building during a protest demanding that D.C. council members reject a plan to replace pipelines in the city.

A new bill from D.C. Councilmember Brooke Pinto aims to close a loophole in the District’s fare evasion law. Metro says the law, as it is now, ties its hands in catching people with warrants, weapons, and those who break the law on trains…

On a week when heavy smoke from Canadian wildfires forced many people to take precautions they’re not used to, an animal so associated with wildfire prevention they’re known as Smokey made a visit of its own — forcing people to take…

She had a favorite spot on U Street back in the ’50s when it was still called Black Broadway: Bohemian Caverns, the basement jazz club beneath a Black-owned pharmacy that had been decked out to feel like you were entering a cave. Virginia…

A new bill introduced by Ward 2 DC Council member Brooke Pinto seeks to enable civil enforcement against fare evasion in the District by closing what's been described as a loophole in the current law.

Maurice Edington, a chemist, comes to the D.C. institution from Florida A&M University