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We’ve seen the photos from the West Coast for years — orange, smoky skies, everywhere from San Diego to Seattle. Now it’s happening here in the eastern U.S. as well, and scientists say this is probably not a one-off: bad air days are…

Dr. Ayanna Bennett has been tapped to lead DC Health, Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office announced Thursday. She will replace Dr. Sharon Lewis, a DC Health veteran who had been leading the agency in an interim capacity following the departure of…

Ayanna Bennett, a pediatrician and health equity officer in San Francisco, will succeed LaQuandra Nesbitt, who resigned last July.

The unhealthy air quality in the District due to smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted modifications to DC government operations for the afternoon, the mayor's office announced.

The ACLU criticized the program, which would give cameras to delivery and ride-hailing service drivers, as a dangerous expansion of government surveillance

Three fatal shootings Tuesday night and early Wednesday in Southeast and Northeast Washington — including one of a 63-year-old woman — pushed D.C.’s homicide count to 102, the earliest point in the year the city has recorded 100 killings…

Delivery and rideshare drivers in D.C. will be eligible to get free dash cameras through a new government program, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Wednesday. The city will use a $500,000 donation from DoorDash to buy about 5,000 dash…

Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives vehemently disagreed on Wednesday over whether D.C.’s current elections are a model for the rest of the country — or if Congress should use the city as an example by imposing…

House Republicans examined D.C. election laws Wednesday in their latest hearing digging into the city’s affairs, an opportunity for them to advocate for stricter voting laws in the deep-blue city.

D.C.’s Wharf InterContinental Hotel has agreed to voluntarily recognize its employees’ union after cards are checked, which will include workers from the now-shuttered Moon Rabbit restaurant, according to their bargaining agent UNITE HERE…

The air quality in the D.C. region reached Code Red — or worse — on Wednesday morning, meaning it’s unhealthy for the general population to be outside, as smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to waft over the area.

The D.C. Council unanimously passed an emergency bill Tuesday capping many new rent increases at 6% starting July 1, bookmarking lawmakers’ frantic volley this spring to legislate around historic increases in rent prices.

The Bowser Administration commits to a transformative vision for redevelopment of 14th and U

Fifty-four-year-old Earnest Wilkerson didn’t foresee leading his neighbors through the sale of their apartment building when he moved into Minnesota Commons five years ago.

House Republicans scrutinized DC's election laws at a public hearing today, as Democrats on the two committees holding the joint session pushed back against claims that procedures such as widespread mail-in voting and same-day registration…

The Chesapeake Bay got a C in the latest annual Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card released Tuesday by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) – the same score it received in the 2021 report.

The D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles now says that it had been notified about three DUI convictions involving the woman who is now charged with a fatal crash on Rock Creek Parkway that killed three people, walking back past claims that it…

The D.C. Council voted Tuesday to cap rent hikes in rent-stabilized buildings after record-high inflation threatened historic rent increases.

In her decades working for the D.C. City Council and District government, Amy Mauro served as the prototypical staffer, who whispered in the ears of the people in power to ensure the right message was delivered before the taxpaying public.…

A week after a rancorous debate on the same subject, the DC Council voted unanimously this afternoon to reduce the allowable rent increases for residents of buildings that fall under the District's rent control laws, generally meaning they…