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The nation’s capital is at a critical juncture: Crime is up. Homelessness is up. Housing affordability has worsened. Downtown is comatose as office workers often stay home. Plus, deep inequalities remain, especially between largely White…

D.C. has banked its comeback plan on luring more residents to its struggling downtown. The number of increasingly obsolete office properties with the potential to be converted to apartments or condos should provide ample opportunity.

A new health and wellness “destination,” including a spa, water park and restaurants could be coming to D.C.

D.C. is famous for its parks: some of them, like the grassy, manicured National Mall, draw tourists from around the globe. In fact, the District has been ranked number 1 for urban parks in the U.S. by the Trust For Public Land for three…

The U.S. Senate could vote as early as next week to block a D.C. police discipline and accountability bill approved by the city’s lawmakers last year, potentially putting Democratic senators in a difficult situation on a politically…

Republican Sen. J.D. Vance (Ohio) introduced a resolution to block D.C.’s major police accountability legislation Thursday and expects to bring it to a vote next week — even though the congressional review period for the D.C. legislation…

D.C. pledged in 2021 to find out if forensics errors resulted in faulty convictions, but it still has yet to launch this costly effort.

DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has asked the U.S. Botanic Garden to exhibit marijuana to complement its recent display of hemp for the first time.

D.C. Public Schools unlawfully awarded 36 contracts worth an estimated $270 million over the last three years, raising significant concerns around its financial management and forcing the D.C. Council to start retroactively approving the…

The top prosecutor in D.C. says the continued fallout from the District’s shuttered crime lab means his office has been unable to bring charges against suspected offenders in some cases.

Stopping the scheduled sunset of a deed tax hike could generate $104 million for the Council’s priority programs.

Destination DC has released 2022 tourism numbers that show 20.7 million domestic tourists visited the city last year, which is 91% of pre-pandemic numbers in 2019. Those tourists also spent $8.1 billion last year, a more than 50% jump over…

Mayor Muriel Bowser is proposing an unprecedented cap on funding for the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH), leaving the local arts community concerned about the future of its funding model — despite a projected increase in…

D.C. officials on Thursday said that almost 21 million domestic tourists visited D.C. in 2022, a 10% increase over the year prior. And they unveiled what they say will eventually be a new destination to attract even more visitors: a…

A wellness company will work with D.C. officials to find a location for an affordable, resort-like spa with amenities such as a water park, indoor pool and sauna, officials said Thursday.

Some remediations will remain incomplete as the deadline passes

About 6.2 million traffic tickets totaling nearly $1.3 billion in fines and penalties have not been paid to the District since 2000, The Washington Post found in a recent analysis of city records. That includes hundreds of thousands of…

Over a year since busloads of migrants began arriving from Texas and Arizona, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s administration faces a costly predicament: housing and feeding those families at a time when city resources are strained, and an…

A global firm seeking to expand to the United States has reached a one-year agreement with the District to scope out sites for a new health and wellness resort that would likely combine thermal bathing, sauna treatments and more.

D.C. Council is considering legislation that would delay some portions of the timeline — but significantly shorten it overall — before employers will be responsible for paying the full minimum wage of their tipped workers, a concession to…