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D.C. lawmakers on Thursday advanced measures to cut $15 million from the police department budget, a change that defund-the-police activists dismissed as insufficient and the police chief warned could result in the loss of hundreds of…

A host of local and federal leaders gathered on Thursday to praise the D.C. statehood bill, which is expected to pass the House on Friday for the first time ever, and to throw elbows at the bill’s critics.

A statue of President Abraham Lincoln standing over a freed slave in D.C. is under renewed scrutiny, with protesters announcing their intention to tear down the monument Thursday.

Leaders of the yellow church that has been at the center of the District’s Black Lives Matter demonstrations say they are concerned about how police cleared protesters from the area earlier this week — and upset that the city built a fence…

The D.C. Council’s judiciary committee unanimously voted Thursday to approve a $15 million reduction to the Metropolitan Police Department’s proposed budget for next year and to require the current police chief to undergo a review every…

The Smithsonian Institution has paid nearly $253.7 million for the majority of a two-building Southwest D.C. office campus to serve as its consolidated headquarters after getting the green light from Congress late last year to move forward…

In April, millions of Americans began receiving economic stimulus checks to help them weather the financial crisis caused by the coronavirus. But some 12 million who are eligible — including as many as 46,000 D.C. residents — may be left…

The toppling of statues may have reached its tipping point.

As of January, thousands of District residents who are incarcerated in federal prisons on felony convictions would have their rights to vote restored under legislation the D.C. Council is slated to adopt this summer. Currently,…

The D.C. attorney general sued four of the world’s largest oil and gas companies Thursday, asserting that they have engaged in a multimillion-dollar campaign over decades to deceive District consumers about the effects of fossil fuels on…

Franklin Park, located at 14th Street and K St NW, will close for a year on July 1 and undergo an ambitious renovation.

MIDWAY THROUGH construction of the Washington Nationals’ ballpark, Allen Y. Lew, who oversaw the project as head of the city’s sports and entertainment commission, took the media on a tour. Veteran reporter Tom Sherwood remembers him…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser urged residents and visitors to the nation’s capital to stay home this Independence Day during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Feel free to enjoy the fireworks on the Fourth of July, but plan on watching from home in small groups only, Mayor Muriel Bowser urged residents today. She expressed concern about the coronavirus circulating in the general population, and…

While DC has earned a reputation for being tenant-friendly, and large property owners enjoy membership in influential organizations, a new group wants to look out for the little guy.

The 28th annual The 28th annual RAMMY Awards, the Oscars for local restaurant owners and chefs, has been rescheduled for Sept. 20 — and it will be different.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is suing fossil fuel companies Exxon Mobil, BP, Chevron and Shell “for systematically and intentionally misleading District consumers about the role their products play in causing climate change,” his…

On June 5, as mass protests demanding racial justice continued in the D.C. area, the Joy of Motion Dance Center, a local arts nonprofit that serves thousands of students, posted a Black Lives Matter logo on its Instagram page.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser raised concerns Thursday about the continuing spread of the coronavirus, and discouraged large gatherings for the upcoming July 4 holiday.

Calls are intensifying for the removal of twin Emancipation memorials in Washington, D.C., and Boston that depict a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln’s feet — optics that jar and offend many in a nation confronting racial injustice…