Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) says he will likely vote with Republicans to block a D.C. bill that overhauls the city’s criminal code, significantly raising the prospect that Congress could overturn a local city measure for the first!-->…
West Virginia's Joe Manchin is the first Democratic senator to express public support for the GOP-led effort to overturn the DC Council's Revised Criminal Code Act.
Five people were killed in three separate shootings in D.C. this weekend, including one which occurred near Audi Field during a soccer match, sending the city’s homicide count soaring to 40 percent above where it stood at the same time!-->…
Emergency responders in D.C. have been busy in recent years — whether it’s at the city or federal level. Now, the next time things hit the fan, District and federal officials have an improved space to coordinate a response.
Earlier this month, prime time Fox News polemicist (and former D.C. resident) Tucker Carlson darkly told his audience of millions what he sees as an existential threat to the country.
Local and federal officials cut the ribbon this morning on a new DC Emergency Operations Center, which features more space for convening government decision-makers and private-sector partners when responding to large-scale emergencies.
Metro will reduce its late weeknight service on four lines over the next three weeks to complete some needed maintenance, the transit system said Friday.
About 200 LGBTQ advocates, allies and others lined the street outside Crazy Aunt Helen’s, a Capitol Hill restaurant, to protect the Drag Storytime event happening inside
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has petitioned Senate leaders to oppose a congressional effort to overturn a pair of D.C. bills as the city braces for Congress to potentially vote to undo local legislation for the first time in a generation.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is calling on the U.S. Senate not to vote for a resolution — already approved by the House — that would prevent the District from implementing a new criminal code that includes lighter mandatory penalties for some!-->…
There is nothing new about reports of waste, inefficiency and poor living conditions in public housing and related federal low-income housing assistance programs. Hardly any housing authority in the country has been free of such issues.!-->…
Presidents’ Day weekend was no holiday for D.C. crime — and certainly no timeout for juvenile offenders. A fuller accounting of how both are handled by the city’s juvenile justice system is overdue.
It’s been just under five months since the District’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs broke up into two smaller agencies — and reviews of the change, at least so far, are mixed.