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D.C.’s busiest aquatic center remained shuttered for emergency repairs Friday after inspectors discovered a number of problems with the facility earlier in the week and immediately closed it, city officials said.

A now-former D.C. Housing Authority police officer believes she was fired for reporting a locker room fight to MPD.

Former staffers offer an inside look at Marshall’s campaign, which generated plenty of headlines but didn’t gain much traction.

If you’ve ever seen people lugging buckets of food scraps to dump at D.C.’s compost drop-off sites, you know there is a pent-up desire among District residents to recycle their food waste. Last year, 128,000 people used the 10 drop-off…

A little over a year after it began, D.C. is ending its free COVID testing distribution at local libraries, according to DC Health.

A new discrimination suit against the HSEMA director echoes a previous complaint about his alleged treatment of older Black employees.

The Keystone Kops were a 1910s silent-screen police force that made up in zeal what it lacked in competence. D.C. government leaders bring them to mind in their response to issues ranging from homeless encampments, to D.C. Housing…

The Wilson Aquatic Center remains closed for emergency repairs days after DC Health inspectors found multiple regulatory violations, and officials haven't provided a timetable for when the popular indoor pool in Ward 3's Tenleytown…

The Park Service shut down the encampment, the largest in the nation’s capital, on Wednesday morning

Senate Republicans are mounting a full offensive against a bill passed by the D.C. Council overhauling the city’s criminal code, pushing to follow the Republican-led House of Representatives’ move last week to block the bill from taking…

Paying above-market rents means fewer people are helped by the troubled housing authority

WASHINGTON (AP) — National Park Service employees on Wednesday swept through a large homeless encampment three blocks from the White House, tearing down dozens of tents and warning that people who resisted would be subject to arrest.

The National Park Service cleared a D.C. park just a block from the White House, where dozens of people had been living in tents in the small green space.

The Tennessee senator who is leading efforts to block the Revised Criminal Code Act enacted by the DC Council says he now has the support of all 48 of his fellow Republicans in the Senate — setting up a scenario where just two Democrats…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced plans Wednesday to increase per-student funding by about $500 in her proposed budget, detailing a $2.3 billion investment into the city’s more than 100,000 students in public and public charter schools.

St. Elizabeths Hospital patients settled a lawsuit with the District-owned psychiatric hospital and the city over allegations that the facility failed to provide needed care during an extended water outage in 2019 and the coronavirus…

Four patients at D.C.’s St. Elizabeth’s psychiatric hospital who lived without water for 28 days and filed suit over the conditions have reached a settlement with the city.

After two weeks of intense outreach and citywide hand-wringing over the future of the homeless campers at McPherson Square, the National Park Service evicted dozens of people from their downtown tents Wednesday morning and arrested two men…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Wednesday that she’s proposing a 5.05% increase in the amount of money allocated for each student in the city’s public and charter schools, amounting to an additional $144 million in funding.

Congressional Republicans are pressing ahead with a legislative effort to prevent D.C. from implementing a new criminal code that would lighten maximum sentences for burglary, carjacking and robbery.