District of Columbia Government News

Recent studies say childhood obesity has reached an all time high and the District of Columbia Public Schools has one of the highest childhood obesity rates in the country.

A DC City Council committee voted 4-1 earlier today to support a bill that would allow gays and lesbians to marry in the District.

The State tree of District of Columbia is the Scarlet Oak . This tree is also known as Spanish oak and black oak.

Forty young adults from 17 communions, 15 states, the District of Columbia, the Philippines and Canada, have gathered here this week-end with an ambitious aim: to launch a nation-wide movement of young adults for Christ.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced Shawn W. Garvin as the new Region 3 administrator.

Rarely has a giant sweet potato, a muddy knee and a stubbornly rooted fennel plant caused such a stir.

Legislation passed by the Senate Wednesday would extend unemployment insurance benefits by 14 weeks for jobless people in all states who have exhausted their benefits.

Norton's Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission will take applications for the vacancy through Dec.

On Tuesday, Norton introduced a bill in Congress that would allow D.C. residents to elect their own district attorney.

Nation's Capital Adopts Web-based Solution for Planning Efficient Infrastructure Work November 03, 2009 -- Envista Corporation, a provider of web-based software for infrastructure project coordination, today announced the District of Columbia is deploying Envista's map-driven application.

Millicent Williams has been selected to serve as Director of the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency .

Washington D.C., Nov 1, 2009 / 03:10 am .- A Washington, D.C. City Council proposal to recognize same-sex 'marriage' would redefine marriage and could force Catholic educational and charitable institutions to close or face lawsuits, burdensome regulation and the compromising of their faith, the Archdiocese of Washington has warned.

Arkansasa lottery plunged into selling tickets to the Powerball multimillion-dollar jackpot Saturday night, joining 30 other states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

This item is a list of 35,000 employees of the District of Columbia at the end of December 2008, listing the name, job title, hire date, and salary of each.

Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad will die by lethal injection when he is executed next month.

Cupboards at a soup kitchen near the White House will be spilling over for several days after a donation of fresh produce harvested Thursday from first lady Michelle Obama's vegetable garden.

By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON - The Washington Archdiocese said in written testimony Oct.

Andrew Warren, a CIA officer who has previously served in Afghanistan and Egypt, is assigned to the US embassy in Algeria.

Seven months after passage of the "stimulus" plan, 49 out of 50 states have lost jobs.

Robert J. Cabelly, 61, of Washington, D.C., has been indicted in the District of Columbia in an eight-count indictment charging him with conspiracy to violate the Sudanese sanctions regulations and to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign power, four counts of violating the Sudanese sanctions regulations, as well as one count apiece of money ...