WASHINGTON—District of Columbia officials are pressing the Pentagon to pay some respect to the D.C. flag and fly it whenever flags of the states are displayed. The request grows out of a ...

Mayor Vincent Gray says an upside-down District of Columbia flag printed on the cover of the city’s voter guide was a “complete fiasco” and tests his confidence in the elections board.

Big Number. $500,000. A report on the statehood bill authored by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), estimated the cost to the federal government of changing the U.S. flag and other printed materials ...

But, while most people would be carrying an American flag, “I will be waving a District of Columbia flag” to symbolize Washingtonians’ struggle for full voting rights, she said.

This small flag of the District of Columbia is part of a set of three small flags carried aboard the Apollo 11 flight by Michael Collins in his Personal Preference Kit, so named because all astronauts ...