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Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that Chris Geldart, the city’s Deputy Mayor of Public Safety and Justice, has resigned amid assault charges and questions about his residency status.

Candidates for the two at-large seats on the D.C. Council are raising and spending thousands of dollars as Election Day nears, while criticizing each other for how they’re amassing that cash in the increasingly heated race.

D.C.’s embattled deputy mayor for public safety and justice — facing scrutiny over an allegation of assault and battery and questions about his residency in Virginia — is stepping down.

Metro’s annual performance report says rail reliability and customer satisfaction was high during the first quarter of the fiscal year, but dropped dramatically after that.

Mayor Muriel Bowser announces that she accepted his resignation

You may think that history is what happened long ago, but Laura Brower Hagood wants you to think about history differently. She also wants you to enjoy a free beer and a discount taco.

More than a month after the start of the school year, D.C. is attempting to enforce a long-standing childhood vaccine mandate – but concerns over incomplete and messy data are hindering enforcement and causing local officials to question…

D.C. residents are now starting to get their mail ballots, and as they do, they’ll notice the usual races on the front side — mayor, attorney general, a few seats on the D.C. Council, and so on. But flip the ballot over and they will be…

The newcomers face an uphill battle to win one of the top two spots against three incumbents. But what are they promising if they succeed?

Meet Amerigroup. It’s a Fortune 500 company that manages state-run health plans for low-income people. Its subsidiaries also have a history of fines and allegations over the handling of patients in multiple states. Amerigroup is now set to…

Twenty-four D.C. Public School families refused to comply with the city’s requirement that pre-K through fifth grade students be up to date on routine shots by Tuesday, according to data shared with city officials during a public…

D.C.’s three monkeypox clinics will be merging with the COVID Centers in wards 2, 3, and 8 starting Saturday. Services will remain the same — the monkeypox clinics will continue to be walk-in and offer first and second doses.

It was Oct. 11, 1972. The crumbling D.C. Jail was about 100 years old. The facility, designed to hold 550 people, was holding a population of about double that size. People detained there complained that they had virtually no recreation…

The first time I — and, by extension, much of America — heard of Mike Fanone was about a week after the Jan. 6 insurrection. Fanone, then a D.C. police officer, had been brought to a building overlooking the U.S. Capitol to speak to…

A quarter of the city’s school-age population is still behind on required shots

In D.C., where disenfranchisement is personal, they soon will

A new partnership between D.C. and the XQ Institute — a nonprofit co-founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs — aims to reimagine what high school in the District looks like.

It is clearly too soon to tell whether Metro’s new general manager, Randy Clarke, will be successful in getting the troubled agency back on track. He has been on the job less than three months, and the challenges facing Metro are…

A scathing federal audit of the D.C. Housing Authority found that the agency is failing in some of its most basic tasks, from maintaining public housing units in habitable condition to ensuring that every usable unit is actually offered to…

On a chilly October Saturday, Norma Lomax came to the Congressional Cemetery in Southeast Washington to say goodbye to her brother. She wore a pin emblazoned with his name, Alan J. Barnes, and an image of him superimposed on a cross…