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It could be early 2022 before the embattled D.C. crime lab regains its full accreditation to perform forensic testing, the lab’s interim director told a panel of science advisers last week.

For David Boyd, a $10,000 grant from a newly created, national Black Restaurant Accelerator couldn't have come at a better time.

The interim director of D.C.’s 911 system has ordered mandatory overtime amid concerns that not enough call-takers are on-hand to deal with emergency calls.

With school districts around the country increasingly adding virtual learning for the fall, three D.C. charter networks are seeking approval for their own all-virtual options, citing parent demand amid pandemic safety concerns.

Washington Nationals ownership and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser denounced a Saturday shooting outside Nationals Park that left three people with injuries that were not life threatening.

Take a walk down the streets of D.C. today, and you’ll quickly notice that neighborhoods have changed. Well over a year into the pandemic, and many small businesses are still struggling to survive.

D.C. parents are suing city officials over a new law that allows children 11 and older to acquire vaccines without permission from parents.

D.C. police are still looking for the shooter who opened fire and killed a six-year-old girl Friday night. The tragedy left a city brimming with anger all weekend, and it happened on the three-year anniversary of a 10-year-old being gunned…

In late May, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced she was bringing in a forensic consulting firm to perform an independent review of the city’s troubled crime lab, which had just seen its accreditation stripped and is the subject of a…

Hilton Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: HLT) has struck a deal to bring its Curio Collection to the Central Armature Works project in NoMa, where another luxury hotel had been planned for 2.4-acre Metro-adjacent site.

As the terrified fans and ballplayers scrambling for cover at Nationals Park on Saturday evening discovered, the District’s gun violence, quaintly called a “public health crisis” by Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) and D.C. Council judiciary…

A D.C. Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner for the area surrounding Nationals Park experienced the chaos of the shooting himself, and said Sunday that something has to be done to address gun violence in the District.

Spurred by an anonymous open letter, instructors are reigniting calls for change.

Two lawsuits filed in D.C. federal court this month challenged a city law passed last year that allows minors to be vaccinated without their parents’ knowledge, saying the legislation violates religious liberty.

Saturday night’s game between the Washington Nationals and San Diego Padres was suspended after multiple gunshots were fired outside Nationals Park in a chaotic scene that ended with fans on the field and in the dugouts. The shooting…

D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee, flanked by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser at a Saturday afternoon news conference, asked for the public’s help to identify a silver sedan used in a Friday night drive-by shooting that left six-year-old Nyiah…

She liked to mimic her grandmother, so a week ago, Nyiah Courtney got her hair braided.

A 6-year-old girl was killed in a D.C. shooting that also injured five adults Friday night, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Collective Action for Safe Spaces and Harriet's Wildest Dreams accuse bar of seeking to evade accountability and protect its bottom line.

Nellie’s issued an apology Friday to the 22-year-old Black woman who was seen in a viral video being dragged down the stairs of the sports bar by security in June.