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Public health experts are still cautious, but they say this could be the beginning of the end.

Foreign hackers on Thursday made public what they say is the 250 gigabytes of internal files and data they stole from Metropolitan Police Department computers last month. The move comes after what hackers said were failed ransom…

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is calling on Mayor Muriel Bowser to take “immediate action” to change the leadership at the troubled D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences — the city’s crime lab — where issues with handling evidence have…

Department of Corrections Director Quincy Booth says he hasn’t heard concerns about solitary “safe cells” at the DC Jail. Critics have been raising the issue for years.

D.C. Public Schools said it plans to welcome all students back for five-day a week in-person learning when the 2021-2022 school year begins on Aug. 30.

The pandemic exposed fault lines and places of possibility. Here’s what we might keep from this radical period of change.

The program from Rhizome DC and Guilded: A Freelancers Cooperative repurposes the community supported agriculture model for local artists and art lovers.

Employers of health care workers and first responders continue to encourage, not require, more workers to get the shot.

D.C. entertainment venues can return to full capacity on June 11, but if you need something to tide you over until then, check out the newest virtual events by the Washington Improv Theater.

The deliberations over the long-shot bill center on three Electoral College votes the Constitution gives to the seat of government.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is calling for a change in leadership at the troubled Department of Forensic Sciences.

Darrell Moore was 16 when he and a gang of young robbers barged into a Northeast Washington apartment in 1994 and terrorized a group of women and children, fatally shooting a teenage girl as she knelt in prayer and wounding her mother and…

Ward 4 campaign sign confiscation kerfuffle comes to a dead end

Within days of the D.C. crime lab having its accreditation to perform forensic testing suspended last month amid an ongoing investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says it stepped into action, hauling a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Famed actor Phylicia Rashad is returning to her alma mater as the new dean of the Howard University College of Fine Arts.

With traffic deaths happening at the fastest pace in recent years, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday that she’s dedicating $10 million to add speed cameras across D.C. and make changes at dangerous intersections.

The actress behind Clair Huxtable is returning to her alma mater, as a dean.

United Medical Center, the District-owned Ward 8 hospital that has limped by for years with city support, could soon see cuts under a new control board — because this time, it can’t go back to lawmakers for more funding.

A D.C. Council hearing kicked off Wednesday morning on an intense note. At-Large Councilmember Elissa Silverman said, “I am simply done with excuses. I’m done with it.”

The D.C. region’s Point in Time count conducted in January reveals a 15% decline in homelessness since last year’s count, according to a briefing for area leaders on Wednesday.