Opinion

The average person arrested for homicide has been arrested 11 times previously, said D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III during a March news conference on D.C. crime with Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D). Contee’s widely publicized statement…

D.C. is home to more than a half-million people living above the poverty line who still struggle to afford basics, analysis finds

D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III announced this week that he will leave his post on June 3, after just two years in the top job, to become an assistant director at the FBI. It’s a blow to the community that in part follows his…

Jose Chaj looks unhappy when told that his preferred bus may not show up anymore. “That’s not good,” the 52-year-old laborer said. He frequently rides the red D.C. Circulator bus between Columbia Heights and downtown — and he’ll often let…

The product the 19-year-old created uses technology to let adults know when a child moves a stored gun

I was driving through a neighborhood in Southeast Washington where a 12-year-old girl was shot and wounded on Friday night. A few blocks away, seven adults had also been shot that night. But you’d never know it from the look of things.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s proposed fiscal 2024 budget includes plans for federal payments by Congress to support specific D.C. government agencies and programs, including the Court of Appeals, Superior Court and various court-related…

Students and advocates have expressed concern while pleading with lawmakers to invest more, despite budget cuts, toward mental health services in schools

Last week, the Biden administration introduced new measures to scale back remote work at federal agencies, a long-overdue step that will hopefully help restore public transparency, a more efficient functioning of government and the…

“So much of this was exactly what our family experienced,” I explained to my exhausted son, after picking him up from another 10-hour rehearsal last week.

Many cities yanked officers out of schools while reassessing policing after George Floyd’s 2020 murder. However well-intentioned, the experiment has left kids more vulnerable and classrooms less safe amid surging youth violence. That’s why…

Nate Morris III wrote a book on fatherhood that also tells the story of a life transformed

In an effort to politicize D.C.'s challenges like his counterparts in Congress, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares accidentally made a salient point

A brain scientist vows to fight to keep Optimus Prime and Bumblebee outside his home after a board says they have to go

The District’s 59 homicides in 2023 as of Friday represent a 31 percent increase over the same period last year, according to the D.C police.

As of Good Friday, the day that Christians commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus and his death on the cross at Calvary, the District had recorded nearly 60 homicides since the year began.

A vendor’s teenage daughter was hurt during an encounter with police. On Tuesday, she watched the D.C. Council vote to decriminalize street vending.

A middle school teacher says Alabama lawmaker Gary Palmer owes her students an apology. She is right.

If to be forewarned is to be forearmed, then the country, and D.C., should be on notice about what lies ahead unless steps are taken now to deal with potential dangers.

An exhibit launching now draws the line from women born into slavery all the way to Vice President Harris. And that line runs straight through D.C.