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Geldart is charged with assault and battery after allegedly getting into a fight outside a Ballston gym. He’s currently on leave.

Chris Geldart, D.C.’s deputy mayor for public safety and justice, is under investigation for allegedly assaulting a man in an Arlington, Virginia, parking lot on Saturday.

Chris Geldart, D.C.’s Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice, is on leave from his job as the city looks into an incident in which he allegedly assaulted someone in Arlington on Saturday…

The U.S. Interior Department announced a new policy this week that will require all law enforcement agencies within the department — including the U.S. Park Police — to wear body cameras.

Election Day is just over a month away, and the talk of the town for D.C. political insiders revolves around Kenyan McDuffie's uncertain future.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday voted 12-1 to pass a bill that prohibits drivers from making a right turn on red at most intersections.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday took the first of two votes to allow the District’s noncitizen residents to cast ballots in local elections, coming close to concluding an almost decade-long effort by…

The D.C. Council on Tuesday gave initial approval to a pair of bills that will reshape the city’s election system, largely by expanding how people vote and who can vote.

The change follows a steep drop in fare evasion tickets and arrests in recent years, with 15,000 in 2017 falling to fewer than 300 last year

For a dozen years, internal and external audits of the Washington subway’s communications systems — the basic tools that enable transit workers to talk with each other and the public — have…

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is cracking down on people who skip paying fares at the turnstiles and gates.

The ancient Greeks referred to planets as “wandering stars” for the peripatetic way the celestial bodies moved across the night sky. That’s just the sort of factoid you might learn on a TV show that,…

January 6 defendants being held at the D.C. Jail say that if conditions at the facility don’t improve, they’d rather be transferred to Guantanamo Bay, where they think they’d at least get better…

Metro is rolling out a multi-faceted plan to address a $40 million fare evasion problem.

D.C. voters, make sure to check your mail.

COVID-19 cases in D.C.’s public schools remain low a month into the academic year — although the data available is much less detailed than last year and it’s harder to make comparisons.

The city is letting foreclosures move ahead after a key moratorium expired, which looks likely to affect Black homeowners.

The city has yet to reach about half of those on its “People of Promise” list, and a top official graded the program as a C-plus.

The District is so heavily Democratic, general elections can seem like an afterthought. Not so this year. On the ballot Nov. 8 are spirited contests for seats on the D.C. Council and the State Board…

Over the summer, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser convened a group of local advocates and city officials and tasked them with an ambitious directive: to come up with suggestions to increase the number of…