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WASHINGTON — For years, D.C. police had trouble keeping officers. Now, the department is operating nearly at full force, and the city is starting a new program asking residents to weigh in on how…

An internal audit conducted by D.C.'s Department of Human Services shows that Life Deeds Inc., the social services provider responsible for managing the daily operations of a 35-unit homeless shelter…

The set of 97 steps between M Street NW and Prospect Street in Georgetown—better known as the Exorcist Steps—is now a historical landmark. But don’t queue up the 1973 movie in celebration yet: We…

Liz Koenig has been working in D.C. charter schools for seven years, and at the same charter for the last five. She used to be a lawyer. “My first-year salary as a teaching assistant was less than my…

When Bernard Demczuk does diversity and cultural awareness training with police, he gives a history lesson. Call it: Why black people distrust police.

The Federal Transit Administration has warned Metro it could face financial hardship if it yields to pressure from the District by restoring late-night service, saying doing so would risk safety by…

As children, many of us were encouraged to learn how to take turns. For some, sharing toys, emotions and common spaces with those around us was an early lesson in societal values. But Compersia, an…

For years, Philip Sambol has wrestled with the question of how, exactly, to open a community-focused, locally-owned, non-profit grocery store in neighborhoods historically overlooked by traditional…

The Historic Preservation Review Board approved the nomination of the site last week

WASHINGTON — Metro wants to extend its reduced rail service hours for at least another year, but Mayor Muriel Bowser and members of the D.C. Council weren’t shy to let Metro know they’re unhappy the…

Amid a violent January in which 18 people have been killed in the District, city leaders on Tuesday pressed for additional resources for crime prevention, including a new effort to help find jobs for…

WASHINGTON — As the deadly start to the year in D.C. continues, the police say there aren’t any more shootings than the last few years, but that the circumstances around them are harder to survive.

It’s not just your block that looks like it’s been hit by asteroids: the number of requests for pothole repairs in the District is double what it usually is this time of year.

A former D.C. police officer was convicted in federal court Tuesday on charges he solicited two underage teenage girls online and then paid them for sex, according to court records.

A neighborhood-level elected official in Ward 8 was arrested last Friday for threatening to kill the mother of his child and a fellow commission member in two separate incidents.

In 2016, the D.C. Council unanimously passed a law that reformed the city’s legal standard for who is at fault in crashes involving a car and a pedestrian or cyclist. Under the previous standard,…

Mayor Muriel Bowser presented a series of violence-reduction strategies on Tuesday during a monthly breakfast with the D.C. Council, announcing continuing efforts to get illegal guns off the streets…

Marketing technology firm SocialCode inked a deal for new space at Metropolitan Square as the building's landlord seeks to battle back from a pair of big law firm losses.