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People incarcerated in D.C. and their advocates filed a federal lawsuit against the District this week, alleging that the city’s Department of Corrections does not provide prisoners the medical care…

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…

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…

The D.C. Council’s transportation committee wants to buy a condemned and dilapidated relic of D.C.’s street car network — Georgetown’s trolley trestle bridge — and turn it into a multi-use trail.…

A wooded area behind a row of single-family homes in Ward 7’s Deanwood neighborhood provided ample shade to a 13- to 15-person tent community for over a year. But earlier this month, D.C.’s Office of…

Mental health diagnoses in D.C. during the pandemic were up 15% above the baseline, per a new Georgetown University report for the D.C. Auditor's Office.

Police Chief Robert Contee will undertake one last major initiative before leaving for a new post at the FBI: getting cops out of their cars and walking in their communities.

The D.C. council is moving to increase funding for climate and environmental programs, after Mayor Muriel Bowser proposed a 14% cut in her budget for the upcoming 2024 fiscal year. The council is…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Thursday she will conduct a nationwide search to find the city’s next police chief, seeking to fill what officials say will be a massive void that is left…

One day after D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee announced he’d be moving on to a new job at the FBI, he also unveiled a new community policing initiative aimed at reducing crime through deeper…

Medical residents and fellows at George Washington University voted to unionize Thursday, joining a growing list of employees organizing in residency programs across the U.S.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser launched a national search to find a replacement for departing Police Chief Robert J. Contee III, with hopes of having someone in place by the time he leaves the post in…

Speaking frankly and in personal terms, D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee addressed the public Thursday, explaining his decision to step down from the police department after more than 30 years on the…

Protesters smeared black and red paint on the case and pedestal of Edgar Degas’s “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” sculpture at the National Gallery of Art in D.C. on Thursday to bring attention to the…

The sudden announcement of Contee’s departure has officials and critics wondering what’s next for the department.

The D.C. Council’s transportation committee is set to make a transit tradeoff in the budget — free bus fares for the entire city while pausing the long-planned K Street Transitway downtown to pay for…

Efforts to tinker with decades-old rules that limit long-distance flying at DCA have been met with outcry from lawmakers in the Washington region

Melissa Chapman was recently awarded sole custody of her children — but only after a years-long legal battle. Her ex — who she says had a history of domestic violence against her, leading to a civil…

Reagan National Airport has few nonstop flights to the West Coast due to federal limits. Now, Delta Air Lines is part of a new coalition lobbying to allow airlines to make farther nonstop trips.

D.C. police chief Robert Contee is retiring from the force and is accepting a role with the FBI, sources tell WTOP.