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As more of the D.C. region gets vaccinated, Metro’s board of directors is looking toward the future — and for a way to coax riders back to the system.

Returning D.C. residents, criminal justice experts, attorneys, and elected officials urged the D.C. Council on Thursday to move on legislation that would simplify the process of sealing criminal…

D.C. has pushed its timeline for offering COVID-19 vaccine appointments to all of-age residents up to April 12, according to the city’s health department. And some D.C. residents received a pleasant…

Since 2015, DC’s various housing agencies have built or preserved about 11,600 affordable housing units, according to the District’s data portal. But in Ward 3, where single-family zoning and…

“When seconds count, we don’t have minutes,” said the president of D.C. Firefighters Association Local 36.

How should prosecutors treat nonviolent misdemeanors? As a result of the covid-19 pandemic, proceedings in most nonviolent misdemeanor cases in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia…

From releasing internal investigations into uses of force to suspending the gun recovery unit.

The District had seen warning signs prior to 2-year-old Gabriel Eason’s death. But after suffering months of abuse at home, in April 2020 Gabriel died from what medical examiners determined was…

The Education Department has made an exception to its requirement that states administer annual exams this year and given the District’s public and charter schools permission to skip federally…

Congress had yet to even schedule a hearing on a measure granting statehood to the District of Columbia when a panel of state lawmakers in Arizona voted in February to take a stand against D.C’s plea…

The pharmacies get their supply of COVID-19 vaccines through the federal government, not the District.

D.C. leaders on Wednesday criticized the Metro Transit Police after a video on social media showed four officers holding a woman with a bloody lip facedown on a Metro platform.

I am a long-time resident of Southeast who is deeply concerned that the amended Comprehensive Plan pending before the D.C. Council will increase racial inequity under the guise of ending it.

The bigger sidewalks will allow more space for social distancing and outdoor dining.

Schools in D.C. will not administer standardized tests this academic year, marking the second consecutive year students will not have to sit through the high-stakes exams.

Thirteen-year-old Gabriel Molina recalls the day the police showed up at his soccer practice.

Metro’s general manager on Wednesday spoke about the effect of federal relief money on Metro’s budget, the changes at the troubled control center, what a post-pandemic system will look like and more.…

Georgetown University will launch a bachelor’s degree program for people incarcerated in Maryland’s state prisons, the school said Wednesday.

Starting off as an anti-war and peace movement in the 1970s, the Community for Creative Non-Violence (CCNV) transformed the rights of the homeless community across the country. Through grass-roots…

District residents, government officials, and health professionals gathered virtually last month for the D.C. Department of Health’s oversight budget hearings for fiscal year 2020 and the first half…