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The persistent influence of prosecutors has many observers wondering if the Department of Forensic Sciences can be fixed.

On the east side of Rock Creek Park, nestled between Beach Drive and 16th Street NW, lies a swath of recreational heaven with outdoor jungle gyms and picnic areas. There’s a hardcourt tennis stadium,…

Disenfranchising a city of more than 700,000 people, it turns out, requires a lot of work, if the contretemps between the D.C. municipal court system and the U.S. Senate is any indication.

A new report from the D.C. Auditor says internal oversight practices at the troubled D.C. crime lab were broken and ineffective long before the lab lost its accreditation last year.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) and top public safety officials on Friday offered a public show of support for Karima Holmes — her choice to lead the District’s oft-scrutinized 911 call center —…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Friday stridently defended her nominee to head D.C.’s troubled 911 agency, Karima Holmes.

The District government is reissuing its request for proposals to redevelop the Reeves Center — what’s been a long-delayed process for one of the city’s most prominent sites — but this time without a…

Some DCHA commissioners will host an unofficial meeting with Empower DC ahead of a D.C. Council vote on a bill that would reconfigure the board.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser gathered the top chiefs from the city’s public safety agencies to talk about plans to make holiday shoppers feel safer in commercial districts.

The D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences has failed to operate as an independent part of the justice system, a report from the Office of the D.C. Auditor has found.

A reader, Leroy Swain, took me to task for stating in last week’s column on juvenile crime that I didn’t want to start a “blaming and shaming game about unstable families in our community.”

Mayor Muriel Bowser is proposing a new DCHA board that would eliminate critics.

On a quiet, tree-lined street near D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood, one house looks just like all the others. Plants and garden figurines cover the front yard, with concrete steps that lead up to…

The D.C. Council is set to vote on a proposal making all Metrobus service in the District free starting next Summer.

D.C.'s streets and office buildings are fuller now than they were for most of 2020, but foot traffic and the economic activity that comes with it remain far below pre-pandemic levels.

Mayor Muriel Bowser is proposing a new DCHA board that would eliminate critics.

The legislation could give Mayor Muriel E. Bowser more control over governance of the embattled agency as its leaders work to comply with federal standards

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson have introduced emergency legislation that would dissolve the D.C. Housing Authority’s current 13-member Board of Commissioners and…

The city of Washington, D.C., is roaring.

Everyone seems to agree: more solar energy is a good thing. But a bill to require more solar in the District is dividing environmental advocates. Some say it’s needed to keep the local solar industry…