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Amid rising concern about violent crime in DC, the founding director of the District's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement — which runs the mayor's violence interruption program — has resigned.

A regulator says Metro continues to struggle with communication and coordination among various agencies

Studio Theatre has won 72 Helen Hayes Awards since it first opened back in 1978.

Eric Ellsworth recently moved back to D.C. from Massachusetts, bringing his family’s 2020 plug-in hybrid-electric minivan to his new rowhouse on Capitol Hill.

Metro can’t even get hacked right.

The University of the District Columbia said it received a $200,000 donation Saturday from businessman Ted Leonsis’s charitable foundation and professional sports ownership group as the school kicked off a sports-related fundraising drive.…

More people died at the hands of D.C. police officers in 2021 than in 2020, and the city’s police chief believes it’s due in part to a rise in violence and the stress it puts on officers in the field.

Inspired by the trucker convoy in Canada, a group from California says it will now head to D.C. to protest COVID-19 restrictions.

Howard University has received a $2 million donation to digitize a major collection of Black newspaper archives in hopes of making it more broadly available to researchers and the public.

A number of groups are organizing convoys of truckers to drive to D.C. to stage protests against pandemic restrictions, similar to those that have recently paralyzed Ottawa, the Canadian capital. That convoy blocked a key border crossing…

A new bill in the D.C. Council would allow voters to cast ballots from their phones, tablets, or computers, which proponents say would simplify the voting process and enfranchise residents who are otherwise likely to sit out elections.

WMATA has been in a tailspin for so long that it’s difficult to see it objectively anymore, especially in view of the ongoing hardships of this never-ending pandemic.

If you were looking for information from Metro’s Twitter account early Monday morning, you were met with posts that included expletives and memes that made it obvious the service’s accounts were hijacked.

Some worry the program has lost its focus and urgency as the emergency center stands down while gun violence continues.

D.C. police have begun their search for a Chief Equity Officer under the Executive Office of the Chief of Police.

Nadine Seiler began protesting at the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence in Lafayette Square in 2018. She eventually became known as the memorial’s caretaker and curator when she began collecting pieces of artwork.

D.C.'s only fully virtual charter school saw an enrollment spike. So did schools across the country.

A study finds that suspects in violent crime in the District share a lot of characteristics.

What used to be building 47 at the University of the District of Columbia will now be called The Dr. Edwin Bancroft Henderson Sports Complex, after the D.C. native credited with bringing basketball to Black youth in the early 1900s.

Emergency repair work on the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge, which links D.C. to Virginia’s Arlington County, will require restrictions on D.C. Fire and EMS vehicles that respond to emergencies on the bridge.