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When asked about how he approaches his job, U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said, “I’m not taking any chances.”

Increased threats to Congress, departure of dozens of officers contribute to heavy workload; officers want more help and accountability.

Students in D.C. Public Schools already had Monday off as part of winter break, but the snowstorm has extended their break by a day.

Police departments around the region are more than ready to turn the page to 2022, with hopes that a new year will mean a reduction in the ever escalating amount of violent crime that’s been seen during the pandemic.

On its last day of business in 2021, the Senate confirmed dozens of President Biden’s judicial nominees waiting to get to work.

Rosalind Page, a nurse and mother of four daughters, spends her days scouring websites for the names and photos of women and girls lost to violence

The rise in killings largely attributed to gunfire reflects a national trend

At least three D.C. councilmembers are urging D.C. Public Schools to adopt more COVID-19 protection measures before students return to classrooms on January 5.

Days before more than 90,000 D.C. public school students are due back in the classroom, the details of the opening are still being worked out, according to schools Chancellor Lewis Ferebee.

Across the region, more people are hospitalized with COVID-19 than at any other point in the pandemic — underscoring the magnitude of omicron’s surge in the final weeks of the year.

D.C. Public Schools are gearing up for a return to the classroom next week that parents and teachers worry will be chaotic. The city will require a negative coronavirus test from every student and staff member before school resumes next…

Brittany Graham describes Lorraine Thomas, the 21-year-old Washington Highlands resident now memorialized on a mural outside Chesapeake Big Market, as her “guardian angel.”

The District ended fiscal year 2021 with $576 million in revenue beyond the initial estimates used in drafting the budget.

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are on the rise, with half of all new cases reported being among 15-to-24-year-olds. Abstinence-only sex “education” exacerbates transmission rates by decreasing the likelihood that youths will make…

There was another traffic crash involving a child. This one was in the 3300 block of Wheeler Road SE. A 9-year-old child is paralyzed. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) made what WAMU reporter Martin Austermuhle identified as a rare…

On a narrow sidewalk in Northwest Washington, a small group of volunteers stacked cardboard and folded plastic sheets, loaded shopping carts and handed out hot coffee as they helped a chronically homeless man named Ashmore take stock of…