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With crime a top concern among Americans, cities and states are looking back at the reforms many embraced following the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. The trick will be avoiding overcorrection, holding police…

D.C. cops are working so much overtime that the mayor needs to shuffle more than $16 million in funding to cover their budget.

For the last two years, students at Kramer Middle School in D.C. have had the opportunity to go on trips for college tours.

A DC Council roundtable yesterday elicited calls for Mayor Muriel Bowser's administration to do more to tackle the District's opioid crisis and reverse the surge of fatal overdoses in recent years.

The opioid crisis should command more of mayor’s attention, advocates said, as a commission begins to decide how to use $80 million in settlement dollars

More than a dozen residents, doctors, and public health professionals testified before the D.C. Council on Thursday, supporting a long-held demand that Mayor Muriel Bowser declare a public health emergency in response to the city’s…

Medical providers at Unity Health Care, the District’s largest federally-qualified health center that serves tens of thousands of the city’s most vulnerable patients, are trying to form a union.

When you walk into Mike Savage’s house in Waldorf, Maryland, one of the first things you see is a table full of medals, awards, and photos — a shrine to his career as a police officer.

The preliminary data show D.C. continues to outpace pre-pandemic growth in schools

Preliminary figures released today by the DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education show increased enrollment this year in DC Public Schools as well as charter schools, with both posting totals above those before the pandemic.

The ofrenda at the Mexican Cultural Institute will have all the traditional elements and pay tribute to a woman whose legacy shows the complexity of history

You now have until Nov. 4 to submit feedback on a proposed plan to remove 1,200 trees from Rock Creek Park in D.C.

Acting police Chief Pamela Smith’s nomination to become the permanent leader of the District’s police force has been approved by a key D.C. Council committee. The nomination now heads for a final vote by the entire council next month.

There’s overtime pay, and then there’s this. A small group of MPD officers works 12-18 hours nearly every day. What’s going on?

Mayor Bowser is doubling down on building a new football stadium at RFK, freeing up her top confidant to focus on it and hiring consultants who worked on Nats Park.

The DC Council is on track to vote Nov. 7 on Mayor Muriel Bowser's nomination of Pamela Smith as the permanent chief of the Metropolitan Police Department.

The D.C. Council is considering a bill that would provide grant funding to revive and sustain local news outlets amid declining revenues, increased layoffs, and shuttering newsrooms. Councilmembers Janeese Lewis George and Brianne Nadeau…

The 18-hole golf course in Rock Creek Park is in dire need of rehabilitation: 4 holes are completely unplayable, fairways are overgrown, and the turf has large patches of bare dirt. But a project to restore the course has some residents…

A "gray market" of marijuana sales and other drugs on the street are "fueling violence" in Washington, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday — as she sought to enact new policing measures.