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Pamela A. Smith told commanders at a recent meeting that she wanted more captains and lieutenants away from their desks and in the streets, according to those in attendance

Lawsuit filed by ACLU against Corrections Department alleges jail officials refused to provide kosher meals to incarcerated Jewish people without verification

The D.C. region’s unemployment rate is improving, with at least one county seeing a 33-year low in joblessness. But digging into the numbers shows that Black Washingtonians make up a disproportionate number of those still struggling to…

D.C. would like to remake Pennsylvania Avenue into a more lively corridor between the White House and Capitol Hill.

With fatal overdoses at record highs, District officials are under pressure to escalate the city’s response to a crisis that is primarily killing Black men

D.C.’s Office of the Attorney General is attempting to demystify restaurant service fees, which have become increasingly common after District residents voted to phase out the tipped minimum wage structure in November.

After regulators ruled that Pepco violated D.C. law in its implementation of community solar in the city, the utility company is telling solar owners they will need to manually track solar generation, entering thousands of lines of data…

With 162 homicides so far in 2023 and a particularly violent start to August, the District has already matched or exceeded the full-year tallies recorded between 2009 and 2018.

The Washington Commanders are the closest they’ve ever been to returning to the old RFK Stadium site in D.C. — the NFL team’s home base from the days when it won three Super Bowls and captured the city’s attention each Sunday.

Just weeks after the D.C. Board of Elections determined that a proposed ballot initiative to bring ranked-choice voting and open primaries to the city’s elections was legally sufficient to move forward, the D.C. Democratic Party has filed…

A civic association in West End filed a lawsuit against the D.C. government and Mayor Muriel Bowser to prevent the city from acquiring the Aston, a vacant graduate dorm owned by George Washington University that officials hope to turn into…

Sylvia M. Burwell came to AU in 2017 after serving in the Obama administration

The city let buildings fill with people grappling with mental illness and addiction, leaving the landlord and neighbors to figure it out

Upon learning of former president Trump’s most recent indictment last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had a novel take: “Americans,” he tweeted, should “have the right to remove cases from Washington, D.C.” On Fox News, he added, “It is…

The ex-procurement manager inappropriately helped a woman selling D.C. masks and other PPE, the city’s ethics board recently ruled.

Many businesses in downtown D.C. are breathing a sigh of relief after reports from Friday that President Joe Biden is pushing cabinet members to bring federal workers back to offices.

The D.C. Democratic Party has filed a lawsuit aiming to keep a ranked choice voting and open primaries from getting onto the city’s ballot for next year, saying that both changes to how D.C. runs its elections would run afoul of the city’s…

The DC Office of the Inspector General late last week released its formal request seeking an outside firm to review the two internal investigations that upheld sexual harassment complaints by two employees against John Falcicchio, former…

His motorcade traversed a handful of uncovered blocks in the city as he headed from the airport to the courthouse.

Supporters say the private school voucher program needs a boost, while critics worry about the effects on public education