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The District is slowly opening the door to allow more evictions, as lawmakers prepare to take up a bill that would allow landlords to evict tenants so long as they’ve tried to secure rental assistance money for them first.

Hackers who have infiltrated the D.C. police department’s computer network have posted hundreds and possibly thousands of purported department documents, many containing what appears to be information related to gang and crew intelligence.…

Public health experts are still cautious, but they say this could be the beginning of the end.

Foreign hackers on Thursday made public what they say is the 250 gigabytes of internal files and data they stole from Metropolitan Police Department computers last month. The move comes after what hackers said were failed ransom…

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is calling on Mayor Muriel Bowser to take “immediate action” to change the leadership at the troubled D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences — the city’s crime lab — where issues with handling evidence have…

Department of Corrections Director Quincy Booth says he hasn’t heard concerns about solitary “safe cells” at the DC Jail. Critics have been raising the issue for years.

D.C. Public Schools said it plans to welcome all students back for five-day a week in-person learning when the 2021-2022 school year begins on Aug. 30.

The pandemic exposed fault lines and places of possibility. Here’s what we might keep from this radical period of change.

The program from Rhizome DC and Guilded: A Freelancers Cooperative repurposes the community supported agriculture model for local artists and art lovers.

Employers of health care workers and first responders continue to encourage, not require, more workers to get the shot.

D.C. entertainment venues can return to full capacity on June 11, but if you need something to tide you over until then, check out the newest virtual events by the Washington Improv Theater.

The deliberations over the long-shot bill center on three Electoral College votes the Constitution gives to the seat of government.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is calling for a change in leadership at the troubled Department of Forensic Sciences.

Darrell Moore was 16 when he and a gang of young robbers barged into a Northeast Washington apartment in 1994 and terrorized a group of women and children, fatally shooting a teenage girl as she knelt in prayer and wounding her mother and…

Ward 4 campaign sign confiscation kerfuffle comes to a dead end

Within days of the D.C. crime lab having its accreditation to perform forensic testing suspended last month amid an ongoing investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says it stepped into action, hauling a…