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Acting Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee III was called “homegrown” and “reform-minded” by community members, while facing tough questions by D.C. councilmembers Thursday during his nomination hearing.

Maria Gomez is leaving Mary’s Center after more than three decades with the organization.

D.C.’s acting police chief fielded questions on police training, community outreach and more from D.C. Council members who will help decide whether he gets the position permanently.

The veteran police officer and lifelong D.C. resident chosen by the mayor as the District’s next police chief told lawmakers Thursday he wants officers to be “laser-focused” on violent offenders while avoiding indiscriminate arrests that…

Bipartisan legislation that would prohibit installation of permanent fencing on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol was unveiled Thursday.

A bill that would ban the federal government from spending money on a permanent fence around the U.S. Capitol is gaining traction in both parties and chambers.

The D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences is under criminal investigation amid allegations that managers at the independent lab pressured analysts to change their conclusions, and then potentially misrepresented findings to its accrediting…

D.C. is getting shortchanged by the federal government again.

D.C. wasn't interested in a high-capacity site, but it wouldn't have come with more vaccine doses.

D.C. senior citizens are lagging behind other eligible groups in booking coronavirus vaccination appointments through the city’s preregistration system, with 35 percent failing to secure an available slot after getting an invitation from…

When Louis Sawyer Jr.’s family visited him, they took a 14-hour road trip on an overnight bus to get to the federal penitentiary near Jonesville, Va. And that was one of the easier trips during his 25 years in the federal prison system.

Five new restaurants are slated to come to the Skyland Town Center development in Ward 7. And leasing for Skyland’s first residential property is also beginning.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced a lawsuit March 8 against a home health care provider for defrauding the District’s Medicaid program of more than $3 million from 2012 to 2014, in part by preying on people experiencing…

D.C. has not qualified for a new Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) program that would boost the city’s supply of doses from the federal government and stand up a vaccination site with a capacity ranging from 250 to 6,000…

For the first time this year, D.C. is no longer strongly encouraging nonessential workers to do their jobs from home.

An unusual summer break is poised to follow what has already been an abnormal year for some D.C. students, with the city’s public schools packing extra learning opportunities between July and August.