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The District’s new police chief is considering reshaping a unit tasked with pulling hundreds of guns off city streets each year, saying the strategy creates tension with communities and detracts from a sharper focus on finding shooters.

Whether the pandemic is over or not by the time the next school year rolls around in August for D.C. Public School students, the school system will still be feeling its impact. That much was made clear during a nearly nine-hour long…

Ticketing of expired meters and other parking violations remain suspended.

Staff members at Johnson Middle School allege the principal has fostered a workplace of frustration and fear, which hurts the students.

Attorneys for a woman who bragged in a Facebook live stream about storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 asked a federal judge Wednesday to move her case from Washington, D.C., to near her home in western Texas, saying a more…

Almost 18 months after office use was nixed for the the center block of DC's Capitol Crossing development, we are getting our first glimpse of the mix of uses that will land there instead.

Within five hours, over 50,000 people used the city's new vaccination portal on Wednesday to pre-register for an appointment.

D.C. Public Schools invests $19 million toward extended summer programing.

Prospects for Victory Altered by Slim Majority in Upper Chamber

Officials with five local LGBTQ organizations and one LGBTQ-supportive organization testified on March 1 before the D.C. Council Committee on Human Services in support of increased city funding for programs that provide assistance to LGBTQ…

D.C. Public Schools reopened limited in-person learning at the beginning of February for the first time in almost a year.

The ACLU of the District of Columbia and a lawyer’s group has issued a report critical of the decision by D.C. police to surround a large group of protesters on Swann Street NW and make mass arrests during last year’s social justice…

Two firefighters loaned to Washington for the day said they were the only medics on the Capitol steps Jan. 6, trying to triage injured officers as they watched the angry mob swell and attack police working to protect Congress.

The American Recovery Plan will provide $1.4 billion for transit agencies across the metro D.C. region.

A year ago, when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Salma Hasan Ali and her husband, Arif Ali, hunkered down in their house in the Palisades.

A downtown D.C. office building sold at auction Wednesday morning for $120.5 million, after its former owner allegedly defaulted on $182.5 million in debt backed by the nearly 400,000-square-foot structure located across Eye Street from…

Metro said on Wednesday that the passage of the COVID-19 relief bill saved the agency from the service cuts and layoffs that had been proposed in its next budget.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a dramatic drop in meals provided by schools across the U.S., including in D.C. But as other school systems improved, D.C. never caught up, according to a new report.