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A District task force released a plan Thursday to serve as a guide to lower incarceration rates by half and overhaul policing in the city.

The U.K. and South Africa variants of the coronavirus have been confirmed in DC, officials said on Thursday.

photograph taken a few years after the 1910 founding of the Commission of Fine Arts shows its seven members and the commission secretary at a moment when the capital of the United States was being radically redesigned as a grand,…

A month after the Capitol riots, neighbors who live nearby had the chance to question leaders about security and the response during a virtual town hall on Thursday.

Beyond the headlines of DC Public Schools opening for in-person learning is the reality of what opening has meant to me, educators, students and families at my school.

D.C. Council member Trayon White’s request nearly two weeks ago for a state of emergency to address a stubborn surge in homicides has drawn widespread support from city leaders and residents who now are wondering how to solve the problem. …

The acting chief of the U.S. Capitol Police said the department is humbled by news that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will introduce legislation awarding them the Congressional Gold Medal for protecting the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has strongly advocated for DC statehood and so has its lone congressional delegate, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton.

Metro’s precarious financial condition amid the pandemic was worrisome enough for some board members that they considered a pause Thursday on buying buses and selling bonds — two moves that would put the transit system hundreds of millions…

Two years after a group of dozens of D.C. community leaders took on a review of the city’s jail system, it is making 80 “thoughtful and concrete” recommendations for major changes to improve the District’s justice system.

The mid-pandemic return to school is totally weird for kids. And possibly lonely, too.

Coronavirus variants from the United Kingdom and South Africa have been detected in D.C. residents, the city’s health director announced Thursday, while Maryland announced the state’s third mass vaccination site to battle the pandemic.

The top officials from D.C., Maryland, and Virginia are calling on the federal government to step in and take on the responsibility of vaccinating thousands of federal workers who live in the region.

The two COVID-19 variants that were first detected in the U.K. and South Africa, and have since been detected in Virginia, Maryland and throughout the U.S., have been recently identified in D.C.

Local independent journalist and documentarian Kian Kelley-Chung was one of more than 40 people arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department at a racial justice protest in August. Officers seized his camera equipment, and he spent the…

In the next decade, D.C. could reduce incarceration by half, bring residents who have been in federal prisons in other states back home, and replace the D.C. Jail, which has been in deep disrepair for years.

Deep into the winter season, with a weather system approaching, meteorologists will trot out their canned explanations for whether it will snow in D.C., Maryland and Virginia — together known as the DMV. You’ve been hearing these…

THIS WEEK, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) announced she will introduce legislation to bar the use of federal funds to build a permanent fence around the Capitol. It really shouldn’t have to come to that. Walling the Capitol into a…