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As chief, Contee did not impose meaningful discipline against many officers despite official findings of wrongdoing, according to the Office of Police Complaints director, protecting repeat offenders and allowing sustained misconduct to go…

Some officers were suspended, but some only received a letter in their personnel file.

A proposal before the D.C. Council aims to give more enforcement power to city agencies to target repeat offenders, including drivers who accumulate fines for speeding and reckless driving

Precious American artifacts would have a new $72 million home under a proposal being advanced in D.C.

The DC Council will take up emergency public safety legislation tomorrow as part of a lengthy agenda at the final legislative meeting before its summer recess.

The displays of Barbie and her crew at the pond have delighted neighbors, made the must-see lists of tourists and even played a role in a wedding proposal

The neighborhood has less than 1% of the city’s designated affordable housing units.

Several D.C. restaurant owners have recently been slapped with steep fines over alleged wage theft in what the industry sees as a surprise move by the city’s Department of Employment Services.

Strong rainstorms this week have scuttled a Saturday swim in the Anacostia River, which would have been the first legally authorized dip into the waterway in more than half a century.

In his June 27 statement before the D.C. Council on Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s crime bill, D.C. Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb said that the mayor’s proposed changes to the city’s juvenile pretrial detention statute “appear intended to…

People were going to be allowed to swim legally in the Anacostia River on Saturday for the first time in half a century, but organizers called off the event because a rainstorm caused raw sewage to overflow into the water.

Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto unveiled a new emergency crime bill Thursday, incorporating many elements of the public safety bill introduced earlier this year by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.

“Innocent unless proven guilty” is the presumption of innocence in courtrooms across the U.S., but members of the D.C. Council are looking for ways to keep dangerous drivers off the road in the meantime.

Pepco will have to pay back ratepayers roughly $800,000, after the D.C. Public Service Commission found the utility violated the law in its management of solar programs in the District.

Rep. James Comer, chairman of the powerful congressional committee that oversees D.C., is preparing to introduce legislation that could ultimately allow the District to build a Washington Commanders football stadium or another mixed-use…

D.C. Council member Brianne Nadeau introduced emergency legislation Thursday to further review sexual harassment allegations made against Mayor Muriel Bowser’s former chief of staff and deputy mayor for planning and economic development.

More than seven years after Mayor Muriel Bowser first pitched a plan to build family homeless shelters in every ward across D.C., Ward 2 is finally set to receive its own iteration.

Bread for the City, a D.C. nonprofit that provides food, medical, and social services to low-income residents, has filed a lawsuit against the city for sending armed D.C. police officers as “default” first responders to the scene of mental…

The American Civil Liberties Union of D.C. filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the District of Columbia on behalf of a local nonprofit that has asserted the city’s system of sending police officers as the “default first responders”…