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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser swore in Robert J. Contee III as the new police chief of the Metropolitan Police Department on Saturday.

Entertainment venues struggling around the country will receive $15 billion as part of the pandemic relief package passed by Congress in December.

Three new D.C. Council members — all women — were sworn into office Saturday morning, marking a leftward shift in the city’s leadership and the first majority-female council in more than 20 years.

Online classes in the District of Columbia in spring had been a disaster. Thousands of students didn’t have computers or reliable WiFi. Many were falling behind. So as spring gave way to summer, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) was determined to…

The D.C. Council welcomed its newest members on Jan. 2, and — for the first time in two decades — women hold a majority of the seats.

The $5,500 arrived in the middle of August with no strings attached. For Zabria Proctor, it was a godsend. The rent was due. The car loan and insurance needed paying. Bills were piling up. The fridge was often close to bare.

On his first day on the job as a firefighter in Southeast Washington, John A. Donnelly Sr. responded to calls for a baby being born, a shooting, a fire and a person suffering a heart attack.

Building confidence at the grass-roots level and getting “buy-in” from the community before trying something difficult seem like two of those fundamentals that politicians are supposed to have absorbed in Politics 101. When it comes to the…

Extremism experts who study the far-right warn that D.C. is on a path to become the next battleground in increasingly violent confrontations with left-leaning counterdemonstrators.

Homicides in the District rose for the third consecutive year in 2020, reaching nearly 200 for the first time since the previous decade and further stressing a city rattled by the pandemic and social and political unrest.

Happy New Year's Eve. DC will end 2020 with at least 198 homicides — the highest tally since 2004, when the city recorded 248 murders.

The crowds are gone for now, but the cold wind is whipping the flags that remain on Black Lives Matter Plaza — rainbow ones, anti-Trump ones, American ones — marking an ongoing momentum on the last day of a calamitous year.

Charlie Lund, 82, spent four decades as an English professor in D.C. — a job that he adored. But at his core, those who knew him said, he had always been a student first.

The D.C. Department of Employment Services said Thursday that it expects to begin distributing additional unemployment benefits in January as part of new federal coronavirus relief legislation.

What happened in the arts scene in a year where museums, venues, theaters, and stages of all kinds were closed?

The District is soliciting bids to redevelop the Frank D. Reeves Center at the corner of 14th and U streets NW, where a new national headquarters of the NAACP is envisioned.

Larry Calhoun distinctly remembers August 9. What should otherwise have been just another weekend night was interrupted by word of a mass shooting at a block party in Southeast D.C.