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The D.C. Council gave initial approval to raise the re-sentencing eligibility age from 17 to 24.

After the discovery of a botched firearms analysis at the D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences led federal prosecutors to review ballistics evidence in dozens of other open cases, the director of the lab told WTOP that her department runs…

“Tone deaf.” “Unfit.” “A poster child for the bad cop.” This is how some residents of Prince William County described their incoming police chief, the current head of Metropolitan Police Department Peter Newsham.

To the FBI, Charles “Rags” Warring was a bootlegger and a numbers runner. To the IRS, he was a tax cheat who had the audacity to claim as deductions the bribes he paid to District cops. To The Washington Post, he was the “genial…

Happy December. The DC Council gave initial approval to an array of bills on Tuesday, including one that would allow prisoners who committed crimes before the age of 25 to seek early release.

One of many bills the D.C. Council voted on this week will take a new look at poverty in the District.

From coast to coast, transit agencies are planning for layoffs and pared-down service as the coronavirus pandemic decimates budgets and a federal stimulus package remains stalled in Congress.

D.C.-area officials say the next federal coronavirus relief bill must include public transportation funds to help bail out Metro from a budget deficit of nearly $495 million for operations next year.

The D.C. Council unanimously voted to approve an omnibus criminal justice reform bill on Tuesday, marking another step toward possible early release for some incarcerated D.C. residents.

The D.C. Council is already planning for life after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Zalaunshae leaned close to the laptop camera, her oversize pink bows filling the computer screen. The teacher asked students to name characters in “The Enormous Turnip.” Zalaunshae raised her hand first.

Cashless restaurants and retailers would no longer be able to operate in the nation’s capital under legislation approved Tuesday by the D.C. Council, one of several business measures advanced ahead of a year-end deadline.

Aaron Silverman's pop-up delivery and catering service has found a permanent home at Barracks Row.

On a Friday morning in late November, three classrooms with a handful of masked students at Savoy Elementary School were silent — but also more alive than they’d been since March.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday passed several transportation measures, including one that would make it easier for some road users, including e-scooter riders, to recoup a share of medical bills and other costs if injured in a collision.

Litter has plagued many D.C. streets and alleys for years, and over the last eight months, the pandemic has only exacerbated the issue. Now, a new government initiative is testing a strategy to promote proper trash disposal, and they’re…

The city has more than 80,000 health care workers, but will receive just 8,000 doses in its first allocation, according to recent estimates.

D.C. Public Schools abandoned a plan to return some students in person learning earlier in November. Now, one student at Langley Elementary School in Eckington considers what finishing out the school year on a virtual format might look…

As election season comes to an end, candidates are running out of time to clear their campaign posters from D.C. streets.

Esquire may have deemed Seven Reasons the nation's best new restaurant of 2019, but its owners believe they are far from perfect.