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Medical residents and fellows at George Washington University voted to unionize Thursday, joining a growing list of employees organizing in residency programs across the U.S.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser launched a national search to find a replacement for departing Police Chief Robert J. Contee III, with hopes of having someone in place by the time he leaves the post in early June. At the same time, Bowser and…

Speaking frankly and in personal terms, D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee addressed the public Thursday, explaining his decision to step down from the police department after more than 30 years on the force, including two years as chief.

Protesters smeared black and red paint on the case and pedestal of Edgar Degas’s “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” sculpture at the National Gallery of Art in D.C. on Thursday to bring attention to the climate crisis and demand that President…

The sudden announcement of Contee’s departure has officials and critics wondering what’s next for the department.

The D.C. Council’s transportation committee is set to make a transit tradeoff in the budget — free bus fares for the entire city while pausing the long-planned K Street Transitway downtown to pay for it.

Efforts to tinker with decades-old rules that limit long-distance flying at DCA have been met with outcry from lawmakers in the Washington region

Melissa Chapman was recently awarded sole custody of her children — but only after a years-long legal battle. Her ex — who she says had a history of domestic violence against her, leading to a civil protection order — hired a private…

Reagan National Airport has few nonstop flights to the West Coast due to federal limits. Now, Delta Air Lines is part of a new coalition lobbying to allow airlines to make farther nonstop trips.

Just hours after announcing Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Contee's plans to retire June 3 for a post at the FBI, Mayor Muriel Bowser and the outgoing chief outlined a new policing strategy aimed at enhancing community…

D.C. police chief Robert Contee is retiring from the force and is accepting a role with the FBI, sources tell WTOP.

D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III is retiring and taking a high-level job with the FBI, leaving a department he has served for more than three decades as it continues to struggle with a spike in certain violent crimes and staffing…

D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III is planning to retire, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced in a statement Wednesday evening, as federal lawmakers increasingly turn their attention to public safety in the city and violent crime…

The product the 19-year-old created uses technology to let adults know when a child moves a stored gun

Trips on Uber and Lyft in and out of downtown D.C. could soon be a little more expensive.

The two freelance journalists alleged they were illegally arrested. As part of the $175,000 settlement, the city did not admit wrongdoing.

The nation’s capital has a wealth of art museums and galleries, but sometimes, you don’t have set foot in the building to see the art. In D.C.’s “Vacant to Visual,” works of art are created on the exterior of vacant buildings.

A federal judge ruled late last week that D.C.’s longstanding ban on high-capacity gun magazines is constitutional, saying that there’s no practical or historical reason that gun-owners in the city should need more than the 10 bullets per…

Lately D.C. has been on a tree-planting binge, planting more than 12 thousand new trees across the city in 2022. But all that frenetic shoveling and staking and watering is barely keeping pace with the loss of mature trees, many of which…