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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…

When M.K. arrived at the D.C. Jail around the start of 2022, his HIV was undetectable — meaning the virus was suppressed to the point where it couldn’t be transmitted to others. This was thanks to a decade of using the HIV medication…

Mel Amos inched toward the front of the line wrapped around the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in downtown D.C., steeling herself from the January chill in a puffy Washington Redskins jacket. Inside, she would find out if she was…

The DC Department of Corrections is facing a new lawsuit alleging a lack of appropriate and constitutionally mandated medical care for people incarcerated at the DC jail who have severe medical needs.

I was driving through a neighborhood in Southeast Washington where a 12-year-old girl was shot and wounded on Friday night. A few blocks away, seven adults had also been shot that night. But you’d never know it from the look of things.

Employees of the Wharf InterContinental Hotel in D.C., including staff of acclaimed Vietnamese restaurant Moon Rabbit, want to form a union, citing worries about their wages and working conditions.

Amid Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed reductions in spending on housing production – and a looming deadline to build 36,000 new units of housing across the city – Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau unveiled a slate of proposals Tuesday…

The agency says it doesn’t have the capacity to manage these improvements, despite well-documented needs.