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After the second suicide at Northwest D.C.’s William Howard Taft Bridge in less than a year, the District Department of Transportation reacted publicly Wednesday, assuring that suicide prevention barriers would be installed there soon.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton had raised concerns about access to the online passes.

The next president of George Washington University, a sociologist, is provost of the Rochester Institute of Technology

Should Gustavo Petro ever tire of being president of the Republic of Colombia, there’s at least one local resident who would elect him to public office in the District of Columbia.

Speaking in a packed room at the Busboys and Poets in Anacostia on Tuesday, D.C. activists held up large red signs with large white letters: “THOU SHALT NOT KILL.”

Hundreds of people filled the auditorium at the Turkey Thicket recreation center in Northeast D.C. on Tuesday night to demand answers and support the family of Karon Blake, the 13-year-old fatally shot by a neighbor over the weekend.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The fatal shooting of a middle-school student has sparked public uproar as the nation’s capital struggles with rising tensions about violent crime and racial justice.

Four days after a man shot and killed 13-year-old Karon Blake, police have neither identified nor arrested the known shooter.

The city is getting its first new public high school in decades. It’s opening this fall at the former Georgetown Day School on MacArthur Boulevard.

The Walmart Supercenter in H Street NW, one of the area’s more affordable grocery stores, has begun restocking its shelves after being almost bare of groceries for days.

The new chair of the DC Council's Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety is joining with her predecessor on an effort to override the mayor's veto of the Revised Criminal Code Act.

The social media app suspended the @metrobusinfo account on Tuesday for about six hours and gave Metro transit officials no explanation

The author of the AIA Guide weighs in on our buildings.

D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III on Tuesday defended not immediately identifying the man who fatally shot a 13-year-old boy he claimed to have seen breaking into vehicles, and said any charges would probably be decided by a grand…

When Mario Leonard was a boy, he was rescued from a house fire, but his mother perished. His grandparents stepped in to raise him. But they died before he got to grow up.

Hours before a scheduled community meeting, the head of D.C. police gave an impassioned statement to address what he called the “spreading of inaccurate information” surrounding the shooting death of a 13-year-old boy accused of breaking…

As outraged residents continue to demand answers regarding the 13-year-old fatally shot over the weekend by a Brookland man, D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee held an impassioned press conference Tuesday afternoon — offering few new details…

A federal judge has ordered D.C. to immediately allow drivers with more than $100 in outstanding fines or fees to obtain or renew their driver’s license, a ruling that supporters say could benefit tens of thousands of residents — many of…

D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton is pressing the director of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo for answers about its policy that still requires visitors to book free, timed-entry passes to gain admission. District residents and tourists…

It’s been a week since D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb came into office, and by his own admission it’s been a whirlwind to get up to speed on all the work the hundreds of attorneys in the office do in representing both the city and the…