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WASHINGTON — Two strangers out to take photos of a beautiful, snowy night ended up in a life-or-death situation together in the height of Sunday’s snowstorm. The rescue in Rock Creek Park involved one of WTOP’s very own.

Are you still a mother if your child passes away? What if you lose a child and just so happen to be engaged in a casual conversation with a stranger who offhandedly asks, “So, how many children do you have?” How do you answer that? In the…

WASHINGTON — D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser vetoed a measure Wednesday that would decriminalize fare evasion on Metro.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has rejected the D.C. Council’s decision to decriminalize Metro fare jumping, issuing her second-ever veto Wednesday amid concern the measure would exacerbate the transit agency’s financial problems.

Mayor Muriel Bowser vetoed the D.C. Council’s Fare Evasion Decriminalization Act on Wednesday, writing in a letter to Council Chairman Phil Mendelson that the bill “will result in additional lost revenue for the Metro system” and that “we…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser wants to see the District’s police department grow over the next four years by adding about 150 officers, allowing more front-line protectors to walk neighborhood beats and ride bikes, Segways and scooters.

Try to imagine a 16th Street with no cars. Mayor Muriel Bowser can.

In 2018, workers removed legally protected materials from the building, which is being turned into a museum

More development is on the boards for Northeast.

The General Services Administration “ignored” concerns that President Trump’s lease on a government-owned building — the one that houses his Trump International Hotel in Washington — might violate the Constitution when it allowed Trump to…

While attending a bachelorette party at a Gallery Place restaurant in June, a transgender woman reported being asked to provide her ID to use the bathroom—which is illegal in the District. Ultimately, she was kicked out of the…

A D.C.-based religious order is still seeking an exemption from an Obama-era mandate that demands it cover contraceptives.

Metro has put eight pieces of extra land up for sale, and one plot has caught the eye of dog lovers in Columbia Heights: 1100 Park Road Northwest.

Those who live in the District’s only floating neighborhood like to think of themselves as hardy people — they have to be.

Federal officials have launched an audit of the D.C. government’s handling of millions of dollars in grants that the city has been awarded over the past two years to treat opioid addiction and reduce fatal overdoses.

Community members were visibly unsatisfied with answers and what they viewed as police refusal to release footage at a Jan. 15th meeting between Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 6B and District…

Good Wednesday morning. Trust me — that was essentially Muriel Bowser's message this morning on Fox 5. Sitting next to her chief of police, the mayor vowed the recent homicide spike will go down, as the number of killings so far has…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has returned the D.C. Council’s short-term rental restriction bill unsigned and without a veto, seemingly allowing it to become law while warning the legislation may be unconstitutional.

Northeast D.C. brewing company Atlas Brew Works is asking a federal judge to allow it to sell “The Precious One,” a cheekily-named, apricot-infused IPA that the brewer has been rendered partially unable to sell thanks to the federal…

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - It was a rocky end to 2018 and has been a violent beginning to 2019 in the District. The two city leaders at the forefront of the fight to control crime, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C Police Chief Peter Newsham,…