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Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a police officer on patrol in Florida or a correctional officer a California prison? Do you want to know what it feels like to sit in a real police cruiser or meet a dog from a K-9 unit? Now you…

A D.C. TEENAGER who had been shot more than a year earlier died from his injuries on Jan. 5, becoming the city’s first homicide victim of 2018. Five days later, on Jan. 10, another teenager — Paris Brown, 19 — was shot and killed in…

If the first week of school is any indicator of what to expect for the year, D.C. Public Schools could have a serious problem on its hands. School-by-school attendance data compiled by DCPS and obtained by WAMU shows that, compared to last…

Night mayor, night manager, night czar: The job has many names, but the idea is similar. Last week, the District of Columbia joined a small but growing number of cities worldwide when it posted a hiring notice for someone to run its new…

President Trump has appointed National Civic Art Society President Justin Shubow to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that oversees the design and construction of all buildings, monuments, and memorials in…

Some Metro officials are not convinced the agency can win back riders fleeing the system because of sparse off-peak service — or that it should try — in the face of looming financial obligations, budget constraints and the endless backlog…

While H Street Main Street's lofty vision of a massive redevelopment at the Starburst intersection (map) may still be theoretical, other development extending east of the H Street Corridor is still at various stages in the pipeline. Today,…

By day, she’s the mayor of the District of Columbia. But on Wednesday evening, Muriel Bowser was just another voter sitting through a debate between a half-dozen candidates running for two At-Large seats on the D.C. Council.

Thirty-four families are still living at D.C. General, the large, dilapidated former hospital-turned-homeless shelter that Mayor Muriel Bowser is working to close by the end of the year. The city announced to residents this summer that it…

The costs to oversee, operate and maintain Metrorail, Metrobus and paratransit services are ticking upward. Earlier this week, officials gave a wink and a nod to a quasi-independent safety panel — partly because of federal oversight, partly…

The ashes of Matthew Shepard, a gay man who was murdered because of his sexual orientation, will be interred at the Washington National Cathedral later this month. Shepard’s remains have been in storage in Wyoming, where he lived, since his…

Emergency anti-K2 legislation recently passed by the D.C. Council and signed by Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) expands the definition of synthetic cannabinoids and reinstates expired enforcement policy, part of an effort to curb an ongoing…

In 1986, Juanda Smith was saving money toward her dream of becoming a homeowner. It wasn’t enough. “I saw a condo I liked, and I was so fortunate that the sales person there encouraged me to contact the Manna/FLOC nonprofit,” says Smith,…

In the battle over clean energy and global warming, the District of Columbia rates barely a speck on the nation’s landscape, a tiny 68 square miles out of the nation’s nearly 3.8 million square miles.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s recent embrace of Dionne Reeder, who is trying to unseat D.C. Council Member Elissa Silverman next month, has filled Reeder’s campaign coffers - with much of the cash coming from Bowser’s donor network.

Residents of Northeast D.C. are trying to secure housing from the National Shrine.

The Democratic Socialists of America are on the rise nationwide, and the D.C. chapter is currently focusing their efforts on the ANC races.

The hornets almost made me turn back. I was standing beneath the Oxon Cove Bridge, an unremarkable stretch of the Anacostia Freeway that crosses over Oxon Creek just before it empties into the Potomac, on the border of Maryland and…

A D.C. business group that has previously criticized the District’s unemployment and estate taxes as well as its progressive paid leave law for being too costly has a different message in its latest report: Many people are falling behind or…

When we discuss the District’s rental housing supply, those discussions usually center on units in apartment buildings, as opposed to units that are rented out by their owners. However, in the District of Columbia, units rented out by their…