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The U.S. Interior Department announced a new policy this week that will require all law enforcement agencies within the department — including the U.S. Park Police — to wear body cameras.

Election Day is just over a month away, and the talk of the town for D.C. political insiders revolves around Kenyan McDuffie's uncertain future.

Newly released student immunization rates are bringing calls for a broader effort to boost vaccination rates as a key deadline looms.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday voted 12-1 to pass a bill that prohibits drivers from making a right turn on red at most intersections.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday took the first of two votes to allow the District’s noncitizen residents to cast ballots in local elections, coming close to concluding an almost decade-long effort by activists and council members to…

The D.C. Council on Tuesday gave initial approval to a pair of bills that will reshape the city’s election system, largely by expanding how people vote and who can vote.

The change follows a steep drop in fare evasion tickets and arrests in recent years, with 15,000 in 2017 falling to fewer than 300 last year

For a dozen years, internal and external audits of the Washington subway’s communications systems — the basic tools that enable transit workers to talk with each other and the public — have spotlighted troubles that could endanger…

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is cracking down on people who skip paying fares at the turnstiles and gates.

The ancient Greeks referred to planets as “wandering stars” for the peripatetic way the celestial bodies moved across the night sky. That’s just the sort of factoid you might learn on a TV show that, in its own way, risked becoming a…

January 6 defendants being held at the D.C. Jail say that if conditions at the facility don’t improve, they’d rather be transferred to Guantanamo Bay, where they think they’d at least get better meals, medical care, and exercise.

Metro is rolling out a multi-faceted plan to address a $40 million fare evasion problem.

D.C. voters, make sure to check your mail.

Metro is launching a new effort to stop fare evasion on buses and trains, with plans to begin issuing citations and fines in November after a warning period over the next month.

COVID-19 cases in D.C.’s public schools remain low a month into the academic year — although the data available is much less detailed than last year and it’s harder to make comparisons.

The city is letting foreclosures move ahead after a key moratorium expired, which looks likely to affect Black homeowners.

The city has yet to reach about half of those on its “People of Promise” list, and a top official graded the program as a C-plus.

The District is so heavily Democratic, general elections can seem like an afterthought. Not so this year. On the ballot Nov. 8 are spirited contests for seats on the D.C. Council and the State Board of Education, and the stakes are high.

Over the summer, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser convened a group of local advocates and city officials and tasked them with an ambitious directive: to come up with suggestions to increase the number of Black residents who own houses in the…

D.C. wants to make 20,000 additional Black Washingtonians homeowners by 2030.