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D.C. Police on Friday released body-worn camera footage and the name of the officer who fatally shot Kevin Hargraves-Shird in a park in Northwest last Saturday, an incident that has prompted calls for accountability from his friends and…

Ahead of a D.C. Council hearing in January 2020, the Bowser administration told lawmakers that one of the city government’s top priorities for the coming year would be reducing gun violence and making the District a model city for police…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon rejected a request from the District of Columbia seeking National Guard assistance in what the mayor has called a “growing humanitarian crisis” prompted by thousands of migrants being bused to the city from…

The Biden administration on Friday denied D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s request for assistance from the National Guard to help the city process the busloads of migrants that Republican governors in Texas and Arizona have been sending to…

The U.S. Department of Defense has denied D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s request for National Guard support to aid migrants who are being bused to D.C. by Republican governors.

A former Metropolitan Police Department lieutenant has been arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter after fatally shooting a D.C. Public Library police officer Thursday afternoon.

The fatal shooting occurred at a training session at a library branch in Southeast Washington

In 2021, D.C. implemented the Sexual Assault Victims’ Rights Amendment Act of 2019 (SAVRAA), which gives 13- to 17-year-old victims of sexual assault in D.C. the right to an advocate — a trained professional from a community-based…

Washingtonians might leave museums to tourists, but D.C. resident Noelle Harada set out to visit every museum in town in just one year. So far, she's crossed 73 off her list and has about ten left to go.

Less than a month away from the start of school, a quarter of D.C. students are behind on routine childhood vaccinations, and city officials are in the final push of a summer-long campaign to get shots in arms.

The transit agency’s regulator said it found one control room in a condition of disrepair and neglect

With Hurricane Isabel still churning off the coast of North Carolina, on Sept. 18, 2003, D.C. and federal officials decided to shut down the nation’s capital. Metro trains and buses stopped running mid-morning, the day before the storm hit…

Monkeypox has spread to the homeless population in D.C., with two confirmed cases, as the District launches weekly walk-up vaccination clinics in an attempt to slow the spread of the virus.

Arlene Tutt never really got her brother’s job until she tried to do it, days after he died.

Metro needs to inspect, clean, and protect Metrorail station rooms that house equipment that detects when trains are on tracks and helps the system avoid crashes, the agency’s safety oversight body said in a report released Thursday. The…

Starting tomorrow, limited walk-up monkeypox vaccinations will be available for eligible D.C. residents on Fridays, city officials announced on Wednesday.

For the first time ever, Children’s National Hospital has a violence intervention program aimed at youth victims.

Georgetown University is looking to redevelop its law school campus between Judiciary Square and Union Station as the institution continues to grow its academic, administrative and residential spaces outside of the neighborhood that shares…

A $90 million project would add educational and recreational space atop piers and pilings from the old 11th Street Bridge

Standing in front of a crowd last month along the District’s 14th Street corridor, outgoing D.C. Health director LaQuandra Nesbitt warned of an emerging viral outbreak facing the city and detailed her department’s strategy to get residents…