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A 911 dispatcher failed to communicate the urgency of the flooding last week at a D.C. dog daycare, officials said Monday. The floods resulted in the death of ten dogs.

On a Thursday morning this past month, a woman walked in to D.C. police’s Sixth District station and told officers she needed help. She said she was hearing voices, according to court records, and had told a friend she was suicidal.

In a lot behind Ketcham Elementary School in D.C.’s Anacostia neighborhood, ground was broken Monday morning for the city’s newest recreation center. The $15 million Anacostia Recreation Center will be the first new recreation center built…

The delay in alerting first responders to the flooding at a pet day care in Northeast D.C. last week was the result of a miscommunication between D.C.’s 911 call center and D.C. Fire and EMS about the situation’s severity, according to the…

With water pouring into the D.C. business, a dispatcher told firefighters there was a leak. Ten dogs were killed.

A dozen contenders or more could jump into the race to replace Gray should he decide to step back amid health challenges.

After a quarter-century of helping incarcerated fathers maintain connections with their children in D.C., a local organization founder is retiring to West Virginia.

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During the covid-19 pandemic, D.C. officials could safely say the nation’s capital was not alone in struggling to reduce deadly gun violence, as homicides spiked here just as they did in cities across the country.

A bench-clearing brawl of sorts has broken out over alleged cheating in a Little League serving one of the District’s wealthiest neighborhoods.

“We are clearly in a war zone.” Judging from media coverage, that declaration by D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. (D) about his Ward 8 district has been heard across the country. A tad apocalyptic? Not to White and many of his…

Multiple volunteers at the Humane Rescue Alliance, the region’s largest animal rescue service provider, allege that understaffing at the agency’s D.C. shelters has led to unacceptable living conditions for a ballooning population of…

As climate change takes hold, chronic flooding is not affecting all residents equally.

A former employee of JLT Trucking says his boss, Jerome L. Taylor, took an envelope full of cash to a meeting with DCHA’s Lorry Bonds before receiving the five-year trash contract.

D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb’s office and federal investigators are looking into John Falcicchio, a former aide to the city’s mayor, a source close to the investigation tells WTOP.

The Metropolitan Police Department announced Thursday that it would be handing out more money as part of its ongoing effort to beef up the District’s police force.

In order to help prevent devastating flooding in the area of Northeast D.C., the District Department of Transportation told WTOP that a plan is in the works that would initiate a road closure if powerful storms are coming to the area.

Investigators with the FBI and Office of the Attorney General have begun asking questions about the former top Bowser aide, who was found to have sexually harassed city employees.

D.C. officials released limited new details Thursday about the emergency response to flooding that killed 10 dogs at a doggy day care in Northeast Washington, saying they were still reviewing radio transmissions and conducting interviews…