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The D.C. Council on Tuesday unanimously approved Robert J. Contee III to serve as chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, putting him in charge of the law enforcement agency he joined three decades ago and which now faces twin…

The D.C. Council on Tuesday unanimously approved Robert J. Contee III as the District’s police chief, elevating a native Washingtonian and veteran of the force who lawmakers hope will join with them to reinvent the department in this…

DC Health is making recommendations on reopening based on the number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.

A new website lets D.C. residents see their COVID-19 vaccination records, but some may not be able to access electronic records. Don’t lose track of your card just yet.

Robert Contee was officially confirmed as the District’s new police chief Tuesday.

It’s not the beer-shot combo you’re used to, but D.C. officials are now offering a special deal for residents who get vaccinated.

Mayor Muriel Bowser is planning to set aside millions more in federal stimulus money than initially planned for D.C. Public Schools for next academic year, an infusion of cash that parents and education advocates are cautiously optimistic…

Some parents save for years to help their kids pay for college. Others who are more fortunate may set up trust funds for their children, giving them a head start on financial stability when they become adults.

After more than a year under a strict, 23-hour daily lockdown, roughly 1,500 men and women at the D.C. Jail will be granted two hours outside of their cells — a slight increase over the one hour they’ve been allotted since the pandemic…

A strict lockdown at the D.C. jail has started to ease, but inmates are still being kept in their cells nearly all day as part of an effort to limit the spread of the coronavirus throughout the facility.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday will consider legislation that reserves some new medical marijuana business licenses for people who were previously incarcerated for drug-related offenses — the latest effort by city lawmakers to bolster equity…

D.C. is recovering from a deadly weekend, during which 11 people were shot, including a 7-year-old girl, just as it’s about to kick off its yearly effort to curb summer crime.

Mayor Muriel Bowser released updated mask rules for fully vaccinated people over the weekend after a staff error caused confusion about changes to the face covering mandate.

WASHINGTON — A D.C. pediatrician is recruiting 100 children for a Novavax COVID vaccine clinical trial.

D.C. leaders are reacting to word that the District’s crime lab is now fully unaccredited. While Mayor Muriel Bowser affirms the lab has appealed the decision, the future of lab operations is in question.

The District launched a new website today meant to act as a clearinghouse for residents’ vaccination records from the flu to tetanus and the coronavirus.

D.C. jail inmates, who have been subjected to a strict lockdown since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, are finally getting some relief, though not much: After more than a year of being kept in their cells for 23 hours a day as a…

District officials launched their annual summer crime prevention initiative against the backdrop of a soaring homicide rate and on the heels of a particularly bloody weekend in the city.

Among the five largest universities in the District, GWU is the only to host online-only commencement programs

DC is of course not a state, let alone a country, but Federalist assistant editor Kylee Zempel recently wrote a piece explaining why the “third world country of Washington DC” does not deserve statehood.