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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser appointed Linda Harllee Harper as the city’s first gun violence prevention director during a news conference Thursday.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser confirmed several new cabinet appointments on Thursday, and announced a new position in the District: Gun Violence Prevention Coordinator.

U.S. Army officials say “credible” threats to military assets on the Southwest Waterfront warrant new restrictions on water use along Fort McNair near D.C.’s bustling Wharf neighborhood.

Like a corridor in the northeast section of DC, the residential development pipeline along 14th Street has far fewer units on the boards than it did five years ago, and just as soon as units enter the pipeline these days, others deliver. …

More than 240,000 students have experienced gun violence at their school since Columbine in 1999. For the students whose schools have been spared, drills meant to simulate and prepare for the experience ensure that the threat is…

As the District’s public school system prepares to resume in-person learning on Monday, many charter schools say they will not bring their students back at the same pace — despite the mayor’s call for them to reopen their buildings.

Next week will mark a milestone for D.C. students as the city’s public school system reopens for in-person learning amid the ongoing pandemic — and education leaders are urging families to be aware of their responsibilities.

The effort to get more vaccines to the DC communities hardest hit by the coronavirus in terms of fatalities and cases isn't going very smoothly.

The Office of Contracting and Procurement continues to skirt the law while Medicaid beneficiaries pay the price.

Are two people really needed to book one appointment?

While Washingtonians want President Biden to push for statehood, they also want his administration to help the city by providing economic security for low-income and working-class residents, creating more affordable housing and improving…

The chairman of the union representing the U.S. Capitol Police lambasted the agency’s leadership Wednesday after the acting chief’s testimony on Capitol Hill about its response to this month’s attack on the Capitol building.

Since moving into and later purchasing the three small buildings in Anacostia that it uses as its headquarters and shares with others, the LGBTQ youth-run company and community services center Check It Enterprises has maintained and…

The D.C. Department of Human Services’s fourth annual A Home for the Holidays campaign helped 218 families and 117 singles in the shelter system sign leases for permanent housing between Nov. 15 and Jan. 15. The initiative sought to…

Immediate relief could be on the way for about 500 D.C. tenants who have had eviction cases brought against them since the COVID-19 pandemic started, due to an appeal by D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine.

In its report, “20 Years of Hate,” published in December, the National Coalition for the Homeless analyzed the conditions around bias-motivated crimes against people experiencing homelessness. The report documented all known incidents and…

The physical toll on officers who defended the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack by a pro-Trump mob is becoming clearer, with reports by police officials and federal prosecutors indicating that about 140 officers were injured, the head…

The words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that for more than six months have looked out over protests, celebrations and gaggles of tourists in Black Lives Matter Plaza were taken apart Wednesday, piece by piece.

In the corner of a D.C. home sit four stacks of handwritten cards.

The statistics make clear that Washington, D.C. experienced four-straight years of a decrease in murder, from 144 in 2008, to 88 in 2012. There were many reasons for this steady decline, including community organizations like my former…