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For years, local officials and residents have raised alarms over mishandled dispatches by the District’s Office of Unified Communications, which handles the city’s 911 calls. A recent error during a water-rescue operation in the Potomac…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser enjoyed about two minutes in the national spotlight Monday, when she introduced family members of George Floyd in a prerecorded speech that aired during the Democratic National Convention. But reception was chilly…

Dionte Coley was waiting for the bus near Black Lives Matter Plaza on Tuesday, June 23, when he says police approached him. Without warning, Coley says, the officers started aggressively pushing him and others who were nearby, clearing…

The coronavirus’s late-winter attack on the national capital region came from multiple, separate introductions, and the pathogen quickly spread among people who had not traveled outside the region recently or had known contact with…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants the city council to move forward with its second vote next month to approve funding for a new hospital at the center of an ethics investigation.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser spoke on night one of the Democratic National Convention on why she created Black Lives Matter Plaza and backs the Biden/Harris ticket.

The trailblazer is also the first single mother in that role.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said that she has several concerns about the upcoming general election, emphasizing worries about how inefficient the U.S. Postal Service could be in delivering mail-in ballots.

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday lambasted President Trump for the “photo op” near historic St. John’s Church on June 1 after law enforcement had cleared the area of protesters.

Prosecutors in D.C. have declined to bring charges against most of the 41 people arrested in a disturbance in Adams Morgan last week that sparked a large police response and which authorities had characterized as a riot.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Zookeepers at Washington’s National Zoo are on furry black-and-white baby watch after concluding that venerable giant panda matriarch Mei Ziang is pregnant and could give birth this week. It’s a welcome bit of good news…

Sunday was supposed to be the day Richard Bangura left for Temple University, embarking on studies he hoped would lead to a law degree.

Analysis of contact tracing cases in the District shows many new infections never encountered someone with symptoms.

Happy Monday. City Administrator Rashad Young left his post abruptly on Friday as he worked out details for a job at Howard University, the school with which his office recently negotiated for a new hospital to be built thanks to tax…

Another 15 percent came from people who attended gatherings of more than five people.

In June, days after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled the massive “Black Lives Matter” mural that attracted international attention, local activists added their own message.

When a crowd assembled in Oxon Run Park in Southeast Washington for a concert last month, residents accused authorities of ignoring violations of the mayor’s orders restricting mass gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic.

D.C. is ramping up its contact tracing efforts to limit the spread of novel coronavirus infections, which have plateaued in recent days across the Washington region.

In what the transit agency calls the “largest ramp-up” in its 44-year history, Metro is touting a return to pre-pandemic levels, with a restoration of most rail and bus services and reduced wait times.

Amid stories of delayed mail deliveries, concerns over the new Postmaster General’s plan for the U.S. Postal Service, and President Donald Trump’s repeated comments deriding voting by mail, it’d be natural for anyone opting to vote from…