When D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser presented next year’s budget to the D.C. Council, she included $500 million in cuts to services, as well as some tax increases. Bowser said part of the reason she was making such deep cuts to programs such as the Early Childhood Education Pay Equity Fund was a last-minute requirement from the District’s CFO, Glenn Lee,...

The National Park Service announced plans to begin rehabilitation of the historic Rock Creek Park golf course later this year — but the rehab is not without controversy.

The D.C. Police Department is launching a new team of crime fighters they’re calling Community Safety Ambassadors. They won’t have guns or badges, but they might be the first to show up when you call 911, depending on how serious the problem is.

The D.C. government launched a program to help pay for automated external defibrillators for locations like apartment buildings and houses of worship, especially in African American neighborhoods. Sgt. Terrika Hooks, a paramedic with D.C. Fire and EMS, is part of the team helping raise awareness about CPR and having AEDs in more places. She’s trained to save lives, but...

For the first time in years, D.C. police expect to have more officers next fiscal year than they had the previous one. The Metropolitan Police Department — like other departments across the country — has been having trouble keeping up with staffing. For the past 10 years, MPD has been unable to hire enough new officers to keep up with…

After weeks of delays, D.C.’s real-time crime center is open, and leaders want residents and businesses to register their security cameras with police. The center is a hub for technology like shot spotters, license-plate readers, traffic cameras and security cameras funneled through a command center at police headquarters. By registering security cameras with police, residents and businesses are not...

One of the programs targeted for cuts in D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed budget is emergency rental assistance the administration says has been abused by people who don’t really need the help. Thousands of D.C. residents have been able to stay in their homes thanks to help from the city’s emergency rental assistance program (ERAP), but Bowser proposed slashing...

A high-ranking D.C. official is under investigation after his ex-wife reported he illegally entered her home and harassed her. Assistant City Administrator Chris Rodriguez’s ex-wife called police Friday, according to a police report. In a civil protection order filed after Friday’s incident, she told the court Rodriguez entered her bedroom and shouted and cursed at her and refused to...

Bowser said she can feel the relief around the city now that the Caps and Wizards will no longer be relocating to Northern Virginia.

D.C. Councilmember Christina Henderson became emotional while talking about programs that may receive cuts. “It feels as though we are proposing to balance this budget on the backs of Black and brown women,” she said. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.