The Metropolitan Police Department is responding to a barricade situation in southeast D.C. on Wednesday morning.

Most D.C.-area parents say their students are safe from violence in schools, according to a recent Post-Schar School poll.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms will pop up in the afternoon west of I-81 and then move eastward through the evening. Some of these storms will pack a punch, with the potential for strong winds ...

Texas county where campers died was denied money to boost warning systems ...

WASHINGTON — The District is sizzling, and city officials are urging residents to take precautions as an Extreme Heat Alert remains in effect until 8 p.m. Tuesday. Temperatures across D.C. are ...

After flash flooding struck Texas, the NWS came under fire from local officials who criticized what they described as ...

NWS says Flash Flood Warnings were issued on July 3 and early July 4 in Central Texas, giving more than three hours of ...

Hours before a massive wall of floodwater barreled down a river in the heart of Texas Hill Country before sunrise on Friday, ...

A former D.C. Public Schools official could spend over a decade in prison after she was convicted of bribery and wire fraud. The former contract specialist at DCPS, Dana Garnett, 61, would steer ...

Members of the Jewish community are especially on heightened alert after last month’s lone wolf attack at the Capital Jewish Museum, where two Israeli embassy staffers were killed. There’s increased ...

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As the DC Council prepares for its next legislative meeting on July 1, these measures headline an agenda aimed at simultaneously elevating public safety and maintaining the delicate calibration of ...