The Instagram account run by a Ward 8 resident is part citizen journalism and part community forum — and the D.C. government thinks it can help tamp down on gun violence.

“Sometimes the media only shows up when there’s tragedy. We want to spotlight those doing positive work in our community now.”

From the best places to eat to local parks to visit, D.C. TikTok users are making videos to show all the reasons why they love the District.

Some rumors claimed authorities shut down cellphone signals in order to cover up violent police reprisals. That’s shocking, but fake.

University officials say they are looking into life-threatening messages posted to social media targeting the campus community.

Officials tracked Poalo Aldorasi to Washington state, in part, by using a video of his rental car that he posted to social media.

AlphaVu has changed the title and salary since then.

Increasingly residents are just as likely to get the word directly from the mayor herself (or her communications team, anyway).

Alexander Buckley, 22, pleaded guilty in June to the second-degree murder of Siobhan Lee, a recent high school graduate from Prince George’s County.

Three new accounts were created for updates about Metrorail, bus and Metro Transit Police.