2018

The Smithsonian Institution says it will submit a “revised project later this fall”

WASHINGTON — Hours after Friday’s crash between two fire engines responding to an apartment fire, D.C.’s fire chief has ordered a change in protocol to lessen the chance of apparatus colliding on the way to a fire scene.

Two centuries before Georgetown was entertaining the notion of $1,500/square-foot condos, it was an industrial port town where the brick streets and alley dwellings were frowned upon and enslaved and free Black populations lived in close…

WASHINGTON — Pepco is defending plans to build an electrical substation near a school in D.C.’s Mt. Vernon neighborhood, on a lot currently hosting a community garden.

The D.C. Auditor’s office says the District’s principals are the most stressed in the nation, and the policy of only giving school leaders one-year contracts is largely to blame. The report, commissioned in response to a request from the…

The District has issued a stop-work order on the $50 million redevelopment of the Franklin School, a publicly owned historic building downtown that developers are transforming into the city’s first-ever language arts museum, after officials…

It was a shocking crime in a wealthy Washington, D.C., neighborhood. Firefighters responded to a 911 call for a house on fire, but inside they found the bodies of three members of the Savopoulos family and their housekeeper, tortured and…

WASHINGTON - The personal information for 2,000 homeless D.C. students was mistakenly published online and accessible for six months, school officials said. According to D.C. Public Schools, the accidental disclosure took place after a…

On Sept. 26, District officials will cut the ribbon on the first new family homeless shelter to open as a replacement for the derelict D.C. General shelter, which is slated to close this fall. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration announced…

Public schedules of politicians can be mundane. It’s not uncommon for a daily item to read, “There are no public events scheduled.” And no politician is going to disclose secret, questionable, or super sensitive meetings. But it is uncommon…

While Mayor Muriel Bowser has made it clear that she wants the District to once again house a football team within the city, she faces at least as much competition as the NFC East. Washington's football team decamped for Landover, Md. after…

A transgender woman has dropped a discrimination complaint against a downtown D.C. restaurant that forced her to leave its premises in June because she used the women’s restroom after it agreed to take a series of actions in support of the…