2018

Our beloved RFK has had its “glory days.” It is time for its home-going — not homecoming.

A 7-year-old girl was pulled unconscious from the bottom of a crowded District pool Monday by another swimmer and had to be resuscitated by pool staff members, said officials and witnesses. The incident rattled swimmers and raised concerns…

WASHINGTON — The first phase of the District Department of Transportation’s work on the I-295 interchange with Malcolm X Avenue Southeast starts on Tuesday, Sept. 4. The project will take at least three years, said Diyar Bozkurt, the…

As part of an effort to call attention to a persistent crime, D.C. police recently surveyed more than 300 cars on Capitol Hill and in nearby neighborhoods, finding a large proportion with valuables in sight, unlocked doors or both.

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine is suing a Florida-based electrical contractor that has worked on some of the city’s most high-profile construction projects, saying the company is at the heart of the largest wage theft case his office…

A man scolded the archbishop of Washington in church Sunday morning before storming out as the archbishop asked parishioners to keep Pope Francis in their prayers. Cardinal Donald Wuerl installed a new pastor at Annunciation Catholic Church…

On Wednesday afternoon, when the city felt trapped inside a soup cauldron, Yvana Petros, 21, crouched alongside H Street NW and dug her fingers into a patch of soil. She and twenty or so other George Washington University students had…

It’s hard to imagine a hotter intersection in residential Washington than Eighth and Yuma streets SE, where it’s all sun and concrete, and where just about the only person walking on another dangerously hot day was Vanessa Phillips. She has…

Malonda Mines said she woke her 6-year-old daughter before the sun rose, making sure she was dressed in her new uniform by the time the school bus was scheduled to arrive on the first day of classes. But the city school bus never showed…

You might think that one person who would appreciate weather above 95 degrees — with humidity making it feel like 105 — would be a guy selling ice cream. But alas. “If too much hot, no business,” says Habtom Mengesha, whose ice cream truck…

D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. Jessica Hawkins, who in March 2015 became the first transgender person to be named as supervisor of the department’s LGBT Liaison Unit, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant and assigned to a…

After about 150 years of being a beacon of spirituality and social justice in the Shaw community, Lincoln Temple United Church of Christ will be closing its doors because one of the city’s oldest African American congregations is…

During a news conference at Bancroft Elementary School in Northwest this month, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced a third consecutive year of gains on the PARCC assessment, a measurement of college readiness in math and English that…

When it opened in 2011, the $18 million Tenley-Friendship Library was the crown jewel of the District’s crop of new public libraries. The Washington Post’s architecture critic hailed it at as “one of the best things for D.C. in decades.” It…

We need community-based solutions and partnerships to stem the tide of teacher shortages that lead to increased class sizes, uncertified teachers and teachers assigned outside their subject area. We are trying out a unique program we…

Everyone deserves a second chance. That includes the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which has the chance to reconsider its ruling that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority can ban the Catholic…

DISTRICT RESIDENTS can enjoy frozen yogurt at Menchie’s, fresh salads at Sweetgreen or craft beer at the Bruery Store — but not if they want to pay with cash. These establishments, along with many others in the city, have opted to only…