2022

The last time Althea Littles spoke to her son Treyvon was two days before he died. Littles says they were talking about plans for his upcoming release from the D.C. Jail: what he wanted her to cook, who was going to pick him up. Her son…

The D.C. Peace Academy recognized its first class of violence interrupters to graduate from a program committed to raising up frontline workers in communities battling rising homicide rates.

The calendar says a new school year is about to begin. But looking at the data, it is clear that the challenges our students, schools and families have faced over the past two years remain the same.

City government workers in the District can no longer be punished for choosing not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a D.C. Superior Court judge who effectively threw out the COVID-19 vaccine mandate that applied to all D.C.…

While Casa Ruby in D.C. faced funding cuts and allegations of financial irregularities, its founder, Ruby Corado, focused on consolidating the growth of a new organization she called Casa Ruby, El Salvador Chapter.

A D.C. judge ruled Thursday that Mayor Muriel Bowser can no longer require that D.C. government employees get a COVID-19 vaccine, unraveling a mandate that applied to the city’s workforce of more than 30,000.

A D.C. Superior Court judge on Thursday said the vaccination mandate Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) imposed on city government workers earlier this year was unlawful in response to opposition from the D.C. police union.

Privately funded program is meant to train those who mediate conflicts on the streets of D.C.

Bailey Reavis, of Adams Morgan, long assumed she would never pay off her student debt. She’d enrolled in the University of Colorado Boulder as an in-state student to minimize her debt. Since graduating eight years ago, Reavis has been…

Seven years ago, the District of Columbia made an ambitious commitment: It would aim to eliminate traffic deaths in the city by 2024. Christened Vision Zero, the program prompted other cities and jurisdictions in the region to follow,…

The results of Tuesday's primary election in New York City ensure a change in the top Democrat on the House committee that has oversight of the District. Meanwhile, the outcome of November's election will determine what their role is,…

President Biden yesterday announced the cancellation of up to $10,000 in federal student loans and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients, offering some relief to borrowers in our area.

The U.S. Court of Appeals rejected each of the union’s arguments against a law aimed at improving police accountability.

D.C. schools Chancellor Lewis Ferebee spent the morning with first-graders and parents at C.W. Harris Elementary School on Wednesday, where he announced a new initiative to improve literacy.

About 40 migrant children could enroll in D.C. public schools, the city schools chief said Wednesday after an announcement from the mayor that school-aged children who arrive on buses from the southern border can attend classes in the…

Because of a lack of support, the children won’t be starting school on time, and some will struggle to attend at all, advocates say

Federal appellate judges rejected the D.C. police union’s challenge of a law that gives the Metropolitan Police Department more power over police disciplinary processes. The law, originally passed in 2020, strips police discipline from…

A national restaurant trade group and owners of some local restaurant chains are waging a high-stakes and last-ditch legal battle to prevent D.C. residents from voting on whether the city should do away with the tipped wage.

Some D.C. public school students may return next week to buildings that lack working heating and cooling systems. Additionally, some students may be unable to return at all to classes due to missing key vaccination requirements.