2023

The Anacostia River tends to be better known for urban pollution than for wildlife. But in recent years, some species have been making a comeback around the river — an indicator of the Anacostia’s improving health. Recent photos from…

With the National Park Service slated to clear the McPherson Square homeless encampment tomorrow, the chair of the DC Council's Housing Committee and four other council members are urging the federal government to delay its plans.

People trying to stop the clearing of a homeless encampment in D.C. showed up at the U.S. Department of the Interior on Monday to protest.

On Monday, the ribbon was cut on The Ethel, a new a new building in Southeast D.C.’s East Hill neighborhood that will provide 100 units for D.C. residents who recently had no place to call home.

DCPS hasn’t been sending a variety of contracts to the Council for review as required, including a school meals deal of interest to parents.

District leaders Monday cut the ribbon on a new 100-unit apartment building that will offer permanent supportive living for the city’s homeless, two days before the National Park Service plans to clear a large tent encampment in McPherson…

The move upset some juvenile justice advocates, who said they had been impressed with Hilary Cairns’s work

Registered nurses at the George Washington University Hospital are working to form a union, with the D.C. Nurses Association as its bargaining representative, according to DCNA executive director Edward Smith.

Mayor Muriel Bowser joined former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend this morning to celebrate the opening of The Ethel, an apartment building in Hill East that will house people formerly experiencing homelessness.

For the past several months, the D.C. State Board of Education has been drafting a new set of social studies standards for the city’s 96,000 students, an exercise that hasn’t been done since 2006.

D.C.'s public school system is under fire after awarding multimillion-dollar contracts to food service and other vendors, repeatedly flouting a city law that requires approval from lawmakers.

On a February morning, a 54-year-old resident of the McPherson Square homeless encampment shuffles around her tent, grabbing wrappers and dropping them in a nearby trash receptacle. She doesn’t feel comfortable coming out at night, when…

The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is launching a reality television program called The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist that will air on MTV and the Smithsonian Channel this spring.

Union organizers at Union Kitchen locations in the D.C. region have settled a dispute with the food accelerator and retailer, which officials said had engaged in union-busting tactics outlined in an extensive complaint last fall.

Congress is closer to overturning a D.C. law for the first time since 1991, after the House on Thursday approved blocking controversial reforms to the city’s criminal code. And Mayor Muriel Bowser might be fine with that.

Staffing shortages are hampering efforts to house the dozens of people living in the District’s largest homeless encampment, as the National Park Service readies to shut down McPherson Square at the city’s behest on Wednesday.

With about 100 beds in the city's homeless shelters available but unused each night, the DC Department of Human Services says there's no danger of maxing out the system's capacity, but advocates are predicting that the District may indeed…