2023

Hundreds of D.C. middle school students in Wards 7 and 8 will be getting educational and financial support from a $21 million U.S. Department of Education grant that officials say will boost college enrollment and graduation rates in…

The Education Department grant will fund coaching, workshops and $22,000 in scholarships for D.C. middle-schoolers

D.C. Public Schools has hundreds of migrant students on its class rosters, but is struggling to provide the high-quality help the students need.

When a robber pointed a gun at Stephanie Traub’s forehead and demanded her purse and car keys, she didn’t know a U.S. congressman had been carjacked at gunpoint an hour earlier.

Metro's leadership has spoken for months about the budget shortfalls confronting the area's transit agency starting with the next fiscal year, but DC officials today cited a need for the region to reach initial decisions by December at…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser marked the milestone while addressing mounting public pressure for her administration to go further in its response to rising overdose deaths

D.C.’s first sobering center, or “stabilization” center, opens this week to provide short-term care for people experiencing a substance-use crisis or emergency.

‘Tis the season, when crews armed with leaf blowers and rakes roam the District, collecting nature’s bounty of compostable foliage. In other words, leaf sweeping season. This year, the D.C. Department of Public Works is trying out a new,…

Contracting woes have held up the Council’s independent probe of the sexual harassment scandal that enveloped Bowser’s administration.

Matthew Frumin’s idea to buy the old Whittle campus for MacArthur High School has received mixed reviews

An independent investigation into the John Falcicchio sexual harassment scandal has failed to launch.

Mayor Muriel Bowser cut the ribbon this morning on a new Stabilization Center, a 24/7 health care facility at 35 K St. NW that will assist individuals experiencing substance use disorder while providing an alternative to ER visits for…

With crime a top concern among Americans, cities and states are looking back at the reforms many embraced following the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. The trick will be avoiding overcorrection, holding police…

D.C. cops are working so much overtime that the mayor needs to shuffle more than $16 million in funding to cover their budget.

For the last two years, students at Kramer Middle School in D.C. have had the opportunity to go on trips for college tours.

A DC Council roundtable yesterday elicited calls for Mayor Muriel Bowser's administration to do more to tackle the District's opioid crisis and reverse the surge of fatal overdoses in recent years.

The opioid crisis should command more of mayor’s attention, advocates said, as a commission begins to decide how to use $80 million in settlement dollars

More than a dozen residents, doctors, and public health professionals testified before the D.C. Council on Thursday, supporting a long-held demand that Mayor Muriel Bowser declare a public health emergency in response to the city’s…

Medical providers at Unity Health Care, the District’s largest federally-qualified health center that serves tens of thousands of the city’s most vulnerable patients, are trying to form a union.