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High schools suffered the most, with 60 percent of older students missing weeks of school

Chronic absenteeism and truancy rates improved slightly in D.C. schools, but is still significantly higher than pre-pandemic levels, according to new data on the 2022-2023 school year.

Six years ago, as Alfred Swailes was entering retirement, he started to think: Would he ever be able to own a home in the city where he spent his whole life?

On December 2, 1997, 26 years ago this week, the MCI Center opened at the corner of F and 6th Streets Northwest in the District’s Chinatown neighborhood. City officials celebrated, hoping the arena would be a catalyst for revitalizing the…

D.C. traffic deaths are up more than 60% this year from the same time in 2022, reaching the highest total in 16 years.

D.C.’s Office of the Attorney General is warning retailers such as grocery stores and convenience stores to not discriminate against residents who are paying for food with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

Dozens of D.C. residents, business owners and activists on Wednesday sounded off at a hearing on a crime and policing bill introduced last month by Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), offering mixed opinions on its wide-ranging provisions as…

In its past life, the Webster School in downtown Washington had been many things: a segregated school for White children built in 1882, an “Americanization” school for assimilating immigrants after World War I, a rehabilitation school for…

A new D.C. Council bill would transfer some 911 dispatching responsibilities away from the troubled Office of Unified Communications and back to the D.C. fire department. The bill, which Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau unveiled…

Hanlon believes Pinto improperly mixed Council and campaign business, filing complaints just as her reelection bid heats up.

The Washington Teachers’ Union (WTU) says timely negotiations on a new contract are needed to address issues of teacher retention and other after-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

After losing their children to gun violence, these moms turned their ‘pain into purpose,’ performing in a play to empower and uplift other grieving women.

A D.C. Council proposal would establish pedestrian corridors starting in 2026, closing roads to cars for at least some hours each week

WASHINGTON (AP) — Though it’s no longer the homicide capital of the United States, the nation’s capital is witnessing a multiyear spike in the number of homicides but solving far fewer of them.

The District has doubled its number of traffic cameras this fall, and officials say plans include adding another 140 devices before the end of March as part of a large-scale modernization and expansion of the city’s automated traffic…

Weak code enforcement and high housing costs can strand families in the city’s rapid rehousing program in terrible living conditions

Water is flowing in the century-old Dupont Circle Fountain once again following the completion of a major rehabilitation project, the National Park Service shared in a post on X on Tuesday.

Free COVID-19 rapid tests are back and available for pick-up at D.C. Public Libraries again, just in time for Thanksgiving.

Weak government oversight allows property owners to evade rent control and unlawfully raise rents on working-class Washingtonians.

The high school students wrote books about climate change, extreme weather and grief