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Rents along the popular dining corridor have doubled over the past 10 years

“There are students who have been able to graduate without knowing how to read. Functionally illiterate,” one educator said.

Webcast, road renaming feature unsung black women in space program

A museum and a digital archive are two ideas.

At the top of the year, UrbanTurf reported on the plans for the next phase of the Market Terminal development near Union Market (map). Now, one of the residential buildings and its abutting park have a new look.

“Running is just such a big part of my life. It’s part of my routine. It’s right up there with eating and breathing.”

It’s been 100 years since the “Red Summer of 1919,” which describes a block of time when racial violence and unrest broke out in different cities across the United States.

It just got a little easier for D.C. residents to recycle unwanted electronic equipment.

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — From behind bars in prisons all over the country, inmates through the Justice Arts Coalition are creating some amazing artwork that’s currently on display at RhizomeDC in Northwest D.C.

The District has a fleet of passenger vans picking people up in certain neighborhoods.

Teachers and students at Hendley Elementary were preparing for an end-of-the-year movie night when a bullet broke a window in the lobby of the building Wednesday afternoon.

D.C. OFFICIALS have boasted for the past year or so that the city was among the fastest in the country in getting an upgrade of its credit rating to the top level. They patted themselves on the back for their sound fiscal management. But…

They were called “human computers.” Now, the street outside NASA’s D.C. headquarters honors their legacy as the women who helped send humans to the moon.

Starting Saturday, a very unusual broadcast will stream live to TVs at a downtown hotel and a Union Market event space. A mashup of music and videos — including talks by black intellectuals, news footage and home videos — “BLKNWS” aims to…

When the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s board of trustees met on June 12, 1989, the first order of business was a 1770 painting by John Singleton Copley. Its condition was fine, its cost was appropriate ($1.6 million) and its acquisition would…

DC visual artist Robin Bell projected the album art and "#DontMuteDC" on U Street Tuesday night.

The deputy chancellor of D.C. Public Schools said Wednesday that the school system would be reviewing its relationship with a company that provides before- and after-school programs at a number of schools, after an employee was accused of…

The plaza would be built above car lanes on Connecticut Avenue NW

A piece of a D.C. street has been renamed to honor three black women who were heroes of the space program.

D.C. Fire and EMS was on the scene of a collapsed building on the 1300 block of 13th Street NW Wednesday, according to department spokesperson Vito Maggiolo. The building appears to have been a three-story row house that was under…