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Lawmakers also take aim at proposed subsidy for United Medical Center

The future of a vacant school that has emerged as a symbolic battleground over the direction of the District’s public education system was settled Tuesday after two hours of fiery debate among D.C. Council members.

City leaders highlighted the victims from an especially violent Memorial Day in their appeal to prioritize funding for D.C.’s only hospital east of the Anacostia River.

The unofficial start to summer began with a surge of violence over the Memorial Day weekend that included fatal shootings in Southeast Washington and five people wounded by gunfire at an entrance to a recreation center pool.

Most of the money would come from D.C.’s sports and entertainment authority

The D.C. Council is giving United Medical Center about $22 million as part of the new District budget, up from the $15 million subsidy cap that was passed at a first budget reading two weeks ago.

Three people, including a 15-year-old high school freshman, were killed over the holiday weekend, stoking community concerns of a possible repeat of last year’s spike in deadly violence.

The D.C. Council has signed off on a new budget after weeks of debate, finding more funding for affordable housing programs and public housing repairs by relying on a slew of tax changes and even some cash drawn from the agency managing…

Mayor Muriel Bowser's plan to increase taxes on commercial property to build new affordable housing has passed the D.C. Council, despite opposition from the development community and the council chairman.

After a long holiday weekend that included the Sunday shooting death of 15-year-old Maurice Scott near his Somerset Prep D.C. charter school and the Monday shooting that injured five in Barry Farm, police Chief Peter Newsham said he trusts…

The D.C. Council spent nearly two hours on the day of its second budget vote once again in a fierce debate about two D.C. schools—Banneker Senior High School and a potential Shaw Middle School—that touches on some of the city’s most…

The D.C. Council on Tuesday added millions to subsidize the District’s only public hospital and identified a new funding resource to repair the city’s deteriorated public housing stock with the final passage of a $15.5 billion budget for…

Lonnie Bunch, the Smithsonian Institution's new secretary, says one of his first goals leading the nearly 175-year-old cultural institution will be creating what he refers to as “the virtual Smithsonian.”

Earlier this year, the development team creating a new mixed-income community at the site of the Sursum Corda Cooperative unveiled a different look for the proposed project. Now, revised plans would put more eyes on the street.

They exchanged more than 1,000 text messages in four months. Police said she was selling sex around the District’s Logan and Thomas circles. They said he was her pimp.

The 50-year-old Embassy of Australia building on D.C.’s Scott Circle will close in November ahead of its demolition and the construction of its 133,000-square-foot replacement.

A new pilot is set to take the helm at the Smithsonian Institution.

Lonnie G. Bunch III — the dynamic founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture — has been appointed secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, becoming the first African American leader in…

At a recent panel discussion entitled “The Future of Everything,” Ted Leonsis talked about how gambling is going to fundamentally change the way fans watch sports, whether they’re in the arena or watching from elsewhere.

Library officials will discuss initial design concepts and other project details