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Mary Gerace has lived in the District since 1963 and loves it. But at 73, she worries that someday she may become too frail to stay in the rent-controlled third-floor walk-up apartment in Glover Park where she has lived for 42 years. Then,…

Hack. Hack. Hack. The tattooed ex-boxer hacked at the cutting board with a 10-inch chef’s knife. “No. That’s not right,” chef Carletta Fletcher said, taking the knife and grimacing at the juicy green swamp he’d made out of a roll of basil…

Good Tuesday morning. Today the DC Council votes for the final time on the fiscal 2020 budget. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson’s attempt to use millions from Events DC’s reserves to make urgent public housing repairs is still being…

Recycling isn’t exactly thriving in the nation’s capital. D.C.’s waste diversion rate (the percentage of waste diverted from the landfill or incinerator by recycling or other efforts) hovers around 23%. San Francisco’s rate is 80%, and…

An estimated $16 million per year would fund social services instead, under amendment expected to pass.

Teddy Palmore had a decision. “I was deciding between one ‘T’ or two ‘Ts’ and I guess I decided right,” Palmore said.

Maurice Scott broke into bashful smiles as he talked about the monuments and museums of his hometown in a video produced at Somerset Prep DC, the charter school in Southeast Washington where he was in ninth grade.

The D.C. Council could vote soon on funding two public hospitals at once.

Police are actively searching for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Southeast D.C. teenager killed near his school on Sunday morning.

Memorial Day is when we honor those who wore a uniform and died defending our country. But here was Leroy Tonic, very much alive Friday afternoon at the District Building, the guest of honor in a ceremony thanking him for his service…

D.C. LAWMAKERS have finally decided to do something about the wasteful spending at the troubled public hospital in Southeast. We wish we could applaud the move to cap spending and eventually close the hospital, but it is long overdue and —…

An ongoing dispute between District lawmakers and the city’s chief financial officer threatens to derail tens of millions of dollars in proposed renovations to dangerously neglected public housing complexes.

Five new charter schools are expected to open in the District for the 2020-2021 academic year despite concerns that they could strain city resources and result in even more empty seats at existing middle and high schools that struggle to…

The nominating committee hasn’t even met, but Paul Smedberg has already emerged as the front-runner to succeed Jack Evans as chair of the Metro board, officials said Friday.

Surrounded by loved ones he didn’t expect to see gathered at the Wilson Building, Leroy Tonic, 95, was celebrated and honored on Friday as the last-surviving D.C. government employee who served in World War II.

METRO HAS concluded its investigation into the actions of Jack Evans (D), the District’s Ward 2 council member who serves as board chairman. What the inquiry concluded and how it was conducted remain a mystery. Such secrecy is clearly…

There are cracks in the World War II Memorial on the National Mall, and they’re getting bigger. They include a 20-foot-long “hairline fracture” in one of the main pillars in the Atlantic section of the memorial, as well as smaller cracks…

Walter C. Pierce Community Park in Adams Morgan is a much-used, much-loved city park. The D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation plans to spend about $800,000 in changes there this fall. The projects include a new playground, dog-park…

District officials are investing a fresh coat of paint in the hopes of keeping pedestrians safer. They recently announced investment in crosswalk upkeep and expansion.

On the southwest corner of Fort Reno Park in Tenleytown sits an empty and abandoned building. Built in 1937 and known as the Chesapeake House, this two-story, five-sided brick building is now a shell of its former self, with boarded-up…