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D.C. lawmakers will vote Tuesday on a plan to redraw the boundaries of the city’s wards, making the fast-growing Navy Yard neighborhood a part of the historically low-income Ward 8 and the easternmost section of Capitol Hill a part of Ward…

Latino educators remain sparse, even in the city’s largely Latino schools

Vincent C. Gray, a member of the D.C. Council and a former mayor of the District, suffered a stroke after checking himself into a hospital over the weekend, his council office said Monday night.

D.C. council member Vincent Gray was hospitalized for bronchitis over the weekend, but a spokesperson said he is feeling well and eager to go home.

Wilson High School could soon have a new name. The council is expected to make its first vote on a bill designating the Northwest D.C. school as Jackson-Reed High School on Tuesday morning.

After months of parents and D.C. council members expressing frustration with the city’s saliva-based coronavirus testing program, officials are evaluating alternative testing options for prekindergarten students.

The new Twitter account looked like it came from a smiling blond woman who lives in D.C., retweeting neighborhood news about a Thanksgiving giveaway, a bald eagle sighting and bike lanes near Lincoln Park.

Street artist Omaid Sharifi didn’t want to move from Afghanistan to Northern Virginia three months ago — but the Taliban had other plans.

Officials from the Department of Public Works were brought in front of the D.C. Council Monday to explain why their traffic enforcement program is lacking.

A Harris Teeter grocery store that was hailed as a sign of progress for the Hill East neighborhood when it opened nearly 15 years ago will close permanently at the end of the year.

Weeks after its chairman resigned because of a contracting scandal, the D.C. Housing Authority is scrambling to extend the terms of three members of its Board of Commissioners whose seats expired Oct. 1, after the agency failed to hold…

A series of missteps is once again prompting questions about the D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership, the first of which is whether anyone at the agency knows how to set a calendar reminder.

Diners can weigh in by completing a single-question survey by Friday, Dec. 10 at 9 a.m.

While Bob Dole is known for his decades as a senator on Capital Hill and his presidential bid in 1996, he was also a decorated World War II veteran and helped establish a memorial to that war’s veterans on the National Mall.

Tamales cooked by Doña Rosa. Fresh fruits and vegetables grown by Omar Flores and José Luis López. Watercolors by Anny Calderón, necklaces designed by Martha Leuro, empanadas cooked by Diana Torres, cream punch by Paula Rodríguez, and…

Stephanie Hulbert-Sargent’s first pop-up featuring comforting Italian dishes is planned for Dec. 12 at Sushi Capitol.

In 2020, fatal opioid overdoses in the D.C. area surged dramatically — in some cases, to the highest levels ever recorded.

The Social Media Caucus in D.C. was created as a counterweight to the inundation of social media that may normalize violence or trigger anger or anxiety from past trauma teens have witnessed in their lives.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and her top officials are in Las Vegas Monday, wooing retailers and developers at a major conference.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine endorsed in the Ward 5 D.C. Council race on Monday, backing the president of the State Board of Education, Zachary Parker.