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Members of the Washington Teachers' Union voted against a strike Tuesday a week after D.C. Public Schools students and teachers began returning to classrooms in larger numbers.

The Washington Teachers’ Union has voted against authorizing a strike, but in a letter to D.C. officials, members said they want a way to address emergency issues in a timely manner.

A former D.C. violence interrupter whose arrest made headlines last year is now cleared of the charges. A judge found there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Cotey Wynn with a 2017 killing in Northeast.

The Washington Teachers’ Union voted Tuesday against authorizing a strike, with the union’s lawyer informing a judge that the more than 4,000-member group has no plans to participate in a strike or work stoppage.

WHEN D.C. ended last year with more homicides than there had been in 15 years, we criticized city officials for giving mere lip service to the epidemic of gun violence instead of treating it like the public health emergency it is. So the…

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, no one is going inside the Anacostia Community Museum. So why not take an exhibit that was supposed to be within that Smithsonian museum’s walls and move it without?

There are about four months left in D.C.’s school year, and some senior football players are growing nervous.

The D.C. police department is launching a task force to take on the rise of carjackings. The District is one of a handful of cities across the U.S. experiencing a spike in the crime.

After failing lots of laid off workers during the pandemic, the department is making an $11 million investment.

Acting D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee has created a task force to tamp down on carjackings amid a rise in vehicle thefts in the District. He told reporters Tuesday that the task force will include specialized detectives to investigate…

The General Services Administration will pursue some renovations at the aging J. Edgar Hoover Building in downtown D.C. as an interim step as it remains unclear whether the Biden administration will restart the search for a consolidated…

A number of noteworthy developments in the Shaw area delivered last year (accounting for roughly 600 new residential units and a Whole Foods), and some of the larger projects still in the pipeline were covered in UT's Howard University…

Within hours of taking the oath of office, President Biden signed an executive order to advance racial equity within the federal government, citing “the unbearable human costs of systemic racism” and pointing out the additional $5 trillion…

The pandemic may still be raging, but the District’s tourism and events boosters will soon launch a new advertising campaign aimed at luring visitors back to D.C. over the coming months.

A former D.C. mayor said on Tuesday that the retail, leisure and hospitality industries will need creativity to recover from the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

New coronavirus variants are cropping up across the U.S. — including in the D.C. region.

After a popular cosmetology teacher died from complications related to COVID-19, the Washington Teachers’ Union filed a complaint against D.C. Public Schools on Tuesday, alleging the school system violated health and safety protocols at…

One of D.C.’s most consistent cash cows has been a lot less productive during the pandemic.

Over the past two years, D.C.’s go-go scene has grown from a hometown music genre into a key element of local social justice activism. Go-go bands have performed at some of the biggest rallies and marches in recent history, from the…

A new bill aims to help victims of violent crime in D.C. both financially and emotionally.