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A 9-YEAR-OLD girl was shot Monday afternoon in Southeast D.C. Police believe the girl, who fortunately did not suffer life-threatening injuries, was the victim of a stray bullet. Four days earlier in Northwest, a 12-year-old boy was shot…

Students from low-income D.C. families are falling further behind their more affluent classmates during the prolonged school closures, according to a study released Thursday examining fall assessment data of students in traditional public…

Angela Merkel won’t ever be president of the United States. She’s German, after all. Neither will Dwight Eisenhower or Abraham Lincoln serve again (newsflash: they’re dead). Nor will the Dalai Lama, Pope Francis, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck,…

About 100 vehicles bearing memorial posters honoring gun-violence victims are set to conduct motorcades through D.C. later this month. On both Christmas and New Year’s Eve, participants will head to the Metropolitan Police Department…

Facing a lawsuit from the Archdiocese of Washington over rules prohibiting large gatherings — including Christmas services — during the coronavirus pandemic, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser issued a late-night order Wednesday modifying the…

Fewer elementary and middle school students in the District are on track to pass standardized exams in math this academic year and literacy has dropped significantly among the city’s youngest learners, according to a study published…

Jason Blackson drove across the nation’s capital on a recent Sunday to solve a puzzle.

Searching for clues about where coronavirus hot spots are in the nation’s capital is a dirty job.

The Union Station Redevelopment Corporation and Amtrak, the two proponents of a multibillion-dollar expansion of the District’s historic rail station, are urging the federal government to amend key aspects of the project that have been…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser eased attendance caps for religious gatherings Wednesday after the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington sued the mayor over attendance limits introduced amid the recent surge in coronavirus cases.

Douglas Development Corp. is selling one of its prime downtown D.C. office buildings, located at 1000 F St. NW.

After months of teetering between unemployment and work, Reyes Ramos realized he needed to go back to school.

The District shut five school buildings this week after multiple children and staff members tested positive for the coronavirus, though officials say they have so far seen no evidence of spread in the city’s school buildings.

Some restaurants are keeping their outdoor spaces open tonight.

As economic pressure tightens on both renters and landlords in the coronavirus pandemic’s ninth month, a court ruling Wednesday struck down a key provision in the District’s plan to keep renters safe from eviction.

A judge in D.C. Superior Court ruled Wednesday that the District’s ban on new eviction filings during the pandemic is unconstitutional. While the decision does not allow actual evictions to take place, it does pave the way for landlords to…

The Michael A. Stoops Anti-Discrimination Amendment Act, named after the homelessness advocate and board member of Street Sense who died in 2017, stalled out in the D.C. Council for the second time as the last legislative meeting of the…

With the first COVID-19 vaccinations underway, the District’s homeless community is near the top of the list of people to get the vaccine, according to a draft plan published by the D.C. government in late November.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday, Dec. 15, voted unanimously to give final approval of a bill that bans the use of the so-called gay and transgender panic defense in criminal trials.

As more community-based organizations and mutual aid networks pop up across D.C, one group continues the struggle for housing justice they began two years ago.