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The myth that Woodrow Wilson High School owed its reputation for academic excellence to its namesake, the president who brought Jim Crow to Washington, has been busted. The school has always owed that reputation to its educators.

A joint response to a crash near the D.C.-Prince George’s County, Maryland, border Saturday night prompted an investigation after one jurisdiction’s firefighters accused the other of hindering their efforts.

While some Christmas attractions may be closed this year, window displays and other holiday lights you may not think of are up and ready for the season.

Health officials in D.C. are on a mission to combat the stigma associated with HIV and provide more access to treatment for those who contract the virus.

When the pandemic hit, community colleges expected an enrollment surge. Recessions — a time when the newly unemployed are looking to learn new skills — can be good for two-year schools.

Prosecutors charged a violence interrupter with murder Saturday, claiming Cotey Wynn carried out a 2017 killing in Northeast Washington a year before he was hired to help curtail shootings in the same area.

D.C. officials updated their plan for decreasing the spread of HIV in the city on Friday, furthering a years-long effort to end the epidemic in the District.

Keeping kids warm this winter is the mission of one local organization that is giving away thousands of coats.

The D.C. region’s upward trend of coronavirus cases is beginning to set new records for the area.

Two years ago, when opioid-related fatalities overtook homicides as the District’s leading cause of preventable deaths, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser vowed to cut fatal overdoses in half by this fall.

A D.C. man who works as a violence interrupter in Trinidad was arrested and charged Friday for a killing that occurred almost four years ago.

As if the ZooLights Express truck didn’t encapsulate the essence of 2020 well enough, the 24-foot-long flatbed truck adorned with a lone dancing panda took it a step further by breaking down during its tour of a rainy Ward 3 on Friday…

On an overcast but mild morning in late October, Nathan Harrington pulled up at a dead end in the southern reaches of D.C. His gray pickup truck carried a magnet with the name of the Ward 8 Woods Conservancy — the organization Harrington…

“ABRASIONS AND contusions to the head, face and torso; contusions to the heart and thymus gland; acute abdomen injuries consisting of hemorrhaging of the soft tissue of the abdomen; liver laceration; right kidney laceration; multiple…

A man who worked as a violence interrupter for D.C.’s Office of the Attorney General was arrested and charged for allegedly committing a murder in 2017.

A supervisor for a team of violence interrupters who work to curtail shootings in one of the District’s most dangerous neighborhoods was arrested Friday and charged in a 2017 killing.

On Friday, President-elect Joe Biden said it is “highly unlikely” millions will gather at the National Mall on Jan. 21 for the presidential inauguration.

There are going to be more pro-Trump and MAGA rallies in D.C. on Dec. 12, but they likely won’t be as large as the ones that happened last month, organizers write in their National Park Service permit application.

Facing the worst budget crisis in Metro history, board members on Friday wrestled with how to plan for a half-billion-dollar deficit without proposing draconian cuts that could scare away riders the transit agency desperately needs back.

The District’s public school system is considering eliminating the admission test at the city’s most selective high school, School Without Walls, over fears that the test cannot be administered safely or fairly during the pandemic.