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After two weeks of intense outreach and citywide hand-wringing over the future of the homeless campers at McPherson Square, the National Park Service evicted dozens of people from their downtown tents Wednesday morning and arrested two men…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Wednesday that she’s proposing a 5.05% increase in the amount of money allocated for each student in the city’s public and charter schools, amounting to an additional $144 million in funding.

Congressional Republicans are pressing ahead with a legislative effort to prevent D.C. from implementing a new criminal code that would lighten maximum sentences for burglary, carjacking and robbery.

It should have come as no surprise when the House voted last week in favor of resolutions disapproving two D.C.-enacted bills — one allowing noncitizens to vote in D.C. elections and a second revising the city’s criminal code. House…

The National Park Service on Wednesday cleared a large homeless encampment at McPherson Square, despite pushback and calls for a delay from some D.C. lawmakers and numerous homeless advocacy groups.

District leaders say they hope to find housing for the park’s residents, but they wouldn’t accept help from prominent nonprofits.

Divided internally, D.C. Democrats — from the mayor to activists to the business community — have no grand strategy to fight back against this new era of congressional meddling.

More than 70 people living in tents in McPherson Square will be moved Wednesday by the National Park Service, despite pushback from some D.C. lawmakers.

When Taí Alex showed up at Burroughs Elementary School in Brookland earlier this month to drop off her four-year-old daughter, she got some bad news: A gas leak had closed the school for the day. The same happened the day after.

The sergeant shot and killed Kevin Hargraves-Shird last year during a pursuit in the Brightwood Park neighborhood

St. Elizabeths Hospital and a group of patients have settled a lawsuit over the hospital’s mishandling of its October 2019 water crisis and inadequate safety procedures during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser suddenly dismissed the director of the city’s juvenile justice agency late last week for reasons that remain unclear.

DCPS hasn’t been sending a variety of contracts to the Council for review as required, including a school meals deal of interest to parents.

The Anacostia River tends to be better known for urban pollution than for wildlife. But in recent years, some species have been making a comeback around the river — an indicator of the Anacostia’s improving health. Recent photos from…

People trying to stop the clearing of a homeless encampment in D.C. showed up at the U.S. Department of the Interior on Monday to protest.

On Monday, the ribbon was cut on The Ethel, a new a new building in Southeast D.C.’s East Hill neighborhood that will provide 100 units for D.C. residents who recently had no place to call home.

DCPS hasn’t been sending a variety of contracts to the Council for review as required, including a school meals deal of interest to parents.

District leaders Monday cut the ribbon on a new 100-unit apartment building that will offer permanent supportive living for the city’s homeless, two days before the National Park Service plans to clear a large tent encampment in McPherson…

The move upset some juvenile justice advocates, who said they had been impressed with Hilary Cairns’s work

Registered nurses at the George Washington University Hospital are working to form a union, with the D.C. Nurses Association as its bargaining representative, according to DCNA executive director Edward Smith.