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For the past several months, the D.C. State Board of Education has been drafting a new set of social studies standards for the city’s 96,000 students, an exercise that hasn’t been done since 2006.

D.C.'s public school system is under fire after awarding multimillion-dollar contracts to food service and other vendors, repeatedly flouting a city law that requires approval from lawmakers.

On a February morning, a 54-year-old resident of the McPherson Square homeless encampment shuffles around her tent, grabbing wrappers and dropping them in a nearby trash receptacle. She doesn’t feel comfortable coming out at night, when…

The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is launching a reality television program called The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist that will air on MTV and the Smithsonian Channel this spring.

Union organizers at Union Kitchen locations in the D.C. region have settled a dispute with the food accelerator and retailer, which officials said had engaged in union-busting tactics outlined in an extensive complaint last fall.

Congress is closer to overturning a D.C. law for the first time since 1991, after the House on Thursday approved blocking controversial reforms to the city’s criminal code. And Mayor Muriel Bowser might be fine with that.

Staffing shortages are hampering efforts to house the dozens of people living in the District’s largest homeless encampment, as the National Park Service readies to shut down McPherson Square at the city’s behest on Wednesday.

The Republican-led 118th Congress blocked floor privileges to D.C. Mayor Bowser, other leaders of color who govern 4.3 million U.S. citizens

Advocates believe officials are rushing ahead with the clearing instead of taking the time to help house the camp’s residents.

Mayor Muriel Bowser has appointed Linda Harllee Harper as the Executive Director of the Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement. She will take on the new role while continuing to lead a separate department: the Office of Gun Violence…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Thursday that she is shaking up the organization of her public safety agencies, putting the Office of Gun Violence Prevention and the Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement under a single…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House has launched the first salvo in what could be a long-running feud with the District of Columbia over self-government in the nation’s capital.

The Republican-controlled U.S. House flexed its power over D.C. on Thursday in voting to block a pair of local bills, with support from dozens of Democrats as well — the curtain-raiser this session in a long history of congressional…

The Republican-led House of Representatives on Thursday approved two measures that would overturn a pair of bills passed by the D.C. Council, one that allows non-citizens to vote in local elections starting in 2024 and another that revises…

The workers at more than two dozen local farmers markets run by the nonprofit FRESHFARM have unionized with United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400.

A new study from the Urban Institute shows a decline in Black homeownership in wards 7 and 8, home to nearly half of D.C.’s Black residents.

Wards 7 and 8 east of the Anacostia River have long been majority Black communities, but the percentage of Black homeowners is decreasing, according to a new report from the Urban Institute. Meanwhile, researchers found that mortgages…

A moment of silence for a mechanic who died while trying to protect passengers from a gunman at the Potomac Avenue Metro Station preceded the announcement of a collaboration between D.C. police and Metro to increase law enforcement…

D.C. police will soon start patrolling five Metro stations in the District to augment the transit police force that is struggling to protect the region’s vast rail and bus system from rising violent crime, officials announced Wednesday.

Late and no-show buses have caused students to miss class time and have left families frustrated, scrambling and not knowing what to expect one day to the next