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Earlier this year, all across the city, there was an acknowledgment that we need to do more for low-income students, including homeless children and those in foster care. Nearly half of all D.C. public school students are identified as…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Guard of the District of Columbia is investigating the use of one of its helicopters to make a “show of force” against protesters near the White House, while President Donald Trump is encouraging authorities…

Some of the most striking pictures our photographer has captured of a historic week in our city.

The noise protests, known as cacerolazos, are a way to show support while social distancing.

Two longtime members of the D.C. Council will not be taking seats next year after apparently losing in Democratic primary elections on Tuesday.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser relaxed a citywide curfew on Wednesday after a night of mostly peaceful demonstrations in the nation’s capital to protest the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police.

On Monday night, clashes between police and demonstrators culminated in a particularly intense confrontation on and around Swann Street, and on Wednesday police chief Peter Newsham defended the actions of officers involved.

Dr. Janice Blanchard worries about her commute this week, which takes her past the White House. Police and federal law enforcement are heavy on the roads she drives to the George Washington University Hospital, where she works as an…

One of many memorable photos snapped during the recent protests in the nation’s capital shows a D.C. police officer on a knee, shaking hands with a woman in front of him.

The Small Business Resilience Fund hopes to raise $1 million.

We caught up with Swann Street's Rahul Dubey about the ugly aftermath to his star turn.

D.C. will have a curfew starting 11 p.m. Wednesday, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced at a briefing Wednesday afternoon.

The District will enforce a curfew for the fourth consecutive night tonight, beginning at 11 p.m. and lasting until 6 a.m. tomorrow.

On Monday, a man who traditionally worships on Sundays at the Chapel of the 3-Iron tried to use our church, St. John’s Episcopal Church, as a backdrop. Like a character right out of “Elmer Gantry,” he and a gaggle of flinty-eyed carnival…

The 14th Street Spanish restaurant is asking people to donate and pay it forward if they can

As thousands gathered outside Lafayette Square next to the White House on Tuesday afternoon, kneeling and chanting against police brutality, others set up camp on the outer rim of the masses with packs of water, boxes of pizza and free…

Leaders in the District and Maryland are calling for top elections officials to resign after botched delivery of absentee ballots, and polling places shuttered because of the coronavirus, led to hours-long waits to vote in Tuesday’s…

Shared workspace provider WeWork has temporarily closed two of its locations in the District and pulled staff from other sites in D.C. amid days of protests surrounding the death of George Floyd.

It was an inauspicious start to an election season: Only days after the D.C. Board of Elections announced in late March that it would try and conduct a majority of the June 2 primary by mail, a number of staff members developed COVID-19…

Voters encountered long lines and the National Guard while they waited to vote on an abnormal Election Day.