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Dozens of people marched to Freedom Plaza Tuesday night, chanting “housing is a human right,” carrying candles and lanterns in remembrance of those who died homeless in D.C. this year.

Students and parents from Duke Ellington School of the Arts rallied Tuesday morning to protest ongoing negotiations to give D.C. Public Schools complete control of the hybrid institution’s operations.

At least 77 homeless people have died in the District so far in 2022, according to D.C.’s medical examiner, perishing by intoxication, hypothermia, homicide and other causes as officials and the White House battle a problem entrenched in…

The share of high school graduates increased from about 73 to 75 percent between the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years, officials said

An unlikely group of supporters on the Council sees reason for optimism, but structural issues linger.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday passed emergency legislation dissolving the D.C. Housing Authority’s 13-person board and replacing it with a nine-person alternative that will remain in place for two years to help right the troubled agency. The…

The D.C. Council on Tuesday narrowly voted to temporarily restructure the city housing authority’s governing board amid a contentious public debate on whether problems at the agency could be sufficiently addressed through an emergency…

Arianny Ramirez stares down at a pile of dough resting on a wooden counter. She pushes the strength of her arms into her palms to roll it out thin. Then, she cuts the dough’s edges to make six even rectangles before lining each one with…

On Tuesday morning, dozens of students at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts opted out of their morning classes and instead gathered outside D.C. Public Schools’ central offices in Northeast D.C., protesting a proposed DCPS takeover of…

The brief flirtation with bringing mobile voting to D.C. has come to an end.

The outcome could portend the dynamics on a new, more progressive Council next year.

A D.C. corrections officer has been charged with embezzling thousands of dollars from the labor union representing D.C. corrections employees.

There is a place in Northwest Washington so sparkling and special that the first lady of France made it a point to visit — twice: Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

Before Nathan Brown was forced to move, he could have been seen playing basketball in the parking lot of Temple Courts in Northwest Washington or laughing with his neighbors while they barbecued.

When Nathan Brown and his family left Temple Courts in 2008, D.C. officials promised that they would eventually be able to return to the public housing complex at the corner of North Capitol and L Streets NW — though it would be fully…

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine called the first-of-its-kind settlement a “major victory” for affordable housing in the District

A corrections officer at the D.C. jail is accused of spending thousands of dollars of union funds on a trip to New York where he caught a Broadway musical and an NBA game.

D.C. wants to redevelop the Reeves Center on 14th and U streets NW, someday turning the municipal building into shops, offices, and hundreds of apartments.

Bill Slover asked his wife the other day if she could recall his reaction when he learned that D.C.’s mayor was trying to kick him off the board that oversees public housing for the city’s poorest residents.

On Tuesday, the D.C. Council is scheduled to consider a proposal to create a temporary reform board to govern the authority