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THE LATEST scores on standardized tests show the District’s traditional schools outperforming the gains made by the city’s public charter schools. You might think that would rankle the executive director of D.C.’s Public Charter School…

The region’s top prosecutors are announcing a local rollout of a national crime initiative aimed at curbing illegal guns, called Project Guardian DMV.

The death of a homeless man whose body was found this week at Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington may be linked to the recent cold snap and temperatures that have dropped below freezing on some nights, according to authorities.

This week, I received an email announcing that Vivek H. Murthy has endorsed Kishan Putta for the D.C. Council. Thus, a trifecta: I don’t know: 1) who Murthy is, 2) who Putta is or 3) which council seat Putta is seeking.

Law enforcement agencies in D.C., Maryland and Virginia, are partnering under a new initiative from the U.S. Justice Department that seeks to better enforce existing gun laws, state officials announced at a joint press briefing on Friday. …

President Trump’s Washington hotel has fallen well behind competing properties despite continuing to charge among the highest rates in the city, according to financial information provided to potential bidders as his company tries to sell…

The kiosk, at the Takoma Recreation Center, will allow residents to do their own testing.

The Pod D.C. hotel in Chinatown, which was the first for that chain in the city, will switch brands early next year to become the District’s first Motto by Hilton.

More than six months after fare evasion was decriminalized in the District, Metro is still clashing with the D.C. Council over the policy.

Mirabelle restaurateur Hakah Ilhan goes more casual with Brasserie Liberté.

She met with the president and the prime minister, talked transportation and health care with local officials, visited an orphanage and an ancient church, and smiled broadly as a street was christened for her more than 7,000 miles from her…

The investigation into ethics allegations against D.C. Council member Jack Evans released by the council last week provided fresh details about his dealings with a digital sign company at the heart of several probes into whether Evans used…

Teachers, staff, and management at one campus of the Mundo Verde Bilingual Public Charter School in D.C. have agreed on a tentative union contract, putting the popular school a vote away from becoming the first charter school in the city’s…

Green today. Gone tomorrow. With the blast of Arctic air on Tuesday night, and temperatures crashing into the 20s, the foliage on ginkgo trees didn’t stand a chance.

Seven Reasons, 14th Street’s pan-Latin eatery, snagged the top spot on Esquire’s 2019 list of best new restaurants in the country.

Esquire Magazine’s 2019 list of the Best New Restaurants in America puts D.C.’s Seven Reasons, the Venezuelan restaurant on 14th Street, at the top of the list.

Whitman-Walker will establish a new health center at St. Elizabeths East as part of the District's bid to revitalize the Ward 8 campus and, its leaders hope, attract more of a health hub in a part of the city that sorely needs one.

Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III revealed more details on the cultural institution's plan to buy part of an office building by L'Enfant Plaza for its new headquarters during a House oversight committee on its space…

“Anything on the tables. Take it,” she announced to the room, after getting everyone’s attention with the golden ping of a Tibetan singing bowl.