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If D.C. government agencies had done what they were supposed to do — i.e., their jobs — it is more than likely that two people who were killed in a rowhouse fire, including a 9-year-old boy, would still be alive.

Two weeks ago, DC Public Schools and the D.C. Public Charter School Board released student test results for the past school year. There was a tremendous amount to celebrate in the release. Across the board, student achievement is up.…

District residents will soon be able to get the overdose-reversing drug naloxone for free at select pharmacies starting Saturday, International Overdose Awareness Day, as part of a pilot program.

Corbett Price, the last principal member of D.C.’s delegation to the Metro board, resigned today in a letter to Mayor Muriel Bowser.

The overdose-reversing drug, Naloxone, will soon be available in all eight wards of D.C. for free. It’s part of the initiative, LIVE.LONG.DC., that Mayor Muriel Bowser introduced last year to address the opioid epidemic in the District.

A car crash on Benning Road followed by an assault on the victim of the crash is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police Department as an anti-transgender hate crime, according to a police report.

The project at the Dupont Circle and Farragut North stops has taken years

Key hotel metrics show the D.C. market has struggled this year amid a continued supply boom, and the negative numbers have not stopped hotel developers from launching new projects that will add thousands of units to the market. 

If Karen Collins doesn’t get to the Thrive DC computer lab right when sign-ups open in the morning, she says she will probably have to wait until the next day to use one of the six publicly available desktops.

D.C.’s Roofers Union bar and Atlas Brew Works have collaborated on a new Adams Morgan Festival IPA, and starting Sept. 8, the beer will be available throughout the neighborhood.

Cooler air is now circulating in the Farragut North and Dupont Circle stations after more than four years of problems with the cooling system.

It’s been nearly ten years since the public has had regular, after school access to a city-owned field in Georgetown. And, as of now, it will be ten more before they have it again.

Is it acceptable to residents of the District that their government might decriminalize the sale of the bodies of women and men, many of them transgender, to satisfy male desires?

Corbett Price resigned Friday as the District’s second voting Metro board representative, following growing demands for his ouster over his attempts to conceal an ethics violation by D.C. Council member and former Metro board chairman Jack…

Three decades after the District was dubbed the “murder capital” of the United States for its crime-ridden streets and soaring homicide rate, the city has earned a new distinction in a report released this month: one of the safest large…

The D.C. Housing Authority says it needs an additional $45 million to $50 million a year for the next 17 years to shore up the District’s public housing stock, with plans to redevelop or completely overhaul 14 complexes around the city.

The traffic changes are needed to repave the road, the city says

Said Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) in a statement following news about the deadly fire that ravaged an illegally rented rowhouse in Northwest D.C., “The District will not tolerate landlords who prey on vulnerable populations, operating…

WASHINGTON (AP) — E-cigarette giant Juul Labs is facing mounting scrutiny from state law enforcement officials, with the attorneys general in Illinois and the District of Columbia investigating how the company’s blockbuster vaping device…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has created a new office that will serve as a liaison between D.C.’s government and artists. The Creative Affairs Office is the newest addition to the existing list of agencies and programs that engage with the…