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But math proved more difficult, and the achievement gap persists

A young girl and her grandparents visiting the Kennedy Center scored front row seats to an unexpected adventure Sunday: being hoisted out of stranded elevator.

The retired college professor remembered the D.C. firefighter dropping into the stalled elevator in the District on Sunday and saying, “This is not going to be pretty.”

The daily countdown to the start of school has reached single digits — and Digital Pioneers Academy is in shambles. Desks are buried in soot. Newly installed floors have been ripped up. A stench of smoke and cleaning chemicals lingers in…

RESIDENTS OF the District of Columbia deserve protection from the most violent criminals and to be confident those offenders receive prison sentences commensurate with the gravity of their crimes. A bill pending in the D.C. Council would…

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Washington, D.C. Council member Brandon Todd about the federal government's plan to build shelters for unaccompanied migrant children in the District.

How did we end up here? I have a theory.

Dwayne Lawson-Brown couldn’t find a home in his hometown.

Major changes are coming for drivers on East Capitol Street near R.F.K. Stadium, including a new reversible lane and a lower speed limit.

D.C. music legend Chuck Brown died a little more than seven years ago, but his memory is celebrated year-round in the syncopated rhythm of the music he’s known for pioneering.

There’s another transportation choice for folks who want to travel around D.C. on two wheels. New York-based Revel just launched in the city.

For years, Lot 7 at RFK Stadium had sat as dormant as the abandoned stadium nearby, a 27-acre expanse of decaying asphalt on the west bank of the Anacostia River.

D.C. has begun doling out huge bundles of cash to local political candidates who engage in a new optional campaign public financing scheme. Tallies of tax monies already being distributed to mostly marginal long-shot candidacies are…

In the basement of the newly renovated community center, 9-year-old Akeylah Edwards takes a seat in front of her computer and a small piano keyboard. Hanging on the wall next to her is a large red and pink painting with stickers reading…

With the help of an $800,000 D.C. government grant, several community organizations will soon hit the ground running to ensure all residents are counted in the 2020 census. Their community outreach efforts will focus on so-called…

If you’ve been eagerly-awaiting the reopening of the Washington Monument, your wait is almost over.

ROCK CREEK IS now D.C.’s “dirtiest” waterway and, in a sense, that’s good news. The city’s rivers are getting cleaner, and some areas are often free enough of bacteria for residents to swim in them safely for the first time in many years.…