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Metro needs to improve the methods it uses to decide how to spend more than $1 billion a year for capital projects, because it doesn’t fully assess which projects are most necessary for system…

On DC’s MLK Avenue, Where Over-Policing Reigns, King’s Dream Is Far From a Reality for Residents

After a string of school shootings in D.C. in 2000, Hawah Kasat co-founded a local non-profit that could break the cycle of violence and build compassionate, healthy communities through the…

WASHINGTON — The Fort Dupont Ice Arena in Southeast, D.C. and its nationally recognized "kids on ice" program is in jeopardy after the Mayor Muriel Bowser pulled out of a deal to invest $25 million…

As many of you are aware, the Los Angeles Unified School District and Mayor Eric Garcetti recently ended a labor strike by making concessions to the United Teachers Union.

Last year, DC-based architecture firm EL Studio explored what people would like to see in their alleys and the Mount Vernon Triangle (MVT) Community Improvement District (CID) was taking inventory,…

WASHINGTON — The D.C. Fire Department has released video footage of the man they said started a fire inside Comet Ping-Pong last week.

D.C. loves a comeback. And with Kwame "Fully Loaded" Brown's track record of foibles, scandals, slip-ups, and oopsy daisies, there's hardly a better candidate than the former Council chair.

This Northwest neighborhood in Ward 4 is considered one of the city’s largest, though even long-time residents admit that they are not really sure of the boundaries.

"When I finish writing the statement, that cat will move,” promises Deshaunte’ Goldsmith, a sixth-grader at Digital Pioneers Academy Public Charter School. She presses enter on the keyboard and, sure…

Riding the bus helps reduce air pollution and traffic congestion, says Ward 4 Councilmember Brandon Todd

A Ward 8 business owner says he lost a construction bid for the Entertainment and Sports Arena despite a system meant to help local companies.

For two months in 2015, the city tried to get everyone who overdosed into treatment, with promising results. Then it stopped.

Emotions ran high in a room full of people who gathered last December to talk about the spike in homicides in D.C.

D.C. residents and teachers offered some advice Wednesday night to the educator nominated to lead the city’s schools: Listen to us and be a champion for our campuses.

Last year, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and other District officials flew to the West Coast as part of an exploratory recruiting trip to meet with companies such as Netflix Inc., Yelp Inc. and other tech…

On the eve of winter’s coldest punch of the season so far, with temperatures due to plunge to low single digits, two of the thousands of homeless people in the nation’s capital, James Bernard and…

It has long been a favorite talking point for D.C.’s elected officials: 1,000 new people moving into the city every month, making it one of the fastest-growing jurisdictions in the country.

Fans of the International Spy Museum now have a light at the end of the tunnel for when the temporarily shuttered museum will reopen: May 11.

Last June, the Zoning Commission voted for a one-year extension of approval for a development on the vacant lot at the corner of Florida Avenue and North Capitol Street NW (map). Now, as the clock…