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There hasn’t been a Republican on the DC Council for almost a decade, and Michael Bekesha wants to change that. Running his long-shot campaign from a rented desk at a WeWork near his home in Navy…

Truancy is on the rise in both traditional public schools and charter schools in D.C., which has city officials taking a closer look at transportation. Some educators say that transportation issues…

WASHINGTON — Sara Polon, who started fresh soup company Soupergirl with her mother Marilyn in 2008, will appear on ABC’s “Shark Tank” on October 21. Polon, a former stand-up comedian, has grown the…

Five members of the D.C. Council sent a letter to Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday afternoon, urging her to restore funding cut from 10 community-based organizations (or CBOs) that provide housing…

Thomas Hollowell was a grandfather, a husband and a Smithsonian museum employee. And during the Thursday evening rush hour, his grandchildren, wife, co-workers, friends and strangers — more than 250…

D.C. lawmakers have long complained that residents of the nation’s capital pay federal taxes and serve in the military yet are denied self-governance because they lack a vote in Congress. But on…

In an unprecedented move, a D.C. developer padlocked long time business, including a daycare, with just a one day notice on Thursday. The sudden shutdown came just four months after 1100 Eastern LLC,…

When thinking about what she may have lost in the fire that destroyed much of her apartment building, Ruth Rorls’s mind goes straight to the box on the tall bookshelf. It contains an American flag…

The D.C. Council Judiciary Committee unanimously voted Thursday to advance a bill that would decriminalize fare evasion on Metro, reducing the possible penalty to a $50 fine. The bill was originally…

Earlier this year, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine negotiated that Sanford Capital would divest its real estate holdings in the District by December and stay out of the city for the next seven…

In what may have been their final meeting, members of Metro’s Rider Advisory Council say their voices are invaluable and will fight the Metro board’s anticipated decision to eliminate the volunteer…

A recently released study of Census data tracks where upward mobility is most likely to be enjoyed by a child born into various circumstances. For the District of Columbia, some of those results may…

On Tuesday, D.C. officials will ceremonially début a new family homeless shelter at 5004 D St. SE in Marshall Heights as part of the plan to close and replace the derelict D.C. General shelter. The…

Two large developments planned in D.C. could get a significant financial boost with the approval of two pieces of recently introduced legislation that would provide the projects with more than $100…

After Areeg Abu El Hawa and a friend were hit by a car while in a Tenleytown crosswalk, all she could think about was her suddenly numb arm. She is studying medicine with dreams of being a surgeon.…

Sexist slurs referring to female dogs and prostitutes, with a few letters replaced by asterisks. Crude references to bodies and sex. Cracks about racial and ethnic groups. Those were some of the…

On the day that Christine Blasey Ford described her alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh and testified about his “uproarious laughter,” Jessica Raven was compelled to…

Just four months after District voters approved an initiative to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers, the D.C. Council voted to overturn it. It might seem like an odd fate for Initiative 77,…

Ronald Mason, president of the University of the District of Columbia, is once again the highest-paid person on the District payroll, according to data provided by the city and compiled by the…

Metro’s leaders have said publicly that they have no clear solution to the system’s ridership decline, but an internal document dated May of this year shows otherwise; it lays out a detailed plan for…