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The chemical giant Monsanto will pay the District of Columbia $52 million dollars, as part of a settlement over toxic contamination in D.C. waterways. It’s one of the largest environmental…

The world has changed since D.C.’s social studies standards were created 14 years ago.

As school systems continue to figure out how or whether to welcome back students for on-campus learning this fall, a DC private school is taking to the parking lots.

Fifty-seven years to the day after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his soaring “I Have A Dream” speech on the Mall before hundreds of thousands, his oldest son will join civil rights leaders and the…

The television news cameras are gone, along with the T-shirt vendors, tents and free hot dogs. The swelling crowds of protesters who inspired the birth of Black Lives Matter Plaza in downtown…

Local bands can use all the accolades they can get to boost recognition these days.

Unemployment rates remain near historic highs and they continued to fall in 42 states and the District of Columbia in June. During that month, D.C., Maryland and Virginia regained tens of thousands…

Antonio Ferraro is the owner of Napoli Pasta Bar in Columbia Heights, a Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand-honored restaurant that got creative to survive during the coronavirus lockdown.

As the chairman of the Mid-Atlantic board of governors for the American Association of Advertising Agencies and the CEO of MDB Communications headquartered in D.C., I have seen my share of economic…

ANXO, Seven Reasons, and Thamee are experimenting with how to provide their employees with higher wages and more robust benefits.

As the Washington region tries to pull out of the most severe economic slump in most of our lifetimes, the biggest challenge is defeating the novel coronavirus so our work lives can return to…

One person has died and eight others were injured after a shooting in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Northwest D.C. Sunday.

At least one man was fatally shot and eight other people were injured Sunday afternoon when three heavily armed men opened fire on a busy street in the Columbia Heights area of Northwest Washington,…

World Central Kitchen, the relief group founded by the DC chef, has become a wunderkind of humanitarian work and a darling of the disrupter power set. And it happened almost by accident.

On June 20, 15 days after Mayor Muriel Bowser named a portion of 16th Street NW in front of the White House “Black Lives Matter Plaza,” a Black man who reportedly struggles with schizophrenia and…

D.C. announced it will shut down its coronavirus testing sites on Monday because of “dangerously hot temperatures.”

Coronavirus testing at D.C.-run sites will be called off Monday due to high temps, city officials said.

With health experts in agreement that wearing a face mask helps slow the spread of coronavirus, the ACLU’s D.C. branch penned an open letter to Mayor Muriel Bowser asking her to make masks mandatory…

With temperatures expected to peak in the upper 90s today and early next week, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has activated the city’s heat emergency plan through Wednesday.

The U.S. flag flew at half-staff, a woman hung her head over a cardboard placard, and on a street corner, a man shouted, “This is for you, John Lewis,” before singing “Stand By Me.”