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In Philadelphia and Chicago, school librarians looked with dread as their positions were slashed. Now, librarians in the District are fighting to make sure the same fate does not befall them.

Two D.C. Council members are introducing a resolution supporting the creation of a civilian oversight body for Metro Transit Police.

D.C. Council members want Metro to create a civilian review board to investigate claims of abuse, selective enforcement and excessive force by its transit police officers.

The music stopped as the mayor made her way across the stage, past bongo drums and keyboards, timbales and amps.

A development that would add nearly 400 units to Northeast D.C.'s Brookland neighborhood appears to be moving forward.

Andrew Huber parks himself at Kitty O’Shea’s pub most Monday nights. He usually has a meal and some drinks. But while most patrons end the evening with a tab, Huber walks out with $40 in his pocket.

Union employees of D.C.-area Safeway grocery stores could strike as soon as next month as contract negotiations with Safeway parent company Albertsons have reached an impasse, according to United Food and Commercials Workers Local 400.

Thousands of Safeway workers are ready to strike if they don’t get what they consider a fair contract by March 5. If a deal isn’t reached, Safeway stores across the D.C. area could be forced to close.

After more than three months of renovations to its colossal Great Hall, the National Building Museum in Penn Quarter will reopen on March 13, museum officials said Wednesday.

The union representing thousands of Giant and Safeway workers in the region has announced that it reached a tentative contract agreement with Giant late Tuesday night, after more than five months of negotiations. Marc Federici, president…

Happy Wednesday. The District's urgent need for additional affordable housing comes up frequently, but a related matter — ensuring safe living conditions in existing units — isn't raised as often.

D.C.’s homegrown music genre, go-go, is about to become the official music of the District.

Representation matters. If it didn’t, those in the seat of power wouldn’t fight so hard to keep others out. We have seen first-hand what it can do, and what it means to have it be taken away.

The District expects to begin work in the spring on the reconstruction of Franklin Park, a National Park Service-owned square block of downtown D.C. that has fallen into disrepair — but one that city officials have long envisioned as a…

Warmer weather has left some with a feeling that spring could be coming to the D.C. region weeks ahead of schedule — and with March around the corner, all eyes are on the National Mall’s beloved cherry blossoms.

“We’re just trying to be somewhere major and bring that Chocolate City feel back to the D.C. area."