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An alternative school that educates some of D.C.’s most challenged students will close at the end of the school year, school officials announced Thursday.

Heavy timber hasn’t been used as a major new office building construction material in D.C. for a century, but a shiny glass and brick office building at Capitol Riverfront will get two additional stories constructed of…

The new institution will make the wide-reaching field accessible to the public.

Happy Thursday. It never looked all that likely, but the streetcar extension to Georgetown has now been “effectively scrapped” by the District Department of Transportation, WTOP reports.

D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee announced Thursday that Washington Metropolitan Opportunity Academy will close at the end of the academic year — the first campus the city has closed in the traditional public school system…

Federal authorities are investigating the conduct and oversight of a firearms analyst for the District's Department of Forensic Sciences, an agency that has come under scrutiny in two other instances for problems with its handling of crime…

Lillie Tucker, a tenant of The Vistas Apartments in Ward 8, went on a rent strike in January to finally get repairs to her apartment. A maintenance worker fixed the bottom lock on her front door, the bathroom light, and garbage disposal on…

The District’s transportation department is officially scrapping plans to build a streetcar line westward across the city and into Georgetown.

D.C. officials and volunteers have conducted the first census of the city’s homeless population since clearing an encampment in the NoMa neighborhood earlier this month.

Last summer, the DC Black Business Task Force called for a study to determine whether the government has been meeting its goals regarding awarding contracts to Black-, minority- and women-owned businesses, as well as to identify potential…

In their appeal to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) for an expansion of anti-violence resources, a collective of youth from city public and public charter schools have relied on their experiences and memories of friends who lost their lives as…

The annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Walk and Parade in D.C. on Monday exceeded expectations as the son of the slain civil rights icon and his family walked through Southeast with Mayor Muriel Bowser and a joyful procession of…

D.C. officials see Starbucks’ decision to open its first D.C. drive-thru shop at Skyland Town Center — and another location in Anacostia — as clear evidence that their efforts to push retailers east of the Anacostia are bearing fruit.

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson said Wednesday that he is “absolutely not” satisfied with the District’s top procurement officer’s reasons for the increase in late contracts requiring retroactive approval by the council.

If you worked at the District Building in 1980, you may have paused one day, lost in thought, as the elevator doors opened, only to look up and see that a woman seated at a table had just pointed a camera at you and pressed the shutter…

The United States Conference of Mayors’ Winter Meeting is taking place in DC this year, and presidential candidate and former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg spoke at the event Wednesday. After telling the crowd “The truth is, I’m hoping to…

Hundreds of mayors convened in the nation’s capital on Wednesday to address the challenges facing their communities, with the issue of gun violence top of mind.