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District officials have touted increased test scores and rising enrollments as signs of improving schools. But, even though our schools have improved, we remain in an educational crisis.

Residents in short-term family housing at the W.J. Rolark Building in Southeast D.C. say they are living without heat. WUSA9 was the first to report the news.

Some of the most controversial development decisions the D.C. Housing Authority is making have to do with its own headquarters. The authority is the landlord for thousands of public housing residents in the city, and it administers a large…

New development sites in Shaw and Congress Heights will soon hit the market as D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser looks to spur the creation of 36,000 new housing units in the District by 2025.

D.C. officials are looking to push forward a new phase of development on the 180-acre St. Elizabeths East campus, with a heavy focus on adding new commercial space and bringing daytime activity to the Congress Heights property.

Rock Creek Park runs from Lake Needwood in Maryland — where it is Rock Creek Regional Park — to downtown Washington, where it is a national park. It’s an oasis of forest and hiking paths and, of course, the creek itself, which runs through…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is calling on the D.C. Council and every city housing agency to line up behind her goal to build thousands of new housing units over the next five years.

Andrea Goldstein said she was sexually assaulted at the Washington D.C. VA Medical Center four months ago. This week, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs publicly called her claims “unsubstantiated,” sparking a backlash from veterans who say…

TGIF! Attorney General Karl Racine joined counterparts yesterday from 13 other states and New York City to sue the Trump administration over plans to cut food stamps.

A D.C. woman was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday in an embezzlement scheme that siphoned money designated for at-risk tenants in the District run by a program overseen by a charity.

Marcus Goodwin, a D.C. real estate developer working on the Benning Market project in Ward 7, among others, will run for the seat on the D.C. Council being vacated by Councilman David Grosso, I-At Large.

Fatima Miller has long impressed her friends with her cooking — everything from first-course cheese plates to decadent desserts. She wondered whether there might be more fans of her cooking, perhaps some who might even pay for it.

Any reporter, activist or elected official in the Wilson Building knew the drill: once D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) got to talking, it was only a matter of time before he mentioned how long he had been in office.

Two D.C. police officers said blowing the whistle on things they saw inside the department led to “severe” retaliation. And they have taken their allegations to the D.C. Council.

On the same day the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority approved the findings of a Metrobus service improvement initiative, the Metro board moved ahead with an item that could cut a few dozen bus routes.