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Happy Monday. DC charter schools want the city to give up its vacant school buildings. But the sector’s advocates and the Bowser administration don’t agree on something fundamental: the number of vacant buildings that exist in the city’s…

D.C.’s restaurant scene is mourning the death of Bob Kinkead, the beloved and exacting chef who helped nurture much of the region’s culinary talent through decades running places like 21 Federal, Kinkead’s and Colvin Run Tavern.

It’s a confusing cluster of ­leases and subleases.

The students, carrying signs that read “I charter schools,” packed the sprawling auditorium at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. More than 1,000 children and teachers left school midday last month to attend a…

With a map in hand and an app on his phone, Jarad Schofer is taking the concept of a jog through the city to a whole new level: He plans to run every road and alley in the District.

Several former D.C. officers with the Metropolitan Police Department have filed a lawsuit alleging it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by forcing them to retire for mental or physical injuries they developed while on the job.

“We’re going to have to be conscious of the wind,” Mark Segal said to the group gathered atop the Mendota, a luxury co-op building in Kalorama.

(CNN) — A high school football captain and advocate against gun violence from Washington, DC has landed offers from 25 universities, including Ivy League schools and full-ride scholarships.

Above a huddled mass of rain jackets, ponchos and umbrellas, a statue of the Virgin Mary, adorned with pink, white, yellow and red flowers, glowed.

A man was fatally shot Saturday morning in an area of Northeast Washington that has experienced a spate of recent gun violence. It happened just as a D.C. Council member was headed to a violence prevention meeting not far away.

The city tried for years to suppress the sound from the streets but in 2020 will finally give it official recognition

Two important events happened in Steve Pappas’s life on March 6, 2015: His daughter turned 6, and he ended his career as a D.C. police officer.

More bus lanes are in D.C.’s future amid a region-wide push to get buses out of traffic and improve rider experience, while also encouraging more commuters to use mass transit.

Ward 7 residents have long complained about the lack of fresh food options available to them, but city, business and neighborhood leaders hope the soon-to-be-built Benning Market in the River Terrace neighborhood will offer some relief.

Whole Foods Market will open a new store on the campus of the former Walter Reed military hospital.