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Good Tuesday morning. If you need free or cheap mental health care in DC, qualify for Medicaid, and can dial a 1-888 line, you’re in luck. There are 40 certified mental health providers, thanks to the District government.

The government shutdown at the start of the year got private museums off to a hot start. With all the Smithsonian Institution museums closed for more than a month, tourists flocked to the region's private museums, including the Newseum and…

Nearly half of Washingtonians in the city’s poorest neighborhoods say they or someone they know has been threatened with a gun or shot in the past five years, a Washington Post poll finds.

Students trying to get to class in DC face violence and a plethora of obstacles and delays—and children, parents, and teachers say that needs to change. On November 14, the DC Education Coalition for Change (DECC) gathered top agency heads…

"I've turned down jobs to stay loyal to this company and this is how they repay my loyalty."

D.C. neighborhoods plagued by crime will soon have more eyes on the streets.

The project has 100 sites, including the Martin Luther King Jr. Library and Barry Farm

The city will invest $5 million into at least 140 new closed circuit television security cameras in areas of the city experiencing high crime rates, the mayor announced at a press conference on Monday.

Clarence Venable was learning the skills city officials hope will help curb D.C.’s climbing homicide count when he was gunned down in Southeast on Friday.

District Anchor, the bar that replaced the decades-old Dupont Circle mainstay Rumors in 2016, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization — and has no plans to shut its doors.

This spring, DCRA Director Ernest Chrappah disclosed plans for an initiative that would train DC residents to do on-demand building inspections. That program is now in full swing.

When the Department of Transportation moved into its Capitol Riverfront headquarters in 2006, the neighborhood would have been barely recognizable to those who work there today. Read more at:…

The Washington Post announced it was shutting down its free daily paper, Express, less than 24 hours before the final edition came out on September 12. More than two months later, the contract workers who distributed the newspaper each day…